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All students
can do the assignments
if they can hear.

99 percent of students
are successful
in our classrooms.

You can do this too
provided you follow
our classroom rules.

How do we do this?

1.
A parent or teacher
must use (model) the courses
with the student.

2.
No constructive criticism.

3.
Daily rewards
only after participation.
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Our results

Our average student
makes 2 to 3 grade level gains
for every 360 hours of classes.
(2 hours per day for 180 days)

Some students can make these gains
in 240 hours.

Some students need 720 hours.

Note:
Our gains are measured
by comparing beginning and ending scores
on standardized tests.
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99% SUCCESS

Our classrooms solve 99%
of reading problems
in 12 months or less.

12 months part time.

9 months full time.

Many parents say:

"We have tried everything
to solve the problem."

"Why didn't it work?"

Most parents and teachers
have tried
short "band-aid" programs
to solve the reading problems.

Parents continue to be vexed
by their child's failures to read.

They are looking
for a "light bulb to go on."

This seldom happens.

If it does happen the child
still has a massive pronunciation
deficit to make up.
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SLOW SPEED REMEDIATION
VS HIGH SPEED REMEDIATION

Slow or intermittent
remedial programs
will add to the deficit.

Slow speed remediation
convinces the child
that there will be no solution.

They lose hope.

Some cry.

Most hide their dismay.
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READING SUCCESS

Peterson Reading students
start to experience success
within a few hours.

Children want to be readers.

They are happy to read
when they can be successful.

We use a rapid
pronunciation program
and fast-paced classes.

We use reward management
to keep the child on task.

Students attend 3 to 5 days a week
and solve the problem
in the minimum number of months.
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A NATIONAL STUDY
TELLS THE PROBLEM

Peterson has been creating
the solution.

Children exposed
to high fluency
speech and vocabularies
excel in school and life.

Without enough fluent input
children's lives are permanently limited.

See copies of studies that document
these sad facts.

The Importance of Home Environment

A study by Hart and Risley

Excerpt from the study:

In professional families,
children heard an average of
2,153 words per hour;
in working class families
1,251 words per hour
and in welfare families only
616 words per hour.

Extrapolating these figures
to cover 4 years of experience
would give 11 million words heard
by a child in a professional family,
6 million for a child
in working class family
and 3 million for a child
in a welfare family.

Click here to read the entire study.

Click here to read
important findings documented
by Recorded Books.

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Caution for parents:

A SLOW REMEDIAL PROGRAM
WILL NEVER ACCOMPLISH
THE CATCH-UP NEEDED

The struggling remedial student
that has just learned to decode
will continue to avoid reading.

Without an intensive program
they will never catch-up
with the competition.

It is unfair to expect
the delayed reader to ever catch-up
on their own.

Your well meaning admonishments
and harassments to read continue
to defeat the child's optimism.

Poor readers are defeated
by the competition.

The crippling effects of school failure
become a lifelong burden
that is almost impossible to lift.

Poor readers are locked away
from much of the kindness,
affection and approval available
to academically successful children.
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GUARANTEED SOLUTIONS

How can a child catch-up
with the good readers?

Your child needs to make up
for a 2 to 6 year difference
in pronunciation experience.

Fortunately the solution
is mostly a matter of numbers.

Here's a numerical explanation
of the problem and the solution.
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THE COMPETITION

Early readers have had hundreds
of hours of practice
at pronouncing words.

They can easily pronounce
many thousands of words
after seeing the printed symbols.

Good readers easily consume
the equivalent of 100 to 200
children's books per year.

How many words is that?

100 thirty-page children's books
containing 10,000 words equals
one million words per year.

200 thirty-page children's books
containing 10,000 words equals
two million words per year.

Example:

How many years have the competition
been good readers?

1yr 1,000,000 words recognized
and pronounced
2yrs 2,000,000 words
3yrs 3,000,000 words
4yrs 4,000,000 words
5yrs 5,000,000 words
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GUARANTEED READING
IMPROVEMENT

2 hours per day 5 days per week.

1yr 2,500,000 words - catch-up

2yrs 5,000,000 words -
still catching up with the competition

3yrs 7,500,000 words -
going slightly ahead of the competition

4yrs 10,000,000 words -
staying ahead of the competition
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PRONUNCIATION GAP

A 500 hour program to make up
for a large part
of the pronunciation gap.

The program includes:

-250 hours of Peterson Reading
chorusing at 12,000 words per hour
equals 3 million words pronounced.

-250 hours of Accelerated Thinking
to practice organizing,
speaking and writing.
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PARENTS CAN CREATE
EARLY READERS

Reasons for early
or successful reading:

A child reading or listening to 100
children's books in a year
has subvocalized or pronounced
over a million words PER YEAR.

Early readers have many years
to practice word recognition skills.

Talkative parents provide
more models for vocabulary.

Families that discuss current events
stimulate early reading.

Families without TV replace
the time with reading and discussion.

Those families usually
have fluent readers.
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ACCELERATED SCHOOLS

Our procedures are different
from what many parents have thought
about reading.

Here are some of the reasons
for our success:

Motivating children
with high speed successes.

If students think they can
do something they will.

Thousands of successes
until they know they can read.