with Sharpen Reading

Personalized, Effective, and Fun!
Effective: With our evidence-based, highly effective curriculum your child can improve a grade-level in reading in as little as 3 months. Our integrated progress monitoring personalizes the learning experience to adjust to your child's development.
Easy to Use: Created with parents in mind, our dual-device digital program features flexible, parent-led scripted lessons & video demonstrations that quickly progress your child's reading capabilities and confidence in as little as 15 - 30 min a day.
Engaging & Fun: With over 100+ hours of learning content and 35+ fun digital activities, within a structured program, your child will be motivated to build their core reading skills & confidence at every step of their reading journey.
Effective: With our evidence-based, highly effective curriculum your child can improve a grade-level in reading in as little as 3 months Our integrated progress monitoring personalizes the learning experience to adjust to your childs development.
Easy to Use: Created with parents in mind, our digital program features flexible, parent-led scripted lessons & video demonstrations that quickly progress your child's reading capabilities and confidence in as little as 15 min a day.
Engaging & Fun: With over 100+ hours of learning content and 35+ fun digital activities, within a structured program, your child will be motivated to build their core reading skills & confidence at every step of their reading journey.

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The Science Behind Sharpen Reading
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Answers to Your Questions
A high-quality online program is a result of high-quality and evidence-based research to gather a multi-dimensional understanding of a child’s reading problems. A comprehensive reading system should include multiple elements:
- the instruction is oriented from speech to print (and not from print to speech)
- the instruction is systematic and comprehensive
- the instruction provides ample practice for students to develop advanced skills to identify and manipulate individual speech sounds (phonemes) in words
- the instruction provides ample practice reading extended texts
These elements are explicitly presented in Sharpen Reading.
An online reading program can be especially effective for struggling readers because it can incorporate multi-sensory components (visual, auditory, and kinesthetic/tactile) that can help to better process and retain information, as well as strengthen their reading skills. Additionally, students with learning difficulties such as dyslexia, attention problems, and general cognitive impairments or delays need comprehensive and direct instruction. Carefully sequenced lessons and instructional language that is simple but precise are also very helpful. Sharpen Reading provides all of this. Multi-sensory, structured literacy benefits all students, not just struggling readers, which makes Sharpen Reading a great option for any family looking to support their child’s reading skills.
An online reading program of Sharpen Reading's caliber offers reading instruction that is carefully designed and sequenced to ensure that all relevant skills are being properly integrated in a systematic and structured approach. By utilizing interactive and engaging activities, children remain attentive and the reading experience is more effective. Furthermore, the digital program offers extensive progress and performance monitoring resulting in data-driven insights and records for parents. This data can be used for more tailored instruction and more targeted support for each child.
Tutoring will be available very soon (October 2023)! Sharpen Reading is built in such a way that remote tutors can easily and dependably work to teach children anywhere how to become great readers. Stay tuned for expanded options, including Sharpen-certified tutors, in the near future. Our Tutor Waiting List will soon be opening for those interested in securing a personal tutor for a child.
Sharpen Reading is designed around the principles of the science of reading. Proven to be effective with all kinds of readers, including those with reading problems or dyslexia, Sharpen Reading incorporates research from various disciplines to facilitate the reading acquisition process. Sharpen Reading focuses on four key elements:
- Phonemic Awareness: Understanding that words comprise individual sounds.
- Phonics: Knowledge of the relationships between letters and the sounds they represent.
- Explicit Instruction: Systematic teaching of reading components to nurture proficient readers.
- Varied Practice: Frequent exposure in multiple ways to words solidifies their memory.
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