Starting in grade 4, poor readers are in deep trouble in every subject, no matter how smart they are. Likely your child was passed from grade to grade, perhaps even labelled with a learning disability. Perhaps he or she has assistance and accommodations to help survive school. But that isn’t much of a preparation for life.
The research is clear – there is nothing wrong with your child. Almost every child becomes a strong, competent reader with proper instruction. But it gets harder with each passing year. Your child is falling farther behind in school and developing self-defeating behaviors. By middle school, poor reading is a hair-on-fire emergency.
You can help your child learn to read, and we’ll show you how. Everything you need is on this website.
The training materials and advice on this site come from the Commnunity Reading Project, a demonstration project helping middle-school (grades 6-8) students with severe reading disabilities. We run pop-up schools and clinics where volunteers teach failed readers using proper techniques.
We follow ‘intensive’ protocols from two well-known interventions Torgesen et al. (2001) and Denton et al. (2006). They show that intensive phonics-based intervention completely cures ‘reading disability’ in almost all students. Unless your child has medical or sensory issues, he or she can become a strong reader.
It is hard work and takes time, but it is not rocket science. The techniques are simple, and we are happy to share them.
This is NOT the place to find assistive technologies for your struggling child. We don’t believe in accommodations and we think that putting a struggling reader into an LD classroom is a tragedy. We believe your child will become a strong reader with proper training, and that is what you must work toward.
Let’s get started.
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