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“Can I, as a parent, teach my child to read?” The answer is absolutely yes! With True North Reading, you have everything that you need to teach your child to read exceptionally well—with ease and fun.

“But should I teach my preschool child? I mean, shouldn’t someone else who’s more qualified do it?” With True North Reading, YOU, the parent (or grandparent, or uncle or aunt), are highly qualified to teach your child to read!

Here, you get every single thing that you need, for your child to read well.

“Okay—So at what age should we start?”

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Because reading is such a critical skill for success in school and life, it’s incredibly important to start right away, when your child is a preschooler, toddler, and even infant.

But wait! We’re not talking about teaching infants with the traditional teaching of reading…

We’re talking about pre-reading and literacy immersion—mastering the little parts of reading and language through non-traditional methods of teaching that are based in play. This game-based, fun immersion-style of learning is not how you or I learned to read.

It’s better.

You do not want to sit your young child down in “formal lessons” at a desk, with worksheets (or anything of the sort!). You DO want to begin to give your young child hands-on fun-and-games learning with enjoyment—with everything that’s needed to succeed with pre-reading know-how that, later on, actually speeds up your child’s learning and can increase your child’s reading abilities.

With True North Reading, we’ll show you how.

Right now, it’s all about creating the rich soil where the highest learning for reading takes place—the place where great reading grows in easy, fast, fun games and hands-on play, and where your child can get the best chance at reading well, by…

Knowing each and every sound in our language—So the critical auditory-visual foundation and connection to reading is strong.
Learning how to speak the sound well—So beginning reading is easy.
Seeing (and becoming familiar with) letters before reading—So your child’s mind is primed with the memory of letters’ shapes (and sounds) before he or she is formally taught to read.
Learning the idea that sounds can be “drawn” (represented by letters)—So when word and sentence reading begins, it’s simple and fast.
Understanding right away how reading works—So learning to read can be fast and fun.

You, the parent, are the perfect person to teach your child to read. And with True North Reading, you will have everything that you need, to teach your child to read well.

Start Early

Reading starts at birth—because the sound of our language is where it all begins.

Beginning with sounds—then adding in the mastery of a myriad of wonderful pre-reading skills—your very young child can actually practice the foundational skills of reading right now.

When you start with games and fun that teach the concepts and sub-skills of reading early on, your child is already learning what’s needed to read well. Short play and a game-based, relevant introduction to letters make learning to read easy.

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Now this is important: We’re not talking about memorizing whole words. “Baby reading programs” with whole-word memorization actually hinder your child from reading well later on.

“Baby reading” with whole words can be downright harmful for your child’s future reading. In fact, reading whole words has been called “the worst way to teach a child to read.”¹

That’s right. Whole-word reading programs for babies and toddlers, or what has been called the “look-say method” of reading (ideograms) can damage your child’s reading ability as he or she grows.

There are two reasons why memorizing whole words can damage your child’s reading future…

First, reading is a code—with pieces and parts that make up longer words. If a child learns to memorize whole words, then he or she never really learns the code. And all of us need the code, to read longer words—and to read everything with fluency.

Later on—in upper-elementary, middle school, high school, and beyond—a person who learned to read whole words doesn’t have the skills to decode more complicated words.

Whole-word readers guess at words, substitute wrong words, and skip words (“because I don’t know that one”). They most likely become discouraged and don’t like reading—because they weren’t taught how reading works—and weren’t given the tools to decode each and every word in the English language.

Second, we (as humans) can only memorize so many whole words. Then, as we near our “word memorization limit,” our brain struggles to remember visual differences. The result? Readers start substituting words that look the same… or they don’t read the word at all.

Beginning readers “mess up” words like pen and pin.
Early elementary kids confuse words such as blink and bland.
Older readers misread vanguard and vanquish.
College students struggle with reading in the sciences, humanities, and other disciplines, struggling to read the words that the student has never seen before—and not being able to, because of a lack of decoding ability.
And adults of all ages stop trying to read the back of medicine bottles or books above the 8^th grade level—because they were taught to read with memorization and never really learned how to decode.

What’s important is this: Correct, successful reading all begins with your little preschool child.

Starting early with pre-reading skills and literacy immersion isn’t only a good idea; it’s critical to make reading easy and successful for your child.

