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1 to 1 tutoring is the most effective and efficient method of teaching a struggling reader to develop into a strong reader.

Are you looking for the BEST 1 to 1 tutoring program for your child to become a strong reader? Get Reading! is the best reading instruction program available. Get Reading! provides 1 to 1 tutoring that achieves the fastest results and most engaging program for teaching anyone to read. Get Reading’s founder, Margaret Bertram is a reading expert with a passion for helping every child (and adult) become a strong reader. Margaret’s 1 to 1 tutoring sessions are fast moving and comprehensive, covering reading, writing and spelling skills in a way that makes sense to the struggling reader. Margaret uses a proven 1 to 1 tutoring program that can help any child learn to read, often in as little as 10 to 20 hours of instruction! This program, called EBLI Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction,is the best reading program available. EBLI uses a speech to print method that links the unnatural process of reading to the already developed speech pathways in the brain. The results are astounding! Thousands of teachers and tutors around the world are using EBLI with the same remarkable results. Very quickly, your child will learn to read, write, and spell in weekly 1 to 1 tutoring sessions. Often only a few months of 1 to 1 tutoring is needed to help a child become a proficient reader, strong speller and competent writer.

In a nutshell, EBLI uses the speech sounds to teach your child:

Strong decoding skills developing to difficult words within weeks
Spelling strategies to help them spell complex multisyllable words, starting from the spoken word
All the foundations of excellent writing, starting from a word, to a sentence to a paragraph and an essay.
Perfect print handwriting that would impress your grandmother!
Develop a strong vocabulary to improve comprehension and writing quality
Reading fluency activities that help them read smoothly and quickly within weeks.
Reading comprehension tasks to encourage thinking about text as they read

At Get Reading! your child receives 1 to 1 tutoring anywhere from one hour per week to several hour-long sessions per week. Our goal is to rescue your child as quickly as possible to rebuild their self-esteem and get them on the road to being a happy, self-assured learner. You will see the difference within weeks. They will be so proud of themselves and be eager to show you what they now can do. Be sure to read our testimonials from clients expressing their amazement and appreciation for the remarkable change in their child after working with Get Reading!

Another option Get Reading! provides for homeschoolers, or parents wishing to help their own children learn to read at home, is a simple-to-teach program called Toe by Toe. Parents can purchase a Toe by Toe book for $40.00 and start right away. Margaret provides support and coaching for as long as you require. Toe by Toe was developed by a passionate and experienced teacher in the UK, named Keda Cowling. Keda created Toe by Toe over 20 years with practical implementation of her program within her home. She provided daily 1 to 1 tutoring to her students, refining and improving the program as she saw the impact of each activity. Keda personally taught hundreds of children to read with Toe by Toe, no matter their difficulty. The program is particularly successful with dyslexic students, and has been used to teach thousands of dyslexic children and adults since its first publication in 1993. She worked 1 to 1 tutoring students for 20 minutes per day for 6 months and successfully helped them all become strong readers. This work began in the 1970s. Without a large budget to market to the world and lobby politicians for Toe By Toe, news of Toe by Toe spread through word-of-mouth across the UK and beyond to where now, Toe by Toe has been used to teach children and adults to read across the world.
Toe by Toe does not require a trained teacher to teach someone to read, just someone who can read. Everything required to help the child is provided within the manual. All you need is the book, a pencil and a timer. The coach provides 20 minutes of 1 to 1 tutoring every day for 6 months. The child reads through each exercise and the coach marks a check if they were correct and a dot if they made an error or do not know. The coach explains the correct response and quickly moves on. Each exercise has to be repeated over three consecutives days, so the learning is reinforced and attempted three days in a row to achieve mastery. The coach’s role is to observe, give immediate feedback, mentor, cheer on, and provide a positive role model. This 1 to 1 tutoring is the most effective and efficient way for students to learn to read. Daily lessons provide constant learning and reinforcement which more easily assimilates into their long-term memory. The exercises are clearly presented, with a simple explanation for the coach on every page. The program begins with the single sounds of the alphabet, and starts teaching the learner to blend 2 sounds, 3 sounds and simple words. The constant repetition is very supportive for the learner, and very small increments in complexity allow anyone to progress easily. Some students take longer to progress, but that is fine. You move as quickly or slowly as they need.

