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Best Dyslexia Reading Program
A Parent’s Guide to Dyslexia
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Dyslexia impacts 1 in every 5 people.
30+ years of documented, scientific evidence and research show that dyslexia affects 1 in every 5 people. This is 20% of the population. Dyslexia is the most common learning disability as well as the most common of all neurocognitive disorders.
What is Dyslexia? Dyslexia Definition
Dyslexia is a difficulty with the written language.
“Dys” means difficulty. “Lexia” means words.
Dyslexia is characterized by difficulties with word recognition, reading comprehension skills, spelling and decoding abilities, and writing skills.
Many people think that dyslexia is a problem with letter reversals. Confusing b’s and d’s as well as confusing p’s and q’s. However, not all people with dyslexia have letter reversals.
👉 Learn about the 6 types of dyslexia.
Scholar Within’s Homeschool Dyslexia Reading Curriculum
What parents are saying
“The program helped my son with dyslexia a lot for ready fluency. Nothing else had helped.”
– Emmanuelle R.
“My son was diagnosed as dyslexic at the end of 3rd grade… This program is amazing, I cannot recommend it enough!”
– Wendy R.
“Great program, even for an older struggling reader with auditory processing disorder and possible dyslexia.”
– Dr. Kimberly C.
Everything you need to teach reading and spelling to dyslexic kids at home
Step-by-step, online and offline lessons
Carefully selected online reading curriculum
Tap-to-read, online read-aloud technology
Take notes offline with graphic organizers
Offline reading fluency training
Spelling and phonics video lessons and tests
Learn to spell with spelling patterns
Offline puzzles and worksheets
Vocabulary and word-attack card games
Offline planning and time-management
activities
Executive function and mind-body activities
Print at home or get materials shipped to you
Scholar Within’s
Homeschool Dyslexia Reading Program
Online and Offline Self-paced Curriculum
How It Works
Program Overview
Scholar Within’s reading and spelling program takes 45-60 minutes a day and is a mix of 4-6 different activities each day.
Top Program Activities
- Reading Fluency Training:
Improve Reading Speed and Accuracy - Spelling and Phonics Video Lessons:
Learn to Spell with Patterns - Read with Tap-to-Read:
Read with Audio-enabled Reading Passages - Take Notes with Graphic Organizers:
Improve Comprehension and Just Fill in the Blank
1. Train Your Eyes with Reading Fluency Training
How many words can you read in 1 minute?
These simple but effective drills train your eyes to see the differences between letters in words faster.
It’s like going to the gym for your eyes to train them to read faster.
These drills work on strengthening your eye muscles.
How does it work?
You do a practice read and a timed read each day.
The entire activity just takes 5 minutes.
Each day, students compete against the last time they did the drill.
Kids love seeing their progress.
“I repeated the same reading drill on week one and week nine and my 7 year old improved by 24 words per minute and my 11 year old improved by 16 words per minute.”
– Justine F.
These drills focus improve phonics, decoding skills, and fluency (speed and accuracy).
This fluency activity especially helpful for students with visual dyslexia.
- Speeds up visual processing (the automatic retrieval system – Rapid Automatic Naming: RAN)
- Speeds up visual and verbal working memory and processing speed
- Improves reading accuracy
- Improves reading speed
- Improves visual processing skills including visual tracking, visual memory, visual discrimination, visual closure, and visual integration skills
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2. Become an Expert at Spelling with Spelling & Phonics Video Lessons
Our video lessons provide systematic instruction by teaching phonemic awareness, spelling patterns, and decoding skills.
“This is the best spelling program I have used in many years of homeschooling.”
– Emily R.
- Reinforcing phonics skills of the sound symbol association
- Phonological component: phonograms, vowel sounds, vowel combinations
- Blends, compound words, consonant combinations (digraphs), and suffixes
- Auditory processing skills including auditory memory, auditory discrimination, auditory closure, and auditory-visual integration
- Overall listening skills improve
- Teaches the structure of the English language (8 spelling patterns)
- Improves language comprehension
- Builds vocabulary
- Spoken words make the reading passages come alive
- Provides modeling of fluent reading
- Provides a model of great reading intonation, pronunciation, cadence, and prosody
3. Read with Tap-to-Read
With Tap-to-Read, you can tap on a word to hear it aloud or press play to listen and follow along.
