Oct 27, 2022 | DM Case Studies, DM News Blog
Case Studies View All Case Studies Keira: This was the program that changed my life. Keira, now 17, completed Easyread in 2013 when she was 8 years old. When I was in elementary school, I found school exceptionally hard. Reading was the worst thing that someone could...
Mar 23, 2021 | DM Case Studies
Case Studies View All Case Studies Confidently reading above his grade level It has been almost one year since my seven-year-old son started on David Morgan’s Easyread. The other day, I overheard him read aloud a chapter book, unprompted and unassisted, and...
Dec 7, 2020 | DM Case Studies
Case Studies View All Case Studies Sebastian was guessing words despite reading practice every night The Backstory We started Easyread in March 2020, I found the program online searching for reading tutoring because Sebastian was behind his reading level at school....
Dec 5, 2019 | DM Case Studies
Case Studies View All Case Studies Leah used to be told that she simply “wasn’t trying” with reading The Backstory Before Easyread, Leah and I were both told by several teachers that she simply “wasn’t trying”. The school thought she was being...
Dec 3, 2019 | DM Case Studies
Case Studies View All Case Studies Mia: from discouraged to completely confident in reading! The Backstory Mia was reading above grade level, but we noticed that she was resisting reading and beginning to guess at words rather than sound them out. She was increasingly...
Nov 15, 2019 | DM Case Studies
Case Studies View All Case Studies Monty: from reluctant reader to book lover The Backstory What was reading practice and spelling like for Monty before Easyread? Frustrating. Following a homeschool curriculum based on phonics, we had a word list to work with every...
Jul 22, 2019 | DM Case Studies
Case Studies View All Case Studies Anessa: memorising books and struggling with spelling The Backstory In the first few years of school Anessa found reading ‘easy’ but as we learned she has a fabulous memory and could memorise poems and short stories. In...
Jul 10, 2019 | DM Case Studies
Case Studies View All Case Studies Annabel: Guessing, muddling up small words – now reading fluently and confidently The Backstory If I said I was hoping Easyread could deliver on what it promised that would be a huge understatement! We had a 7 year old daughter who...
Jun 11, 2019 | DM Case Studies
Case Studies View All Case Studies Alex: he has caught up with his peers and now reads before bed! The Backstory Before Easyread, Alex could not really read other than simple sentences and even then he struggled. He was about a year behind his peers in terms of...
Jun 10, 2019 | DM Case Studies
Case Studies View All Case Studies Fia: She now reads in bed on her own. The Backstory Firstly the difference in Fia’s reading from when she started Easyread last summer is amazing. She struggled breaking words down and guessed them and she read in a very broken...
Apr 8, 2019 | DM Case Studies
Case Studies View All Case Studies Maria: Now reading the same books as her peers! The Backstory When Maria was struggling to learn to read in the conventional way at school I started to look for alternatives and stumbled across Easyread. I read lots of reviews and...
Mar 19, 2019 | DM Case Studies
Case Studies View All Case Studies Máté is now reading on his own. The Backstory I used to set a certain length of text from a ‘young reading’ series (500 to 600 characters at a time) for Máté to read aloud each day. He did have some good spells where he...
Nov 16, 2018 | DM Case Studies
Case Studies View All Case Studies Grangger: Discouragement and frustration are no longer a part of his reading. The Backstory My son has always struggled with reading, he could read smoothly if it was a level without difficult words but when challenging words would...
Nov 15, 2018 | DM Case Studies
Case Studies View All Case Studies Matthew: from reading battles to reading success! The Backstory Reading practice before Easyread was a battle! He was aware that he wasn’t as good as classmates at literacy and lost confidence in himself. He was avoiding...
Nov 8, 2018 | DM Case Studies
Case Studies View All Case Studies Clark: from 2 years behind to all caught up in 100 days Wow what a week! My 8 year old son Clark has completed 100 lessons with Easy Read and in the same week he got pupil of the week at school, not for just anything but for his...
Nov 6, 2018 | DM Case Studies
Case Studies View All Case Studies Elizabeth now reads chapter books and enjoys reading The Backstory Before using the easyread system, Elizabeth was struggling to read picture books and did not read chapter books in 4th grade. She said she hated reading and that...
Oct 11, 2018 | DM Case Studies
Case Studies View All Case Studies Micah: Reading frustration, tears and underperformance in school The Backstory Before EasyRead my boy was struggling to learn reading with the methods being taught in his school. He was falling behind his classmates, losing...
Sep 12, 2018 | DM Case Studies
Case Studies View All Case Studies Carter: Still struggling at age 10 The Backstory Carter was still struggling to read and spell at age 10. It was all memorization of rules and he hated it. He was not a phonics learner and no matter how we persisted; Carter persisted...
Aug 15, 2018 | DM Case Studies
Case Studies View All Case Studies Kayley: Reading anxiety and frustration The Backstory Kayley was struggling with her reading and would get anxious when it was time for her to read. She was reading below her age and became frustrated when she did not know a word....
Jul 26, 2018 | DM Case Studies
Case Studies View All Case Studies Alicia: From failed tutoring to Charlotte’s Web! Before Easyread Easyread for Alicia has been a Godsend. Prior to coming across Easyread, Alicia had a private tutor and although she was lovely we could not see any improvement...
