The CogRead Solution

Eliminating Reading Difficulties with Supportive Resources

The challenges facing teachers today are enormous and growing. Countless messages, incentives and approaches are offered to help. Continuous communications spell out what is wrong with education. At CogRead we are happy to say that our philosophy is to celebrate what is right and to offer parents and schools access to a couple of tools to support their existing reading curriculums. We can make parents and teachers’ lives better, not more complicated.

Traditional reading instruction is not enough for certain students. Our experience after evaluating tens of thousands of children demonstrates that the primary reason a child struggles is because of weak underlying skills, not because of inadequate teaching. The promise for raising student achievement and for successful implementation of reading instruction can now be realized. One of the leading and most respected Reading First researchers has proven in schools that most reading difficulties can be prevented with the proper, intensive phonemic skills training.  Click here to learn more about the research.

The challenge is to find the resources to provide this type of intensive, one-on-one skill training. Most schools do not have the resources. The CogRead Campaign provides access to the needed resources beginning with an exercise, Sound Analysis, for children as young as age five. Click here to see how Sound Analysis meets a child’s need for reading preparation and readiness.

It is important to understand that the research identifies the primary cause of reading struggles as weak phonemic awareness skills. This skill set cannot be taught; it can only be trained with intensive one-on-one training.  Students with sufficient skills respond well to instruction. However, in cases where students have weak skills, such as phonemic awareness, instruction is not as effective. When a primary skill is weak a child will likely fall behind and need an intensive intervention to catch up.

Struggling children can develop the innate skills they need to read proficiently, but right now 1/3 of America’s school children in general and 1/2  of low-income students in urban schools do not have adequately developed skills. An online exercise, Sound Analysis, can make the difference. Additional exercises can be added as needed. Within weeks a child can be prepared for a lifetime of reading and learning success.

As a parent you can help your child at home and teachers can easily start training phonemic awareness skills at school without changing their reading curriculum or needing additional help in the classroom.

We are donating Sound Analysis to parents and to schools.