How It Works

1. The Basic Code Young Beginners
   This game-based, activity-based first level is for children ages 2-4. You get pre-reading and pre-    spelling fun—learning the critical foundations for fluent reading and spelling later on.
   
   The Young Beginners level has similar content to Basic Code Level 1, but for each and every lesson, the focus is on building age-appropriate pre-reading skills—like hearing sounds within words, speaking sounds clearly, matching Sound Pictures to their sounds and reading letter combinations (that represent those sounds), and most of all, understanding how reading English works best.
   
   You get to immerse your child in literacy foundations—and make it so fun, you grow your child’s desire for more. Students have super-short videos for learning and how to interact with the materials, and parents get guidance to make reading fun and successful from the start
   
2. The Basic Code Level 1: Introducing the Basic Code
   If your child is 4-6 (and up to 8) years old, this game-based, activity-based level is a perfect place to begin. Your child gets the critical foundations of reading—along with learning to recognize letters and their Sound Pictures. Within the first few lessons, your child is reading. The focus here is on immersing your child into literacy excellence—making sure your child has what’s needed to read fast, smoothly, and with 100 percent comprehension.
   
   Students have super-short videos for learning and interacting, with instructions for activities and games at home—and parents get guidance to make reading fun and successful from the start.
   
3. The Basic Code 2: Blends and Fluency
   This level follows directly after the Basic Code 1 lessons. Before moving ahead, these lessons make sure your child masters fluency and reading now.
   
   Making the foundations of reading strong—you help your child to read smoothly, without struggle, and give your child reading practice with simple, easily-sound-out-able words that build your student’s reading confidence. No words are taught at this level that your child can’t sound out and read.
   
   In age-appropriate fun, students have short videos for learning and interacting. You get instructions for activities and games at home—and specific instruction and activities in all of the sub areas of reading, including visual discrimination, auditory discrimination, memory and comprehension, and spelling foundations
   
4. The Combination Code: Level 1
   This level is for students who learned the Basic Code 1 and 2 with True North Reading. It is also for the student age 8-15+ who started learning to read elsewhere—and now you want faster, smoother, easier reading and spelling. If your student is reading but has struggles, this is where your student begins.
   
   With specific instruction, hands-on games, and easy-to-learn activities, everything is “spelled out” for you and your student.
   
5. The Vowel Name Code
   This level is for 8-15+ students who have finished True North Reading’s Combination Code. Here, you’ll move forward to learn and practice all of the sounds for each Vowel Names (A, E, I, O, OO, and EE-OO). In a way that is very different from phonics, your student learns all 11 of the “A” Sound Pictures together, all 10 “E” Sound Pictures together, and so on. This is where your child can jump grade levels in reading, increase vocabulary, raise reading comprehension, and perfect spelling for words using the Vowel Name Sound Pictures.
   
   With specific video and hands-on worksheets, games, activities, and more—you and your student work through grade level learning in reading, spelling, vocabulary, ideation, and comprehension.
   
6. The Imposter Code
   Here’s where your 8-15+ student “goes deep” into the intricacies of “imposters”—those Sound Pictures that stand in the place of the Sound Pictures from the Basic Code and Combination Code.
   
   In other words, your student learns to decode anything with ease.
   
   Learning phonologically, so there are no “rules” or “exceptions” to memorize.
   
   We learn here in the same way that all of True North Reading is presented: In simple, easy-to-remember groups of sounds, with games and activities. How many ways do we draw the /s/ sound? (It’s seven… s, se, ce, sw, st, sc, and ps.) In spelling, what “Imposter” sounds are in the place of vowels? (The vowel sounds /u/, /e/, /i/, and /o/ can be drawn other ways, such as “ai” representing the /e/ sound in “said.”) What’s another way to “draw” the /er/ sound? (It’s “ear,” as in “heard” or “pearl.”)
   
   We learn all of this and more—so reading makes complete sense, and your student has the tools to read anything.
   
   With specific video and hands-on worksheets, games, activities, and more—your student learns higher vocabulary and comprehension, smooth reading, and excellent spelling.

With True North Reading, you get all of this—for all students, for only one price.

And if you need help figuring out what level is right for your child—simply Contact Us, to get the help you need.