- Addresses root cause of dyslexia and learning difficulties through multisensory lessons
- Reading passages come alive by having text-to-speech where students can listen to a passage while reading along
- They can also tap on a word to hear the proper pronunciation
- Listening skills improve
- Improves comprehension
- Builds vocabulary
- Builds language skills
- Spoken words make the reading passages come alive
- Provides modeling of fluent reading
- Provides a model of great reading intonation, pronunciation, cadence, and prosody
4. Improve Comprehension and Learn Note-Taking Skills
Teaching methods include comprehension strategies such as
- Note-taking
- Finding the main idea
- Finding supporting details
- Summarizing
- 5-W Notes (who, what, where, when, how, and why)
- Biography notes
- Visualization
- Vocabulary building
“Getting my daughter to write notes was where I was concerned, but she loved it and strived each week to work on her handwriting as well.”
– Amy C.
Reading and Spelling Curriculum Compared
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Online Reading Curriculums | Offline Reading Curriculums | |
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| Dyslexia specific curriculum |  |
Some | Some |
| Online and offline activities | |
Some |  |
| Science-based curriculum | |
Some | Some |
| Phonics | |
Some | Some |
| Reading comprehension | |
Some | Some |
| 5 Minute reading fluency training | |
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| Tap to Read: read-aloud technology | |
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| Learn to spell with spelling patterns | |
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| Executive function and planning skills | |
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| Designed by board-certified educational therapist and reading specialist | |
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| Orton-Gillingham Based | |
Some | Some |
What grade level is your child?
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7,200+ Confident Readers and Spellers
Grades K-8 Dyslexia Reading Program
Scholar Within’s online and offline curriculum makes teaching reading and spelling easy with self-paced, step-by-step lessons.
Dyslexia Assessment Test
Do You Suspect Dyslexia?
The following questions will help you understand and see common characteristics of dyslexia.
This is meant to be used as a guideline.
If your child has more than 6 warning signs, you may want to get a formal assessment from your school or learning specialist.
After the Assessment
Most teachers will see one or more of these warning signs at one time or another in a student’s behavior. This is normal. A good rule of thumb would be if you have checked off one or two of these, I wouldn’t be too concerned.
If you have checked off three or more from either of the first two groups or a total of three from the age groupings and if these struggles occur over a long period of time, you may want to consider the possibility that your student has dyslexia or a learning difficulty.
6 Types of Dyslexia
There are 6 types of dyslexia that affect people in slightly different ways. It is helpful to understand the differences so that you may adjust and customize a learning plan accordingly for your student.
Phonological Dyslexia
This is when a person has difficulties matching sounds to symbols.
Decoding (sounding out) words is difficult. This gets into the processing area of auditory-visual integration.
This is what most people think of when someone mentions dyslexia.
Symptoms may include:
- Difficulty learning sounds made by letters/letter combinations
- Difficulty sounding out unfamiliar words
- Difficulty spelling
- Spelling the same word in different ways on the same page
- Slow reading
- Avoiding reading activities
- Difficulty recognizing familiar words in new contexts
Rapid Naming Dyslexia
This is the ability to rapidly name colors, numbers, letters, shapes, and words when presented with them.
They may know them, but it takes some time to retrieve the correct word. This type deals with processing speed and the automatic retrieval system.
Symptoms may include:
- Difficulty retrieving words
- Frequently substituting words or leaving words out altogether
- Slow to respond orally
- Slower to complete reading or writing assignments
- Making up nonsense words in place of real words
- Using gestures in place of words
Surface Dyslexia
Surface dyslexia is when a person can sound out new words but has difficulty recognizing familiar words by sight quickly.
