Skills Training Outside of School

Parents want and need to be involved in the process of training their child to be a fluent reader and schools need to include them in that process.

In a home setting parents are not required to “teach” their child but rather support them in their training. The MD4 Reading does the training and controls the process so there is no “Homework” hassle.
Students and parents are busy, sometimes it may appear that a literacy problem is taking a back seat to life’s other issues. Educators know that a struggling reader is not going to outgrow their difficulties and that accommodations often just hide the underlying problem. School systems understand  that there is a price to pay for not keeping parents in the loop and using their powerful influence to help the struggling reader. The MD4 Reading program helps parents motivate the struggling readers and participate in the remediation process.

• Effectively doubles the amount of training a struggling reader can receive in a day.
• Informs parents that there is an intervention in place and they are part of it.
• Extends the school year for struggling readers by allowing them to train during vacation periods.
• Reduces the overall amount of time that the struggling reader needs to be in training.
• Shares progress and performance across all stakeholders.
• Helps inform the community of the efforts of the school to remediate their struggling readers.

Whether it is in school or at home each MD4 Reading session is controlled and directed so that the student, the teacher and parent need not worry about what is being taught or when it is taught. All the “prerequisite” cognitive and phonological skills are taught and trained within the MD4 Reading matrix so that as the process unfolds the struggling reader builds the skills required for reading and is shown how to use those skills so they actually become a fluent reader.