Our Reading Program is being taught in various classrooms of public, parochial and private schools with excellent results.

The reading problem is the single greatest difficulty facing education. It is a problem that has a cure! Parents often ask us why aren’t the schools solving this problem? They’ve seen their child gain three grade levels, with comprehension, in 45 hours with Academic Associates.

If all the third graders in your school could read at or above grade level, using our program, would you be interested? Most people can’t believe a school wouldn’t be interested. What really bothers some folks is that over half of our high school students are below proficiency in reading. (A proficient reader reads and understands material at his/her grade level.)

When you incorporate Academic Associates into your school curriculum the students will achieve unprecedented reading gains within one year! This is what happened with a public school in Schulenburg, Texas. At the May testing, the kindergarten class, on average, were reading words two-thirds of the way into the first grade!  

Pre-K through grade two teachers were taught the Academic Associates Reading Program. At the end of this year all the teachers and the administration stated they will never go back to the other approach. “Academic Associates makes it so easy to use and the children learn so much.”

Schulenburg Elementary is committed to reducing their reading problem by using the Academic Associates Reading Program. The principal realized that the reading problem must be successfully tackled by the second grade. She put the young children first.

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	Phonemic Awareness	The ability to hear and manipulate sounds in words.
	Decoding Words	The ability to associate sounds with letters and use these sounds to form words.
	Vocabulary	To understand and use words to acquire and convey meaning.
	Fluency	The automatic ability to read words in connected text.
	Comprehension	To understand and apply knowledge from reading.  Becoming a proficient reader.

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For those who are seriously interested we have professional references that include school psychologists, administrators, reading teachers, classroom teachers and community leaders.

For individual teachers who desire to use the program in their classroom only we offer a special single teacher price. 800-861-9196

The longer it takes a poor reader to become a good reader, the more disadvantaged the student is.

If students are to succeed in school and in today's world, it is imperative they all become good readers by the third grade.

At an event organized by the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City and Commerce Bank, Gioia told a stark truth:

"Thirty-two percent of kids drop out of high school in the United States. As business leaders, you inherit that. People come to you for jobs who don't have a basic level of skills." The nation, he said, is suffering from 25 to 30 years of budget cuts by local school districts, which decimated arts education in the high schools. In some communities, only the children of wealthy parents who can afford private lessons are being exposed to music and other fine arts, he said.

That could mean fewer artists, fewer musicians, fewer authors will discover their creative muses. But equally important to the nation is that "we are not producing the next generation of audiences and arts patrons."
Nor the next generation of good workers. Nor the next generation of good citizens in a democracy.
So ask those job applicants if they read.

"The key is reading for pleasure," Gioia said. "A person who reads is more likely to engage in every form of civic behavior we can measure."

"Reading requires focused, linear attention -- the ability not to be distracted," he said. "Reading teaches information, syntax, vocabulary. ... It nourishes curiosity and rewards intellect."

Employer surveys often rank lack of communication skills, written and oral, as the biggest work force problem. They say their employees can't follow directions, can't write a memo, can't express themselves well.

U.S. businesses spend from $2 billion to $5 billion a year on remedial training in the three Rs to bring workers up to skill levels they need, Gioia said.