Beat The Statistics

NOW is the time to learn to read the right way—because the greatest amount of brain growth occurs in your child between birth and age five, and your child’s mind is open and joyful toward learning in a way that it will never be, later on. In fact, by age three, roughly 85% of the brain’s core structure is formed—so mastering pre-reading/literacy skills right now can be critical to your child’s success.¹

But that’s not all. If your child learns to read like most other kids, the statistics are stacked against your child.

Two out of three 3^rd graders in the US aren’t reading at grade level.² That’s a serious statistic—one that can be a serious problem for your child’s future.

You don’t want your child to be a statistic.

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Because the statistics are grim.

Since 1965 (over 55 years), standardized test scores in reading have declined.³In 2006, nearly 40% of all fourth graders in the United States couldn’t read at grade level.⁴And in 2019, two thirds of the children in the United States did not meet the standards for reading proficiency set by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.^{5, 6}

While basic literacy is at an all-time high worldwide, with a majority of countries seeing a rising reading achievement rate in the last decade, the United States (US) reading scores have, on the other hand, declined.⁷

This has been going on a long time.

And there are more grim statistics.Twenty-five percent of young adults lack the basic literacy skills needed for a job. Sixty percent of adolescents who abuse drugs also have a reading problem. Seventy-six percent of children residing in poverty cannot read at a proficient level. And more than 60 percent of young prisoners are functionally illiterate.⁸And the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that 50 percent of U.S. adults can’t read a book written at an eighth-grade level.⁹

Reading well is more than important; it impacts all of life.

When your child learns to read well from the start—with tried-and-true methods—you can ensure that your child beats the statistics—to become someone who reads fast, smoothly, and with 100% comprehension.

Start early with pre-reading skills and literacy immersion—because it can be a deciding factor in your child’s life-long success.

References*
¹https://ferstreaders.org/resources/fifty-top-literacy-statistics
²https://patch.com/us/across-america/two-thirds-u-s-4th-graders-are-not-proficient-reading
³ https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED252565.pdf
⁴https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED488870
⁵https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/us/reading-scores-national-exam.html
⁶https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/mathematics/supportive_files/2019_infographic.pdf
⁷ https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/12/05/global-reading-scores-are-rising-but-not.html
⁸https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED540344
⁹https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/pdf/coe_cnb.pdf
¹⁰https://www.wyliecomm.com/2019/03/us-literacy-rate/
*All References were accessed online November 9, 2019.

Make It Easy

True North Reading makes reading easy for little ones.

It’s short: We break ideas down into their smallest parts—So all can “get it”—and no one fails.
It’s fun: We play with ideas—So learning is filled with excitement and laughter.* It’s hands-on: We use our hands, bodies, eyes, ears, and even smell and taste—All the senses, so it’s enjoyable, entertaining, satisfying, and highly memorable learning.
It’s play-based: Never pushed, always prompted—Learning is child-centered.
It’s literacy based: Immersed in story and word-play—We grow our child’s vocabulary and love of language, so that reading in older years is trouble-free, comprehension (remembering what was read) is a breeze, and the larger-picture thinking of reading is mastered in all of schooling.
It’s joy-filled: We let the child lead, for joyful emotions—So the child is drawn to reading.

When we make learning easy, the child’s learning never stumbles—and that momentum carries into a full love of (and skill with) reading well.

Make It Fun

Here at True North Reading, all of your young child’s learning is joyfully wrapped in play—because especially for the young child, play and learning aren’t separate—they’re intertwined.¹

Here, we believe that all great learning involves the joy of play. When your little one learns to read, it’s not a chore; it’s a delight!

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Play is so important to optimal child development, it has been recognized by the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights as a right of every child.^{2, 3}

Play builds your child’s creativity, imagination, dexterity, physical coordination, and cognitive and emotional strength—and with its happy emotions, play also helps your child remember more of what’s learned!

Fun and games help your child thrive⁴ —enriching learning, building self worth, and making learning fun.⁵

That’s why, with True North Reading, your young child learns to read right away through the wonder of play.

References
¹ https://www.naeyc.org/our-work/families/10-things-every-parent-play
² Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Convention on the Rights of the Child, General Assembly Resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989.
³ https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/119/1/182
⁴ https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/toddler/fitness/Pages/Caution-Children-at-Play.aspx
⁵ https://www.naeyc.org/our-work/families/10-things-every-parent-play
*All References were accessed online November 9, 2019.

