For parents
What a reading specialist does, and how A New Page brings many of those daily routines home
A good reading specialist isn’t magic. They do a specific set of things, in a specific order, backed by decades of research. Here’s every one, and exactly how we deliver it.
We’re $39 a month for your whole family, and we do the daily work between sessions, which is the part that actually builds the skill.
First, what a specialist looks for
The assessment, finding exactly where your child is, and watching them grow.
- ✓Exactly where your child is in the sequenceOur Starting Check places your child at their precise step, not their grade.
- ✓Can they hear and work with the sounds in words?Every lesson includes sound work, blending, segmenting, and pulling words apart by ear.
- ✓Can they decode real and made-up words?Our check uses real words and “robot words”, nonsense words a child can’t have memorized, which is how you know they’re truly decoding.
- ✓How smoothly and accurately do they read aloud?Once a week you run a one-minute check and the program charts it over time.
- ✓Can they spell what they can read?Every session includes dictation, your child spells the words they’re learning to read.
- ✓Progress you can hand a teacherA printable weekly note with the numbers a teacher or IEP team will recognize. Documentation you can actually use.
Then, what a specialist does every session
The teaching, the active ingredients research shows build reading.
- ✓Explicit, step-by-step phonics in a research-based orderWe hand you every word to say, the teaching, the practice, the corrections. Nothing is left to guess.
- ✓Pure, clean letter soundsThe sounds are taught crisply, /b/, not “buh”, because the wrong way makes blending nearly impossible.
- ✓Reading built at your child’s exact levelEvery line of every story is built from only the sounds your child has been taught, so they can actually read it.
- ✓Reading the same lines until they’re smoothYour child reads each line a few times, one of the most research-supported ways to build reading fluency.
- ✓Advance only when a skill is solidYour child moves on only once they’ve mastered a step, and any skill that slips comes back automatically on a spaced schedule.
- ◐Understanding and vocabulary , growingWe build comprehension and word meaning into the stories, and we’re deepening this further.
- ✓Keeping your child wanting to come backThe reading is a real adventure that only moves when your child reads it, plus a parent playbook for the hard nights.
And here’s what we’ll always be straight with you about
We’re not a diagnosis. We don’t label your child, we teach them. If you want to know whether your child has dyslexia, a formal evaluation by a qualified professional is the right step, and we’ll point you to one.
For a child who is struggling severely, think of us as the daily engine that works alongside a specialist, not a full replacement for one. For everyone else, we bring many of a specialist’s daily routines home. We are practice, not a specialist.
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