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TampaRead's ReadingKEY
We guarantee your student(s) will make far more progress using ReadingKEY than with the reading program you are currently using. Try ReadingKEY absolutely free! |
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Highly Efficient & Easy to Use
ReadingKEY will not only be the most effective method for improving your child or students' reading ability, but also the easiest to use. It is our unique method for teaching reading that allows for this greatly improved progress. Our strategies are based upon the NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND research stating that vocabulary and fluency (being able to read words easily without hesitation) are the backbone for achieving maximum reading comprehension. Research aside, we believe it simply makes sense that if a child can read words in his/her grade level textbooks easily without hesitation, that comprehension will improve dramatically. Give us a try using our free materials below and you'll see why teachers, parents and entire school districts have purchased ReadingKEY and are saying that we are the most effective reading improvement program they've ever used! - See our unsolicited testimonials at - www.tampareads.com/testimonials)
What makes a When it comes to quality reading instruction - what really makes one reading program better than another? Quite simply, it should based upon how much improvement your child or student will make for every hour of time invested. To determine the amount of "true" reading improvement any student has made, it must be based upon precise Grade/Month reading levels, rather than general statements such as "on grade level" or if a child answered x out of y questions correctly. As a parent or teacher, you want to know real figures that compare your child or students to all other children across the country. Any reading company proud of their results will always give scores based using a Grade/Month format. For example, 2nd Grade 5th month (represented as 2.5 in "teacher talk") means where a child should be reading in the 2nd Grade after completing 5 months of school. There is a large difference between a 2.1 and 2.9 reading level (although both can technically be called "ON GRADE LEVEL") since a 2nd grade student learns approximately 800 new words over the course of the entire school year! Reading test specialists have worked for decades using tests such as the Woodcock-Johnson to accurately determine what level of reading skill a child should be expected to have for each month of each grade. As you can see, reading test scores based on a grade and month are the only accurate way to give you a clear understanding of precisely where your child is reading in comparison to other children. These numbers can also be used accurately for comparing the effectiveness of any reading program. Imagine if one reading program enabled your child to advance from a 3.1 grade level to 3.5 grade level in 3 months (certainly not a bad improvement), however, if another reading program enabled your child to improve from 3.1 to 4.1 in 3 months, you could then easily see which reading program is truly better. By the way, the latter reading improvement score (one year in 3 months) is what you can expect to see when using our Student ReadingKEY Vocabulary Program for 20-30 minutes daily with practically any student (even children with mild to moderate learning problems achieve this level of progress !). Research Based - What is it? ReadingKEY is based upon the latest research as outlined in the No Child Left Behind Act showing that the most important skill for becoming an effective reader is being able to read words correctly and with fluency (often referred to as "word-recognition"). This certainly makes sense since hesitation or incorrect reading of even one word in a sentence can seriously disrupt student concentration and impair sentence comprehension. Unfortunately, many reading programs today still invest large amounts of time using elaborate comprehension based practice methods before insuring students have successfully achieved "word-recognition" for their grade level reading words. Trying to teach a child to comprehend reading material before he/she can read 95% of the words correctly is putting the "cart before the horse" and not only results in slower reading progress, but also increases student frustration and negative attitudes toward school. This issue is especially critical for students who exhibit any form of learning difficulty or handicap.
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After we identified the precise reading words elementary students must know for each grade level, we then took these words and separated them into unique vowel sound groups of approximately 7 words per list. This was done because we found in our 20+ years of research that teaching words together (in small groups) that share the same vowel sound (short i - short a - long a - ou - er - etc) will dramatically improve the rate in which a child is able to permanently memorize (learn) the words - and as an additional benefit, greatly improves a child's spelling skills (since spelling requires knowing which letters to assign to the sounds heard in the word). The 2000+ reading words used in our Grade 1 - Grade 2 and Grade 3 Programs are words used in typical conversation everyday, and therefore, are already understood by the child. Because of this, additional word definition practice is not required until beginning the Grade 4 Vocabulary Program. After trying our program for 20 minutes, you'll see why ReadingKEY really is an immensely powerful reading improvement program and very easy to use. Certainly, the best way to determine the value of a reading improvement program is to try it for yourself. An exceptional reading program should be able to show clear results in a very short period of time. Please take a few minutes to watch a video to see ReadingKEY in action. This way you can quickly see for yourself how easy ReadingKEY is to use and can get started immediately with our free materials.. HOW DO I GET STARTED? STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 STEP 4 Along with the Student Reading Vocabulary Program, we also have excellent vocabulary building worksheets that parallel the same words in the lists as well as a Classroom Program for teachers. For beginning readers, we have excellent materials in our Kindergarten section for insuring the memorization of letter names and consonant sounds (the fist steps in learning to read). Samples of all these additional materials can be seen from the half-circle links below. TRY OUR PROGRAM ABSOLUTELY FREE ! Below you can
download our actual Student Vocabulary Program Materials free of charge and see
for yourself how much faster your child or student will can advance when
compared to other reading improvement methods. Pick a grade level to begin downloading - (downloading can take several
minutes over a conventional phone connection) - choose OPEN to open in your
browser - then print out the sheets and tape along your wall and follow the
simple directions on each list.
To watch a video of the steps used in our
ReadingKEY Vocabulary Program -
CLICK HERE
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After
complete analysis of popular grade level literature and textbooks, we've identified the precise reading
vocabulary words
your child or student(s) must know for each elementary grade (from Grade 1 through Grade 6
and includes over 4000 words in all and approx. 700-800 words per grade). When
your child or student masters the words in any of our grade level lists, he or she will
nearly always score in the top
10% when compared to other students across the country (based upon follow-up
testing with the Woodcock-Johnson test). While the first step in
developing a reading vocabulary program is to identify the grade level reading
words that must be learned - the next step is to teach these words in a manner
that will achieve maximum learning in the least amount of time - this is exactly
what ReadingKEY accomplishes.