In other words, they have trouble reading words that are ‘sight’ words or words that don’t sound like they are spelled.
Symptoms may include:
- Difficulty with whole-word recognition
- Slow to read
- Avoidance of reading activities
- Difficulty with spelling
- Difficulty reading words that don’t sound the way they’re spelled
- Difficulty reading new words by sight
- Difficulty with identifying letters that look the same but are orientated differently such as b and d and p and q.
- Mispronounce irregular words like have, yacht, island, psalm, chaos, and friend
- Confuse words with the same pronunciation but different spellings (homonyms): blew/blue, by/buy/bye, ate/eight, and right/write/rite
Visual Dyslexia
Visual dyslexia is when a person struggles to remember what they saw on a page.
The brain doesn’t get the complete picture of what the eyes see.
Learning how to spell or form letters can also be difficult because those tasks require the brain to remember the correct letter sequence or shape.
This really gets into both visual memory and overall visual processing problems.
Symptoms may include:
- Text appearing blurred or going in and out of focus
- Difficulty tracking across lines of text
- Difficulty keeping your place in text
- Text appearing double or alternating between single and double
- Headaches and/or eyestrain associated with reading
- Difficulty with spelling
- Difficulty remembering what you read
Double Deficit Dyslexia
Double deficit dyslexia is when a person struggles with two aspects of reading.
Most of the time this is a combination of both phonological and rapid naming dyslexia.
In other words, your naming speed is slow and your ability to identify sounds and sound out words is difficult.
Symptoms may include:
- Poor naming speed rate when asked to recall words
- Weak phonological awareness
- Difficulty learning sounds made by letters/letter combinations
- Difficulty sounding out unfamiliar words
- Text appearing blurred or going in and out of focus
- Difficulty tracking across lines of text
- Difficulty spelling
- Slow reading
- Avoiding reading activities
Deep Dyslexia (Acquired Dyslexia)
Deep dyslexia or acquired dyslexia results from some trauma to the brain’s left hemisphere.
This can be from a sports injury, accident, or even a stroke.
This typically affects a person’s ability to sound out nonsense words as well as substituting one word for a related word e.g.: pony for horse, feline for cat, road for avenue.
What is the Root Cause of Dyslexia Symptoms?
Why is it easy for some kids to learn to read and hard for others?
When a student has trouble with a number of dyslexia symptoms for a long period of time, it is often because of one or multiple problems in visual, auditory, and tactile-kinesthetic processing.
There are 27 areas of visual, auditory, and tactile-kinesthetic processing that affect learning.
Learn about all 27 areas of processing here.
Having difficulty in any one area is enough to cause a student to struggle. Having difficulty in more than one area will create a greater challenge for the student. These difficulties have nothing to do with intelligence.
Students can be very smart and still have difficulty with learning.
The good news is that you can improve auditory, visual, and tactile-kinesthetic processing difficulties. These are learned skills.
Learn more about the visual and auditory processing systems:
How to Teach Reading to Students with Dyslexia
Dyslexic students CAN succeed with reading!
When teaching struggling readers or students with dyslexia, we need to look at what the science and research tell us.
How do dyslexic readers learn to read more efficiently?
Students with dyslexia need to be taught with the following methods:
- Multisensory: Uses all of the senses (auditory, visual, and tactile-kinesthetic)
- Sequential: Proceeds step-by-step in a logical sequence
- Incremental: Each lesson builds upon prior learning
- Cumulative: Constantly and consistently reviews previously taught concepts
- Individualized: Meets each student’s individual needs
- Phonogram-Based: Words are based on combining letters and letter combinations known as phonograms (the sound-symbol relationship, also known as the Alphabetic Principle)
- Explicit: Stated clearly and in a detailed manner
The above principles are the foundation of the Orton-Gillingham methodology. This method was first taught by Samuel Orton and then later with Anna Gillingham to help struggling readers and spellers.
Research has also shown that reading instruction must specifically include:
When you teach reading with all the above components in this way, yes, even dyslexic students can succeed at reading.
