Readable English

Even students who are nonreaders gain the ability to sound out words with fluency and confidence in a matter of weeks, rather than months or years.

Readable English addresses the three greatest difficulties of learning to decode English:

• Syllabication
• Unpronounced letters
• Multiple possible sounds

Technical Requirements

PC or MAC or Chromebook
Chrome Browser preferred.
Also works on Firefox, Safari and others.

Tablet
iPad 3 and above with iOS 10 or above
Samsung with 6.0 or above.

Features and Benefits

Readable English

• Provides a complete program to support teachers, including online lessons, printable materials and games, apps, and reading practice texts.
• Includes an eReader application that allows teachers and students to easily convert texts into Readable English.
• Allows teachers to assign activities and monitor student progress within an easy-to-use and intuitive administrative portal.
• Is supported by research and field studies in schools, showing dramatic gains that translate quickly to reading standard English.
• Offers an engaging experience where students quickly experience success in correctly pronouncing and reading text.

At Springs Valley Elementary School, French Lick, IN, students using Readable English improved their age-equivalent reading scores significantly more than was expected on the Gray Oral Reading Test. Students were pre- and post-tested before and after the implementation of Readable English. Second-grade students were pre- and post-tested 3 months apart, during which time they received their daily reading instruction using Readable English. Averaged across all aspects of reading ability, students improved by 1.6 years, exceeding expected by well over a year. First and third graders also achieved comparable gains.