Reading is important for students’ success
Students who read well do better in school. Adults who read well do better on the job. When you can read, a world of information is open to you—in books, in magazines and newspapers, and on the internet.
Developing readers need extra help. One Minute Reader is a fun and effective home reading program that can help students read better. It motivates students to improve their fluency, a key factor in becoming better readers.
The next step beyond phonics. Some reading programs emphasize phonics, a basic skill for beginning readers. But in order to become capable readers, students need more. The next step is to develop fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary—areas that One Minute Reader focuses on.
One Minute Reader was developed by
Read Naturally, whose classroom
programs have helped thousands of struggling readers.
Years
of experience with pioneering fluency
programs have gone into developing One Minute Reader for
the home.
More than just interesting stories
One Minute Reader is more than just a book of interesting stories. It's a system for improving reading fluency, especially for people who struggle with reading. Preview a sample story
Take time for fluency. Fluency means you can read as easily as you can speak. When you can read fluently, you understand what you read and you enjoy reading.
People who aren’t fluent hesitate when they read. They have to figure out the words and often don’t understand what they read. Because of their poor reading skills, they may avoid reading altogether.
One Minute Reader is designed to help kids improve their reading fluency. One Minute Reader includes interesting stories, fun activities like puzzles, and graphs that show kids’ progress to motivate them to read more and read better.
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Free web-based overview of One Minute Reader |
Read Along… Read Alone… Raise Your Score!
These are the principles that make One Minute Reader so effective. Students read each story several times, following a specific series of steps designed to make sure they learn to read correctly, read faster, and understand what they read.
Read Along
Students read the story aloud while listening to an audio CD of the story. This teaches them how to pronounce new words and reviews and reinforces words they already know.
Read Alone
After reading along, students read alone several times. By practicing the story, they master the story and many of the words in it.
Raise Your Score
Students time themselves before and after they read along and read alone. A graph of their growth motivates them to keep improving