Over the years, many schools around the world have adopted Toe by Toe as their primary intervention program for teaching reading to those students who have not progressed with the main classroom program. Their 1 to 1 tutoring sessions happen daily, and being only 20 minutes long, the sessions do not interfere greatly with the rest of the students’ learning program. Some schools have adopted a ‘buddy reading’ program where older students offer 1 to 1 tutoring to younger students in their school to teach them to read. These programs have been highly successful, benefiting both the older and younger students! Most intervention programs in schools take years and can often make little impact on the students’ reading skills. Toe by Toe is finished in 6 months and the students graduate on or above their grade level in reading, and go on to happy and successful learning in school and beyond. Toe by Toe changes lives!

Various projects have been implemented to teach reading beyond the school system.

Parents – Hundreds of thousands of parents around the world have taught their own child to read with Toe by Toe, and experienced the joy of seeing their child blossom from an unhappy, frustrated, and often angry struggling reader into a self-confident, proud strong reader. It really is the ideal option for parents and especially homeschooling parents who have been tearing their hair out trying to help their child become a reader. $40.00, 20 minutes per day, for 6 months and the problem is solved.

Private tutors have found the program to be the best resource for teaching students to read in 1 to 1 tutoring, because there is no preparation required before the lesson and no correction after the lesson. Everything is contained within the book. You just pick up where you left off the day before.

Prison inmates in the UK have used Toe by Toe to teach their fellow inmates to read. This project continued for some years with the support of a retired military officer wanting to give back to his community. The project began with this officer providing 1 to 1 tutoring to inmates.

Afterschool care programs have also adopted Toe by Toe as a perfect solution to supporting students in their care in learning to read. Carers do not need teaching credentials to provide the 1 to 1 tutoring with Toe by Toe. To avoid the legal problems involved in working 1 to 1 on their own, several carers will each tutor a child within the same room. These programs have been extremely rewarding experiences for the carers, as there is nothing more fulfilling than watching a child you have tutored successfully develop into a strong reader.

Did you know that 66% of 12 year olds in the USA are unable to read at a proficient standard, and more than 40% are unable to read beyond a kindergarten level. This is the richest country in the world, spending per capita, more than any other country in the world on its public education system! To address this tragic and shameful problem, Margaret is working with a team of passionate and determined educators, parents and community-minded citizens to address the scourge of illiteracy in the USA and across the world. This team is developing projects in their local communities to teach reading to anyone who needs it, educating their communities of the dire state of illiteracy in America, and above all to share the good news, that we have solutions! Both EBLI and Toe by Toe are effective and efficient solutions that we could employ right away to turn this ship around. We need the citizens of this country to step up and solve this problem. The education system and political systems have been too slow, too resistant, too oppositional to make the changes needed. We the people, who love our kids and want them to succeed must take all the steps we can to see to it that every child (and adult who wants it) must be taught to read.

There is NOTHING WRONG WITH THE CHILD OR ADULT! This message should be emphasized everywhere. If the problem was the learner we would be unable to teach some people to read. But that is not the case. EBLI and Toe by Toe have proven that anyone can be taught to read, no matter their label, diagnosis or traits. We have to come together to start teaching these children, now. But how can we proceed?

We can:

Teach a child to read, ourselves. Use Toe by Toe https://toebytoeusa.com/ or get training in EBLI. https://eblireads.com/.
Once you have taught one person to read, you can start your own business tutoring people to read.
Find a local EBLI trained tutor and give a tutor a Toe by Toe manual to use
Pass it forward! Share this information with everyone you know!
Form a community action group to educate your community about the tragic state of illiteracy and share the solutions available to us. Then …..
- Communicate with your state education departments to get EBLI and Toe by Toe used in schools (big money publishing companies currently dominate the market through lobbying and other influence campaigns. These programs have NOT WORKED! It’s time to put pressure on our representatives to wake up and get the proven programs into our schools.
- Reach out to homeschool co-operatives to share the ease and effectiveness of teaching a child to read with EBLI and Toe by Toe.
- Partner with charities and philanthropic groups to provide tutoring to the poor and marginalized in your community. What better social justice project than teaching the poor to read.
- Offer reading programs in libraries for the poor, homeless people, illiterate people in your community too ashamed to admit their difficulty, everyone!

The BEST READING PROGRAM for any struggling reader.