The above principles are the foundation of our reading and spelling programs at Scholar Within.
At Scholar Within, we recognize that understanding dyslexia can be difficult as there are 6 different types of dyslexia.
But when you address the underlying root cause of why a student is struggling, has dyslexia, or has a learning difficulty, students are able to learn at their own pace.
The Science of How We Learn: The 27 Areas of Processing
We all learn information through the vision system, the auditory system, and the tactile-kinesthetic system, or in other words, hearing, seeing, and doing.
Kids who have trouble learning to read often have several areas of either visual, auditory, or tactile-kinesthetic processing that aren’t working as well as they could be.
This gets into a bit of what we call diagnostic teaching.
We look at what is interfering with the learning process. We want to include all of these areas in our methods of teaching reading.
There are nine areas of visual, auditory, and tactile-kinesthetic processing that affect learning for a total of 27 areas of processing.
When you teach reading with activities that incorporate all 27 areas of processing, dyslexic students are able to thrive.
Having difficulty in any one area is enough to cause a student to struggle. Having difficulty in more than one area will create a greater challenge for the student.
These difficulties have nothing to do with intelligence. Students can be very bright and still have difficulty with learning.
The good news is that much can be done about these difficulties.
These are learned skills and they can improve.
These specific methods work for students of all ages, whether you have identified learning disabilities, suspected or identified dyslexia, CAPD, or even visual processing problems.
When teaching reading, it’s important for your child to have a positive association with reading.
Oftentimes kids that are extremely frustrated with reading are reading books or passages that are too far above their reading level.
At night, you should have your child read a book aloud for fun that might be 1-2 levels below their current reading level. This reinforces a positive association with reading.
Then, with school work, they should be reading passages and books that are at their level that may introduce new words.
In Scholar Within’s reading program, our reading passages are supercharged with Tap-to-Read technology so that students can simply tap on a word to hear the proper pronunciation aloud. We always encourage a student to try to sound out a word on their own first, but then they can tap on it to hear it or if they get stuck. This feature helps frustration levels tremendously. After reading a passage, they can also press play to listen to a passage aloud and follow along.
At Scholar Within, we believe that dyslexia is not a limitation, but an opportunity for growth and achievement. With the right support and resources, individuals with dyslexia can become successful readers.
When teaching dyslexic kids to read, it is critically important to teach in the methods described above.
At Scholar Within, we’ve put together a step-by-step program that makes it easy for you to help your dyslexic students become strong and confident readers.
Effective Reading Instruction
Scholar Within’s specialized methods of reading and spelling instruction improve the areas of processing which makes learning to read easier.
Scholar Within’s online reading programs are different in that we go to the root cause of learning problems that many struggling readers have.
We do this with different step-by-step activities including:
- Reading fluency training (fluency practice)
- Reading passages with tap-to-read technology
- Note-taking with graphic organizers
- Phonics and phonemic awareness lessons
- Brain-body activities
- Executive function activities
- And more!
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Grades K-8 Dyslexia Reading Program
Scholar Within’s online and offline curriculum makes teaching reading and spelling easy with self-paced, step-by-step lessons.
Reviews from Parents
K Kelly P.
Best curriculum I’ve seen so far for homeschoolers! It’s precisely organized by week and day, for everything. Which I have yet to experience by all other programs claiming the same.
This program even tapers the workload to ease in on Monday, peak midweek and taper down Friday. Though they have a couple suggested alternatives with a handy calendar, the primary schedule is our favorite and keeps the day and week on track.
There isn’t an easy way to take a day off without catching up or skipping. So it isn’t quite self paced as mentioned, namely because everything is executed so well and organized to perfection! It’d just be easier to take the week off than try to catch up if you missed more than a day – but that’s what makes homeschool special anyway. No makeup sick work or jamming in school while on vacation.
This program is what I expected for homeschool curriculum but never found. I almost considered returning to regular school because it’s so costly and laborious putting materials with worksheets and tests. Scholar Within is a game changer! I wish they covered more topics honestly.
