Essential Skills Advantage Review

This article is in collaboration with Essential Skills Advantage. When researching language arts curriculum, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. It seems like there are millions of options to choose from.  Some focus on sight words, others on phonics.  Then there’s grammar and reading comprehension and spelling to think about as well.  It’s enough to make … Read more

Combining the Science of Reading with the Joy of Learning (Logic of English Review)

According to the Logic of English website there is a significant literary crisis in American today. 49% of American Adults cannot read proficiently. Logic of English has created products that help parents and teachers combat this crisis more efficiently.

Reading with Phonograms and Cursive Handwriting (Logic of English Review)

Logic of English offers an approach to reading instruction that is based on the fact that 98% of English words can be understood if the student learns just 74 basic phonograms and 30 spelling rules. It teaches reading, spelling, and writing all at the same time using multisensory activities that appeal to all types of learners. Some … Read more

Online Reading Program and Games for Kids (Reading Kingdom Review 2013)

Reading Kingdom is an online reading course available for use in schools or at home to help teach children to read and help them learn to read better.  It is designed for children ages 4-10 or grades preschool through third grade as well as struggling readers who would read at one of these levels. Members … Read more

Teach Your Children to Read with a Multi-Sensory Decoding Program Review

ABeCeDarian Reading Program is “a research-based, explicit, comprehensive, multi-sensory decoding program.”  It focuses on phonemics awareness, phonics, and fluency. ABeCeDarian is divided into 4 levels. Crew members with young readers have been using the first two levels of the program. Level A is for nonreaders or very beginning readers. Level B is for students reading at … Read more

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