Do you want the best reading program around that will help your child become a strong reader, no matter their challenges, labels, diagnoses or personality traits? Margaret Bertram is an international reading expert and master tutor who has a lifetime’s experience teaching kids to read, and coaching teachers in effective reading practice. After all this experience and research, two programs stand out for her and she has used these programs to turn around the lives of hundreds of students.

EBLI https://eblireads.com/ will have your child reading in around 10-20 hours of instruction, and they will be able to spell, write fluently and have beautiful handwriting to boot!

Toe by Toe https://toebytoeusa.com/ for only $40.00 and 20 m minutes a day, you can teach anyone to read in around 6 months. No need for a teacher, you can do it yourself.

Other well-known, corporate reading tutoring programs, that you may even have tried require years of tutoring, often tens of thousands of dollars and show slow progress for any measurable results to be obvious. Get Reading! provides only the best reading programs and gets results FAST. Students learn that reading is speech written down, and work from the sounds to decode and encode words in English. This is the best reading program Margaret has ever used, with results never before seen in achieving reading success. If your child is a struggling reader, you must act now! The longer you delay, the more entrenched is the struggling reader’s belief that there is something wrong with them and they will never learn to read well. Find the best reading program that will help your child become a strong reader as quickly as possible. You will change their life! So many difficulties result from poor progress in reading. All learning is difficult, school is frustrating and upsetting, homework is a chore, any reading or writing they do is a struggle that reminds them that they are not successful. Low self-esteem and behavior problems often result and much unhappiness in the home is common. We could go on and on about the impact this has on someone’s life prospects – poverty, unemployment, drug and alcohol problems, crime and even prison. Your child deserves the BEST reading program and the BEST tutor to get them on track and enjoying school. A strong reader finds learning easy, reading relaxing and the future open to them choosing to be and do whatever they dream of.

You are not alone in dealing with a child or other loved one struggling to read. The statistics are mortifying! 66% of American 12 years are unable to read at a proficient level, and more than 40% can barely read at the kindergarten level. Let that sink in for a moment. Our education system is hundreds of years old and we still cannot get more than a third of our students reading? How can that be? And, this is despite trillions of dollars being spent on education by our US government over the recent decades. We can whine and blame and castigate those in charge of education, or we can ACT NOW!

ANYONE CAN LEARN TO READ!

The popular myth persists that some kids will just never learn to read and we have to live with that. They do NOT have to live with that! You need the BEST READING PROGRAM you can find. And after a lifetime of research and teaching experience, Margaret has found the two most effective and efficient programs to teach ANYONE to read.

Toe by Toe https://toebytoeusa.com/ costs $40.00 for a manual that provides everything you need to teach your own child to read. Toe by Toe will teach an adult teenager or child (7 years is suggested as the youngest age to start). You do not need to be a teacher, the program is so comprehensive and simple to use that even a teenager can teach a child to read.

EBLI – https://eblireads.com/ require a trained instructor, but no teaching credentials. Once trained the EBLI teacher can teach a child to read in record time. This program is so comprehensive, that the child not only learns to read proficiently, but they learn to spell, write and understand vocabulary like a pro!

What can I do?

Don’t despair! Once you have the best reading program you are in safe hands.

Teach your child to read, yourself. Toe by Toe requires no training, and Margaret can help you get started. In fact she will mentor you as long as you need.

Train in EBLI and teach everyone you know who needs to learn to read. In fact, start a business and use your new-found gift to turn around the lives of as many struggling readers as you can! Go online at https://eblireads.com/ and see for yourself. Join a community of passionate reading teachers who will encourage and guide you through the process. The course is self-paced, online and very supportive for anyone wanting to become a reading SUPERHERO! EBLI really is the best reading program Margaret has ever worked with, with results that are unheard of in teaching reading. In fact, until Margaret trained in EBLI, she could not believe that anyone could learn to read so quickly and effortlessly! Now she is a true believer. She has seen it in her own teaching, with students growing 3-5 reading ages in 2 months! That is a revolution! A game changer!

We could end illiteracy in this country within a year, if we had the will of the people. That will take educating people about a) the devastating illiteracy problem faced by the kids of America, and b) the solution – Toe by Toe or EBLI are the best reading programs to end this outrageous problem. Then we must provide access to these solutions. Toe by Toe, at $40.00 is the best reading program for people who wish to teach their own child to read. EBLI is the best reading program for people who want a tutor (or to become a tutor) to teach their child to read, write and spell like a champ!