Our Mission Is to Teach Reading and English Language Skills

Learn to Read Well

Everyone needs to be able to read with proficiency. Proficiency means reading with accuracy, speed, expression, and comprehension. Reading proficiency is the cornerstone for academic success. It is our passion.

A student who is not a proficient reader will struggle in school and consistently fall behind. They will fall further behind each year, failing or barely passing. Some react by acting out. Others will just give up and quit school. Either way, they will not achieve their potential.

What's the Secret to Improving Your Reading?

Anyone, regardless of age or reading level, can improve. The secret is in developing phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness is the understanding of how the letters of a written word translate to the sounds of the spoken word. This is the process of reading.

However, reading scientists have concluded after decades of research, that there are five foundational skills required for becoming a proficient reader. Phonemic awareness is merely the first one. The other four are phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.

Our program,7 Sound Steps to Reading is seven systematic, structured, and stepwise lessons, each one building on the one before. Each of the seven steps focuses on one or more of the foundation skills. The program is also self-paced and completely flexible for individualized learning. Every student can work at his or her own speed.

In fact, one of the biggest benefits of our program is the freedom to go at your own pace and move forward or backward as needed. Go forward and back at will to build greater skill and more solid foundations for the symbol/sound relationship. Plus, our program of 7 simple, structured, sound-oriented steps develops a firm foundation for phonemic awareness by the completion of Step 2, which makes phonemic awareness available to even a preschooler.

Why Phonics?

Learning to read through structured phonics is, by far, the best way to learn to read because English words are primarily phonetic, about 85%. Thus, most words can be sounded out even if you have never seen them before. Phonics teaches you the sounds of English words, and you learn a set of rules that allows you to sound out or “sight-read” new words.

Letters and certain combinations of letters create predictable sets of speech sounds. It’s a sort of code. Once you have learned the phonetic “code,” you can figure out most new words. That’s how phonemic awareness works: a reader with phonemic awareness understands the code and can translate letters into their sounds.

Our Reading Lessons Are Easy to Understand

We are not suggesting the process is easy or quick. It takes time and practice. However, at some point, it becomes automatic, like breathing! That's proficiency! How quickly can you achieve proficiency? It depends on where you started from and how quickly you can progress. Everyone is different, but everyone can improve their reading skills using 7 Sound Steps to Reading.

If you have questions, please contact us.