YOU CAN READ! is the finest video-based, phonics reading tutorial available in today’s market. This complete reading course comes on four videotapes or two DVD’s, and includes 12 sequential, easy-to-follow lessons. It is accompanied by 4 corresponding workbooks with answer keys. The newest version of the product has all the workbook pages on one CD thereby eliminating the necessity for multiple copies of the workbooks. Written and produced by teachers, YOU CAN READ! is an effective tool for children who are ready to learn to read as well as older children and adults who have experienced difficulties in learning to read. Its proven phonetic approach is also helpful for learners with dyslexia or other language related learning disabilities as well as English-as-a-second-language students. Homeschool tutors will love having this program to help them teach and strengthen reading skills. Each lesson builds on the one before it. The program uses colorful graphics and includes plenty of practice words and sentences. The voice of the professional narrator is calm and reassuring, and she often reminds learners to rewind and review. YOU CAN READ! allows learners to progress at their own pace and spend as much time as needed in one area before moving on.
Experts agree that an intensive, systematic, phonetic approach to learning to read brings the best long-term results. While many learners have the innate ability to read words by “sight,” others, particularly those with learning disabilities, benefit from learning to read phonetically because it provides a tool for decoding, or sounding out, words. The ability to take an unknown word apart into syllables is helpful even for fine readers. It’s important to surround new readers with all kinds of reading materials, but YOU CAN READ! will ensure that the basic “nuts and bolts” of the reading puzzle are well in place.
It is said that we retain 10% of what we see, 50% of what we see and hear, and 80% of what we see, hear and do. The YOU CAN READ! program combines sight and sound on the videotapes, and the accompanying 4 workbooks provide the “doing.” These workbooks were carefully designed to correspond with each of the 12 lessons on the video portion of the program. They offer excellent practice and reinforcement to enhance newly learned skills and increase comprehension. The YOU CAN READ! workbooks are unique in that the learner is only presented with words and skills already taught up to that point on the corresponding video. The learner therefore has a high degree of success - and success builds self-esteem.
YOU CAN READ! has successfully sold on national TV and there are many thousands of satisfied customers in homes, schools and libraries across the country and beyond.