The daily drills bring a lot of confidence because there is not an expectation to read a set amount of words. Plus, they naturally improve just by reviewing the words right before the one min timed drill. No additional practice needed! So smart! He begs me to do drills every day. Zero struggles. Then students chart their word count progress right after, so they see improvement everyday. He’s so proud of himself for the first time ever with reading and spelling.
Brilliantly designed to help kids organically challenge themselves without the pressure of comparison or expectation of a certain number.
He loves that he can review notes and I love that this program clearly teaches how to take effective, useful notes. Schools don’t even teach that and I had to learn in college which was hard.
We’ve homeschooled two years now and I’ve spent so much time and money with the “big” guys to no avail. Not with Scholar Within. Everything is perfectly paired and materials are exactly sequences to online. Each worksheet page says what lesson week and matches exactly to what is shown online.
We spent four days on the trial and bought the year subscription without hesitation. Mind you I’d already spent over $400 for the semester with other curriculum.
The materials prep for printed workbooks is staged so you might want to consider that before setting your start date. We subscribed a couple days before their packing materials. It shipped in a couple days later and we received our free printed materials 5 days after signing up for the year! So we don’t even have to wait the extra week we thought we would.
The boy 4th grade cheers, screams and thunderous happy dances are a sight I’ve rarely seen. The morning of materials arrival he was keeping track for the delivery truck like it was a toy ordered from Amazon. Thank you so much! We’re so excited for the year to come!
A few days is all you need to see the value. It’s easy to use and improvements happen on day two for every student.
Best online program by far!
T TERESA B.
My daughter has really struggled with spelling over the years – she is now in seventh grade. This program has been one of the best programs to help her grow in her ability to spell. Thank you!
J Jennifer K.
I started using this program after a TON of research. I needed a good fit for my 8 yr old dyslexic daughter. I’d say she 1.5-2 reading grades behind. We tried the summer program and loved it. This program was very simple and easy to acclimate to, which was a blessing bc these days I don’t have the time and energy to deep dive learning new programs. Scholar Within was instantly engaging and with the easy to follow step by step layout it made everything so approachable. I had to reach out through chat a few times and always received responses quickly and they were kind, helpful, and encouraging. 5 star customer service! I like how you can change the levels within the program (I started lower so that I could build her confidence) and the variety within lessons. You might see that some are saying there’s a lot of printing, I was at first concerned about this but it really wasn’t bad. I’d just print a few lessons ahead of time and keep them in the folder. It was actually pretty easy and only took 1-2 minutes. They also have an option for some of the weeks to buy pre-printed materials. Do what works for you 🙂 My daughter said she really liked the games too.
U Urizza L.
I was a newbie to homeschooling when I signed up for this program. Now I realized, after almost a year of homeschooling, that this program is too expensive. It does have good content, but the way it is delivered is very boring that my children don’t want to use it.
K Kimberly W.
Wonderful program for children, especially for my child with ADHD and speech delay. I am so grateful that there is a program out here for children like this.
K K M.
My son is 13 years old and struggles with reading, reading comprehension, and auditory processing. I thought this program seemed like just the right fit for him but we were disappointed in it. It’s the same stuff repeated over and over again. You read a passage and fill out an outline/graphic organizer page. It wasn’t teaching my child anything new. The spelling was ok but the words seemed a bit under average for even a poor speller. The games for executive function were not great. My son felt like they were geared for children not a tween. The field trip section we found very boring and unsure of the expectations.
C Cloressa O.
We tried Scholar Within for our student in the summer of 2022. Our student has ADHD and diagnosed learning disabilities. This program was just what we needed to keep our student engaged during the summer. The executive function focus that this program includes was so helpful especially for kids with ADHD. I highly recommend this for families that have students with reading and reading comprehension as an opportunity. This program covers spelling, reading comprehension, note taking, executive function, and has so many great brain games and virtual field trip ideas. We will be doing this program every summer going forward. Phenomenal program and the price points are so much better than a lot of the other programs out there. Keep in mind this is a team effort, this program has an online aspect but it also has worksheets and requires parent interaction. I absolutely love that it has text to speech and encourages the student to read aloud. I also love that it puts focus on writing and not just typing up stuff online. There are so many great things about this program I wish I could list them all.
