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7,200+ Confident Readers and Spellers

Grades K-8

Teach reading and spelling like a specialist. No degree required.

Scholar Within gives you the same research-backed methods learning specialists use: structured lessons, daily plans, and progress you can measure.

Start by finding out exactly where your child stands.

Take the $1 Reading Assessment

This is an online assessment with speech detection.
The $1 confirms a parent is setting things up.

Free Assessment

Print out passages and do the
assessment at home.

Scholar Within homeschool reading and spelling curriculum with the Reading and Spelling Box, workbooks, and an online phonics lesson

Reading progress you can see, not just hope for.

Fluent Within is our at-home reading fluency assessment. Your child reads a short passage aloud, and in minutes you get words per minute, accuracy, missed words, and an audio recording you can replay. Every result is saved, so you can watch the trend, not guess at it.

Fluent Within and reading progress tracking are included in our combined Reading and Spelling Program. You’ll also receive reading progress emails to keep you up to date.

Take the $1 Reading Assessment

One-time $1 parent verification. Not a subscription.

Reading Program Info
Reading Results2nd Grade Reading Assessment
On Target
94WPM
Words Read
55
Accuracy
86%
Duration
0:32

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Example assessment results
Learn comprehension strategies with video lessons and graphic organizers

Where struggling readers become confident ones.

The Reading & Spelling Program is the complete homeschool curriculum for reading and spelling: reading fluency drills, reading passages, spelling and phonics video lessons, workbooks, and games, organized into a simple weekly plan. Multisensory, self-paced, and built on the science of reading. 45 to 60 minutes a day is all it takes.

  • Video lessons guide you, so you’re never winging it
  • Works for homeschool or after-school catch-up
  • Grade-leveled from Kindergarten through 8th

Spelling that finally sticks.

Our video spelling program teaches the patterns behind words, not just lists to memorize. Kids learn why words are spelled the way they are, with spelling and phonics video lessons, workbooks, and card games that lock the patterns in. Please note: everything in the Spelling Program is included in the complete Reading & Spelling program.

  • Phonics-based, pattern-first approach
  • Spelling and phonics video lessons, 15 to 20 minutes
  • Grade-leveled from Kindergarten through 8th
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Phonics video lesson, spelling patterns, puzzles, and word lists

Make words. Get points.
Build confident readers & spellers.

Skootch card games turn phonics practice into family game night. Short vowels, long vowels, blends, digraphs, and more, leveled by age from 5 and up. Easy to learn, quick to play, and sneakily educational. The practice happens while everyone’s having fun.

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Building words with Skootch Junior Blends cards

Built by a learning specialist. Backed by research.

Scholar Within was created by Bonnie Terry, M.Ed., BCET, a board-certified educational therapist with 35+ years helping struggling readers become confident ones.
Every lesson, assessment, and game is built on the science of reading: phonics, fluency, and spelling taught the way research says kids actually learn.

Bonnie Terry, co-founder and learning specialist
About Scholar Within, Inc.

Scholar Within was founded by learning expert Bonnie Terry, M.Ed., BCET and design and technology expert Nick Terry. Bonnie Terry is a board-certified educational therapist with over 35 years of experience specializing in boosting kids’ reading, spelling, and overall learning skills. Nick Terry has been designing and building websites for 20 years for companies like Yahoo!, Facebook, Credit Karma, Box, and multiple startups.

Over the past 5 years, Nick and Bonnie have teamed up. They have made Bonnie’s holistic teaching methods approachable and intuitive for parents to be able to do at home with their kids. Bonnie’s teaching methods are brain-based, research-based, and results-driven.

Bonnie started teaching in schools, and in 1990, she opened a private tutoring center. The center quickly grew to her seeing over 70 kids per week.

Parents from all over started asking what it was that Bonnie was doing because of the tremendous results they saw. She realized that there are so many more kids that could be helped by bringing her teaching methods online. Now, parents from all over the world have used her methods and they too have seen tremendous results.

Nick has been able to take what he has learned from working with some of the world’s most influential technology companies and apply them to Bonnie’s strategies to make the programs more cohesive, intuitive, and approachable.

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