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A Reading Specialist for Every Student
My Reading Coach is consistent with the Orton-Gillingham approach to reading.  It is a structured, flexible, mastery-based, multi-sensory educational software program that provides a virtual reading specialist and speech pathologist to every student.  Embedded Teacher Intelligence™ individualizes instruction to help each student reach grade level in the skill areas of phonemic awareness, phonics sounds and rules, vocabulary, word Structure, syntactic processing and reading comprehension.

Why does My Reading Coach Work when Other Programs have failed?

Struggling readers need individualized help.  Many of them have visual or auditory processing issues.  Still others have attention deficit disorders, memory retention issues or language processing gaps.  This educational software solution, based on the Orton-Gillingham approach is systematic, repetitive, and rule based.  Learning through patterns helps students succeed.  A virtual reading and speech pathologist works directly with each student and provides immediate feedback to ensure understanding.  A placement test determines the student's unique lesson plan.  Students only take lessons they really need.  When students quickly do what they could not do before, they are motivated to become literate.

My Reading Coach™ is unique and effective because it motivates students to be active participants by providing:

  • An excellent command of phonics
  • A thorough understanding of word structure
  • An easy to master and apply syllabication method
  • Consistent rules and strategies that make application of word attack skills automatic
  • Skill practice and targeted remediation as needed
  • Comprehension strategies that work
  • A positive understanding of personal accountability
  • A basic understanding of grammar to aid comprehension and writing
  • Encouragement to be engaged in the learning process as the reading Coach positively interacts with each student at least every 30 seconds
  • The positive self-esteem that comes with success
Who should use My Reading Coach?

  • Schools that want to close the gap between high and low performing readers
  • Struggling readers or anyone ages 6 and up who is not reading on grade level
  • Students referred to reading support programs or Special Education
  • Schools that want all students to make AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress)
  • English Language Learners (ELL) or those with Limited Language Proficiency (LLP)
  • Dyslexia, attention deficit disorder (ADHD/ADD) students and other learning disabilities
  • Students who need to improve their speech or pronunciation
  • Schools who want to supplement  their Orton-Gillingham program with additional educational software instruction.

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“One third grader completed the program in 2 years. When she first came to me she looked at a word with tears in her eyes and said “I can’t read English.” As she started to do that with the program, she was shocked. She could read words; then stories; and this year she passed her TAKS test. She loves to read now. She says, 'My Reading Coach helped me so much. I do things like reading and spelling that I didn’t think I could do.'”
Becky Presley, Paraprofessional ESL, Midland Academy Charter School, Midland, Texas