K Kyle G.
Our second grader is a great reader, but really struggled with spelling. This program offered everything he needed in order to begin spelling words correctly and with so much more understanding. The program is well organized and efficient, offering a great foundation to students. We couldn’t be happier!
E Emmanuelle R.
The program is well organized and easy to follow. The program helped my son with dyslexia a lot for ready fluency. Nothing else had helped… It was like a game for him and we called it his “brain activity”. Very happy and totally recommend it.
C Crystal H.
This program is absolutely different from everything we have tried in the past, it’s truly amazing !! I think the layout online is wonderful, it really helps that the kids see what is expected of them everyday (and a time estimate keeps them motivated). I love way they teach planning is a great life skill! The printed materials are beautifully done and organized! They make learning simple and fun. The reading lessons vary in topics keeping kids interested and they often tell dad at dinner what they have read because they’re actually retaining it. The spelling program is also amazing teaching VC patterns and going over phonic patterns. We also enjoy that the reading and spelling lessons can be at different grade levels to perfectly adapt to each child and their needs. 5 stars from me!
K Kelley B.
My son and I have tried many reading programs; this one has made the most significant difference. It trains the brain to think of reading and spelling in ways beyond rote memorization. In addition, the reading program is enjoyable and effective. As a result, my son started the school year with increased confidence as a reader, and I feel better prepared to help him with his learning.
V Valerie K.
My child was diagnosed with ASD (autism spectrum disorder) and it has been a difficult journey in getting her to develop phonemic awareness skills and reading fluency, among other reading deficits. After enrolling her in Scholar Within’s reading and spelling program over the summer, I have seen the improvement that I’ve been waiting for! I will definitely continue using this program throughout the school year.
J Jennifer A.
Fabulous reading program! We enrolled our daughter over the summer. It was so wonderful we decided to continue using the program during the school year.
D Dr. Kimberly C.
Great program, even for an older struggling reader with auditory processing disorder and possible dyslexia.
I like the option of switching between grade levels as needed customer service has been fast/useful so far.
K Kathleen B.
After a recent diagnosis of dyslexia, we started our son on this program over the summer. He has taken to it so well and we have already seen such great improvement. We are looking forward to continuing the program year-round!
R Rachelle M.
I have two children who just completed 8 weeks of the reading and spelling program. My oldest is dyslexic and I’ve been looking for a spelling program that is geared towards older kids since she is in 8th grade and many of the other spelling programs we’ve done feel like they are for younger children. My daughter appreciated that the lessons were straightforward in teaching the patterns through sight, sound and writing. Her spelling confidence and ability grew tremendously. My youngest benefited from the reading fluency drills and reading comprehension activities. Both enjoyed the games and puzzles. We look forward to continuing with the program into the fall as homeschoolers.
M Mary M.
We love the reading and spelling program. My daughter has not only increased her words per minute but also has expanded her comprehension. She is learning valuable note taking strategies and has drastically improved her spelling. She also enjoys the content! We are excited to see her growth.
N Natalie M.
This program really helped my daughters (grade 3 and grade 2) with reading comprehension! It gave us as parents the tools we needed to ask the right questions to help them too! Also, the games were really enjoyable! We even played them AFTER the lesson was over for the day. We were very impressed with the variety of activities and tools available with this program.
A Amy D.
My daughter is begging me to do your reading program again to strengthen her skills. The guides for note-taking and how to pick out important information was only second to the fun activities each day last year. We look forward to seeing what’s in store for this year!
L Lisa G.
Thank you for partnering with me to help my daughters improve their reading skills. They are really enjoying your program and are excited about becoming more confident readers. I am loving it already! I signed up my twin daughters, who are homeschooled.
