Children And Teens
Reading and Spelling Pure & Simple is the most efficient and effective curriculum for teaching reading and spelling to children and teens!
This curriculum provides the tools to teach any child or teen to read and spell with confidence.
Simple
Comprehensive
Solid and astounding results
Based on years of research and successful experience
These lessons work. THEY SIMPLY WORK!
As one Seventh Grade student stated, “I never knew learning to read could be so easy!”
Reading is a foundational and required skill for most school subjects (History, Science, Word problems in Math, English Literature, Grammar). If a student can read with ease and spell with accuracy, everything else encountered will be much easier to explore and accomplish.
Teachers of students who struggle with dyslexia, dysgraphia, autism, ADD, (Attention Deficit Disorder), and other similar learning issues have been thrilled with the progress and enthusiasm generated when using these lessons.
Also, teachers of ESL (English as a Second Language) and ELL (English Language Learners) find these lessons pleasant and effective.
As students progress through the workbooks or the main textbook, your student will be building an incredibly expanded vocabulary and be able to read and comprehend increasingly complex material with ease.
Each lesson’s goal is to have the student be able to read and spell the words without hesitation or stress.
Enjoy as your students become skilled in the English language – one syllable pattern at a time. All the syllables will have been learned when a student completes this curriculum.
There is an excitement when a child or teen discovers how easy it is to become a relaxed and successful reader and speller. Instructors are grateful that they do not have to be knowledgeable in phonics to use these phonics-based lessons.
The lessons are:
- tailored for simplicity and ease of use.
- designed for one-on-one, classroom exercise, or reading group instruction.
- comprehensive and complete (beginner to advanced).
The curriculum is:
- focused on reading, spelling, and comprehension.
- based on low-stress teaching methods and positive reinforcement.
- structured so that minimal preparation time is required of the teacher.
Format is:
- excellent for dyslexia, dysgraphia, autism, ADD or other learning issues.
- enjoyed by accomplished students (Straight-A and A/B).
- perfect for ESL and ELL learners.
Available in online subscription and book form:
- The comprehensive main textbook: Reading and Spelling Pure & Simple: Phonics-Based Lessons for Elementary, Teen, and Adult Students.
- The Reading and Spelling Pure & Simple Word Study Workbooks (book form only).
Adult Literacy
These lessons will open doors for your student: He or she will be able to pass a driver’s license test or required test for employment (police, sheriff, civil service, CDL, …). Your student will be able to start preparing for the GED, find a job, and fill out a job application. He or she will be able to research online the best product or best price for a product and buy a house or car. An adult will be able to read stories to their children and grandchildren, read (and write) letters from family and friends, or just enjoy a good book, magazine, computer blog, or smartphone.
Instructors are pleased that students who are ESL (English as a Second Language) or ELL (English Language Learners) enjoy and find these lessons pleasant and effective. Pronouncing the alphabet letters and recognizing their sounds are intentionally simplified for relaxed learning in this student population. Learning the meaning of the words and hearing them used in sentences makes the learning interesting and successful. To support the instructor’s ability to explain the meaning of the word lists, a student just has to have a dictionary defining English words in their own language (English/Spanish, English/Burmese, English/Vietnamese, …).
Upon finishing all 90 lessons, you and your student together will read aloud and discuss a selected book. Be sure that the material is interesting and challenging. Your student will be able to read and comprehend the material with ease. Often, they are surprised when they can read and understand even complex paragraphs. It is exciting to see them realize the skill that they have achieved.
The goal for each lesson is relaxed and automatic reading of the words—without hesitation or stress by the student. Ask your student if he needs to review a word list or a whole lesson. Enjoy as your student learns the patterns of the English language and expands his reading and writing vocabulary.
Reading is foundational to everything your student will be required to do in life. The further along in the lessons one gets, the better. Remember, you must only complete 90 lessons (77 pages of material) for your student—whatever the age—to read and comprehend almost anything in print.