Bridge to Reading
Your child will learn to read by reading with Bridge to Reading. From the very first page, your child is reading sentences in a fairy tale adventure.
Quick
In as little as a week, your child can make the leap from ready-to-read to reading “easy reader” books.
Fun
There are many activities—bike riding, swimming, skiing—where you need to gain a certain proficiency before the activity becomes rewarding. This can be discouraging to almost-readers, and make them into reluctant readers. An animated computer program can start with a story from the very first page, so reading is fun from the very beginning.
Effective
The child is interested in what happens next in the story and delighted by his increasing skill. Words learned in a meaningful context are retained in long-term memory, unlike words learned by rote. At the end of Bridge to Reading, your child will know 105 common words (including 77 Dolch “service” words), so your child will find many of the words in early reading books familiar.