W Wendi L.
My children took the Scholar Within reading program. I was impressed with how user-friendly and intuitive the program is.
S Sabrina D.
The Monday exercise of reading and taking notes followed with questions on those selections on Wednesday is a really great help for my kids. This lets them work on their comprehension skills. It has made a big difference! The whole program has been a good experience for us. Thank you very much!
N Niiro T.
Even when I’m not sure how to reason/explain to my son about a reading comprehension answer, all I have to do is ask you. You are so good at giving quick replies that are easy for me to tell my son. Thank you!
G Gracie K.
Ma’am, you are a blessing. I am on my 2nd year as a kindergarten teacher and your technique eased my doubts about being effective towards teaching children who have zero spelling and reading skills.
M Margie K.
My son couldn’t write or spell. Our lives changed when we found your system. It was just what we needed. It was a 100% turnaround! I noticed the improvement immediately, but it became more dramatic as time went on. He came home with smiles. He started liking school. He became a confident learner. In fact, by the time he was in 4th grade, he was at the top of his class.
C Calvin T.
We really loved the program. Thanks so much for all of the neat assignments and games to enhance executive function skills.
S Sky B.
Your videos make it so easy for my kids to actually see and hear how letters and sounds come together to make words. They are improving my kids’ spelling and reading skills. Such a bonus! And, they love playing the games, too.
K Kameron F.
Thanks for your help throughout this process. You are so responsive whenever I have a question or concern. I see activities on the different levels for my kids which makes them easy to follow. This has been an awesome experience for our family.
J Jennifer P.
My son is doing well and shows improvements with the reading drills each day. He is also doing well with all the work that is presented. His overall work is improving too. He’s even able to find spelling errors now. Woohoo!
C Cynthia B.
I really do like the reading fluency drills. They are making a difference for my son. They are so easy to fit into our day. The thing we didn’t like was all the printing we had to do each week.
K Karla C.
I am very grateful for having found Scholar Within. As a homeschooling mom, I am always in search of good materials that fit the needs of my children. Scholar Within has been especially beneficial for my 7th grader, his greatest challenges have been spelling, and clarity while reading out loud. I was amazed at the way in which Scholar Within combines phonics, spelling, and reading comprehension. My son has advanced significantly in these areas since we started using the program. He loves the reading selections and finds them very educative and interesting.
Great program. I highly recommend it to any parent.
R Regina A.
The videos made all the difference in the world. The spelling videos showed me step by step the structure. You really made spelling easy for my kids. I just keep working with the video, the spelling, the way you explain it, they watch it over and over. It really sinks in. Your materials help build their self-esteem up. They’re short quick activities. You can get so much done in half an hour.
W Wendy F.
We are really liking the summer reading program. I appreciate that you moved my daughter’s level to make the program even more effective for her. Thanks so much.
M Megan W.
I did find the videos and activities interesting. There was a bit too much printing for me.
C Cathy H.
Jake is doing well and enjoying the program. I’m so pleased with how he has improved and that he likes doing our sessions! Thanks so much!
K Katherine W.
My son’s first drill trend is definitely going in the right direction. His words per minute increased by 17%, and his mistakes decreased, and this is only the first week. I can’t believe he had that much progress already. Thank you for this program and thanks so much for being available for questions, too!
T Tricia L.
Last summer my 3 kids were enrolled in both Scholar Within and another major reading program. Scholar Within had more fun activities and games and really focused on building the underlying skills to really prepare for the upcoming year. The other program didn’t build skills in the same way and was less interactive in my home.
C Christine P.
Your program has so many great things in it. The plan for an excursion was a brilliant idea! We made a trip to the Children’s Museum in Indianapolis and to the Science Museum in St. Louis. I have seen improvements and I have gained insight into how my daughter reads and processes (or lack thereof) the reading assignments. Thank you so very much! The whole-brain approach to improving reading has been very insightful.
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