Empowering Students to Become Their Best

Our Program

Academic Associates Reading Course is a proven reading instruction method based on the 44 sounds of the English language…the sounds we use every day. It is a no frills, basic phonics program where each student is taught one-on-one at their own rate. No music, pictures, body movements or singing are used in the instruction as these can cause distraction and lead to guessing.

The student does not memorize words on a list. The student does not memorize phrases on a list. The student will be able to read words in lower case and upper case. All students improve! Success comes with improvement!

At the end of 13 lessons, a student will have all the tools needed to decode any of the 1,000,000+ words that are in our English language.

Here's how the program works:

In each lesson, the student is introduced to decoding rules. After understanding the rules, words are sounded out by the student as they apply what they have just learned.

The student is empowered by learning the decoding rules and reading success occurs in a very short time! For example, after Lesson One, the student can read 300 words. (Approx. 2 hours of lesson time). Lesson Two builds on Lesson One. The student continues to gain knowledge and confidence each step of the way.

Step by step, the student will continue until all 13 Lessons are complete. Decoding, fluency, and comprehension all follow as the student masters reading with the tools provided.

Success occurs naturally as the student's reading skills continue to improve.