A Truly Innovative Reading Solution

Read Right: 30 Years of Development

Read Right is a Game-Changer for the Reading Field

Can you read the text below?

Aocdcrnig to rseecrah at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mttaer in waht oderr the lterets in a wrod are, the olny irpoamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rhgit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whoutit a pboerlm. Tihs is bucseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey ltteer by istlef. Aaznmig, huh?

               (copied from Learn English: A Lesson a Day website:
                www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/can-you-read )

Click on photos to see video testimonials

If you are an efficient and effective reader, you read the scrambled paragraph with surprising ease. Have you ever wondered how this is possible?

Presently in America, it is believed that the best way to learn to read is through explicit instruction in five basic skills (phonemic awareness, phonics and decoding, word identification, fluency, and comprehension). Yet, too many students are struggling with low-level reading ability (two-thirds—see 20 years of NAEP data at the "proficient" level).

In the Read Right view, this is what excellent readers do:

• Strategically sample the phonetic and other information within text while simultaneously grounding the information in a single question: “What makes sense?”  Examples of the kinds of information that excellent readers efficiently sample: minimal phonics information rather than all (just the most useful phonetic clues); punctuation; clues from the reader's accumulated knowledge of language and how it is structured; knowledge of people, places, things, and how the world works; and more.
• Efficiently anticipate the author's message, rather than focus on each and every word. Our unique methods compels students to figure out how to easily and efficiently integrate strategic information from the text with the student's own knowledge of language and how the world works. Anticipation is what every brain uses to function with efficiency and ease.

Decoding and individual word identification do not work to guarantee comprehension. Read Right is a game-changer in the field of reading because the foundational activity is the construction of meaning—not individual word identification. Rather than "explicit skill instruction," we use "implicit procedural learning"—a very intentional process that teaches the struggling reader to learn to accurately judge their own success with reading. The interactive process requires the reader to make an attempt, fail (failure is an opportunity to figure out what isn't working), analyze the cause of the failure, and attempt again until success is achieved. Implicit procedural learning is what top athletes and musicians use to develop their skills. A musician, for example, spends comparatively little time learning how to produce individual notes and the majority of his time developing excellence with songs. A softball player, rather than focus on moving just one finger at a time, focuses her attention on everything required to throw and catch a ball successfully in the context of a softball game. To achieve excellence, top musicians and athletes set goals and instinctively make attempts, fail, analyze each attempt, adjust the next attempt, and continue to make attempts until success is achieved.

Read Right's highly structured methods coach students to use implicit procedural learning to figure out all of the aspects of excellent reading. By design, the methods cause students to focus on reading that always makes sense, feels comfortable, and sounds as seamless and natural as conversational speech. In this way, Read Right methodology puts comprehension and authentically excellent reading FIRST, not last. Read Right's highly structured system is designed to compel students to figure out every aspect of the reading process.

Read Right methodology is evidence-based, integrating scientific information from reading theory, learning theory, language acquisition theory, cognitive psychology, neural development, and more into a complete and cohesive view of what is required to achieve efficient and effective reading ability. It works because it goes beyond the words on the page, considering instead all that is required for every reader to achieve complex cognitive processing with reading.

Thirty years in development, this comprehensive view has been translated into:

• An effective approach for early reading development (the book Read Right! Coaching Your Child to Excellence in Reading by Dee Tadlock, Ph.D., publisher: McGraw-Hill)
• A well-defined system of small-group instruction for K-3 classrooms (the Read Right Primary Core Curriculum)
• A highly structured small-group reading intervention program for all ages (the Read Right Reading Intervention Program for Grades 3-12, colleges, and adult literacy programs)
• And, the new Read Right Online Tutoring Service, making Read Right tutoring available to everyone virtually every where

Read Right methodology is well tested, with projects implemented at over 500 project sites. Through September 2011, more than 94,000 children, teens, and adults have benefitted from our patented methodology. Read Right has been used successfully with all categories of students, including those enrolled in Title 1 programs, special education programs, English as a second language programs, and with students classified as dyslexic, ADD/ADHD, and learning disabled (autism spectrum disorders, Tourettes, severe stuttering, and Down syndrome). Children, teens, and adults from all walks of life have become excellent readers through Read Right.