Never Fall Behind

If you want to ensure your child will never fall behind, then True North Reading for your little one can help make it so.

The statistics above are clear: Most students fall behind.

But your little one doesn’t have to.

By age 2, a child’s brain is as active as an adult’s—and cognitive processes develop rapidly in the first years of life.¹ So why wait?

Here, you get the chance to help your child never fall behind.

Give your child the love of reading now—playing with and mastering the simple abilities of reading—so your child will learn to read exceptionally well.

¹https://www.literacyprojectfoundation.org/30-key-child-literacy-stats-parents-need-to-be-aware-of/#, accessed November 9, 2019.

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Build Confidence

If you want your little one to become a confident reader, then now’s the time to begin.

Here’s why:

When you or I struggle at any task, we don’t enjoy what we’re doing. It’s no fun.

But when we are competent at the task—when we can do it, and do it well (whatever “it” is)—then we tend to love what we do. That’s because when we’re good at something (and it’s not “too hard”), it’s more fun.

We’re good at it. We enjoy being good at it. And we’re more confident because we’re good at it.

Competence builds confidence.

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Many kids dislike (or hate) reading because they simply can’t do it. They can’t do it because they don’t know how. They don’t know how because they were never taught correctly. (Remember—most reading programs aren’t linear, aren’t taught phonologically with research-based methods, aren’t paced well, or aren’t complete—so “not being able to do it” is often not the child’s fault.)

Or, for many young children, the teaching method jumped ahead too fast—without the child getting a chance to enjoy mastering the information (“Mastery Learning”).
We all know that when the first bit of any learning isn’t solid, it’s hard to learn the next bit. Like a house of cards with a wobbly base, learning that’s not solid will, at higher levels, fall apart.

Mastery is competence. Mastery is more fun. And fun competence builds confidence.

With True North Reading, because the learning is correct, simple-tasked, mastery-based, enjoyable learning—your child learns with confidence.

Starting now with True North Reading—before any struggles have a chance to emerge—can give your child the confidence that positively affects all of your child’s learning.

Instill a Love of Reading

Most importantly—you want your child to love to read.

Because when your child loves reading, he or she loves to keep going with learning, to read well. Your child gets better at it. He or she enjoys it… learning more, growing more, having more opportunities for achievement, and (because the positive results snowball and multiply together) your child enjoys more success—in schooling and in life.

With research-based methods of learning that are fun for your little one, your toddler and preschooler can…

Learn phonemes (sounds)
Enjoy visual play with Sound Pictures (letters’ combinations)
Grow vocabulary through games and mapping¹
Use music and rhythm, texture and shape, and movement, and more—tied to reading concepts, to make reading a happy place of learning
Learn with confidence and for highest memory of all that’s introduced
Make the pre-reading pathways strong—and with ease, start to read during the preschool years

Here, we come alongside you to help your child love to read—and learn to read in an easy, fun, relaxed, and joyful place that can give your child a lifelong joy of reading.

¹https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3608655, accessed November 9, 2019.

Because reading is so important, I wanted to make sure that my daughter started out reading right. Thank you so much—in four months’ time, she went from knowing nothing to reading sentences—and enjoying reading—she thinks reading is fun! I recommend True North Reading: The Complete Mastery Reading & Spelling Program to anyone who wants to start his or her child out right.
— Beth, elementary school counselor and mom to a five-year-old daughter

I was a speech-language pathologist before homeschooling my kids (where I specialized in pediatrics) and I love the multisensory approach of your program. The ideas and suggestions for activities in between lessons are exactly what I would have asked parents of my clients do try to when I was in practice as a SLP! It is truly the best program to teach reading that I have come across in my 10+ years of homeschooling.
— J. Peterson

I started out with my four-year-old daughter with True North Reading: The Complete Mastery Reading & Spelling program—and in under six months, she tested at a grade 2.5 level of reading! Amazing!
— Mom to Odessa, in Kalamazoo, Michigan

After just his first year in school, my son didn’t want to read, and his teacher said that he needed help. Now—just two months later—Tristan is happy and smiling and reading words, and he can figure new words out easily. I’ve already told my friends about this program, because it changed our whole outlook on reading for us.
— Michelle, mom to Tristan, age 6

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