Teachers and administrators of private schools work hard to ensure their students’ academic success.  Not only do the statistics faithfully show that your hard work is paying off, but the parents who are parting with their hard-earned cash expect it.

Competent reading skills with both the ability to decode words and with solid reading comprehension is foundational to future academic success.  While there are numbers of good curricula incorporating the methodology of the science of reading, there are limited supplemental books that follow a truly incremental phonetic approach to decoding words.  That’s where Homestead Readers comes in. 

Practice makes perfect.  Once a student has moved from the phonemic awareness stage, Homestead Readers helps propel your students through the next four stages of learning to read.  These decodable books cement the principles that you have been teaching in your current learn-to-read curriculum.  Success breeds success.  And in the case of learning to read, it results in a student who can’t wait to read because they have found that learning to read really is not hard!

The systematic and incremental progression of the fifteen books in the Homestead Readers series aligns with several learn-to-read programs (see the chart below) thereby providing the student with the extra practice needed to perfect new skills.  This progression is similar not only in the introduction of sounds, but in the number of times words are used in a story, the number of words in a sentence, and the number of words on a page. To further speed the journey to reading proficiency, Homestead Readers initially uses very few sight words. 

Homestead Readers can not only be used in a reading circle in a class situation or as independent reading material, but Homestead Readers feature an added bonus for when the books are sent home for reading practice.  Many parents no longer remember how they learned to read.  But each Homestead Reader book gives simple, brief explanations for the adult.  This enables them to help a child approach the sounds introduced in that leveled book. Tips of how to ensure that their child is comprehending what they are reading are included as well.  Parents can be encouraged to purchase a set of Homestead Readers with the goal of cementing the reading skills that you are teaching.  This will have the effect of speeding the child to reading competency, and will further ensure that parents are pleased with their child’s enrollment at your private school. Their child’s success ensures your school’s success.

Sets of the fifteen leveled Homestead Readers are reasonably priced and include shipping. Bulk pricing of Homestead Readers is available.  Contact Homestead Readers for quantities other than those listed in the Homestead Reader online store.