Reading Readiness Overview

Reading Readiness builds pre-reading skills, with a focus on letter recognition and naming, phonological awareness, and letter-sound associations. Reading Readiness, developed by reading experts from Harvard, Stanford and John Hopkins, uses exclusive patented technology to help young children develop critical language and cognitive skills to prepare them for early learning. It is designed for early literacy development, helping students move from the spoken word to the written word.

Girl with backpackReading Readiness™ is a fast, reliable way for parents, educators, and clinical professionals to develop the language and listening skills that are the foundation for reading and all learning. In addition, Reading Readiness can help children develop hand-eye coordination, beginning word play, and build sequencing and patterning skills.

Reading Readiness is the initial program in the Master Readers Reading Development Series. It develops memory, attention, processing and sequencing, or Learning “MAPS”, which are critically important prerequisites for successful reading and learning. To build a bridge to reading, Reading Readiness develops critical brain processing efficiency in four key areas:

  • Builds memory by developing the ability to hold a spoken word in working memory while retrieving picture-concept associations.
  • Improves attention by developing the ability to focus on tasks and ignore distractions.
  • Develops processing of images and sounds quickly enough to discriminate between their differences.
  • Develops sequencing by using positional clues to identify missing letters.

It builds skills in:

Language and Reading

  • Letters and their sound association
  • Auditory Perception
  • Phonological awareness
  • Following verbal directions
  • Decoding
  • Colour, shape and size identification
  • Letter name association with upper and lower case letters

Cognitive Skills Developed by Reading Readiness

  • Working memory
  • Visual attention Sustained and selective attention
  • Auditory and visual processing
  • Sequencing ability
  • Visual – spatial memory