It has been a life-saving program. Alex was reading between a 1st and 2nd grade level as a rising 4th grader, but after just 223 lessons, he is reading at grade level. His new-found reading skill has opened up a world of learning for him, and he is now learning a lot and doing much better in all subjects. His curriculum is reading-intensive, and he now enjoys reading.
The change in his attitude about reading and learning is maybe more fundamental and transformative than the skill itself. We continue to practice reading, decoding, and spelling, but no longer need Easyread to do these things. The Easyread characters continue to be a useful language for use to talk about sounds separately from letters and his spelling program relies on phonics, making this phonemic language helpful for us.
Thank you for everything!