Ann, Before you actually purchase "Reading Horizons", please check out "My Reading Coach".  I attended a vendor's session promoting "My Reading Coach" at the Florida Literacy Coalition conference in May and was VERY impressed.   I like it better than "Reading Horizons" as it has a more thorough assessment component. It offers a pretest that ensures that a student is assigned lessons that target only what the student needs.  It also provides a reading specialist and speech pathologist who pronounces the sounds for every student. Each student is given unique, specific feedback based on his or her responses. It monitors comprehension through literal and inferential questions. Embedded Teacher Intelligence  individualizes instruction to help each student reach grade level. They guarantee at least 10-30% increase in comprehension after 50 hours of instruction or your money back. 

We have been using S.O.S. (Strategies for Older Students) by Lexia.  We like it, but I am really anxious to try "My Reading Coach". We need to find resources to purchase it.

Go to www.mindplay.com for a demonstration of "My Reading Coach".

Betsy S. Gauss
Tutor/Certified Trainer
READ Polk/Lake Wales Literacy Council
Florida PTF for Adults With Learning Disabilities
Lake Wales, Florida

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ann Palmer 
  To: The Learning Disabilities Discussion List 
  Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 8:00 PM
  Subject: [LearningDisabilities 1328] Re: software suggestions


  Our Adult Literacy program is currently trying out a new program Reading Horizons, it is very phonic based and gets into everything.  YOu can view an example of this at the following site it is a free online training...www.phonicstraining.com
  good for 30 days once you log on.  
   
  Another program we use is Strategies for Older Students
   
  I hope this helps.

  Ann Palmer
  Tutor/Certified Trainer
  Site Coordinator
  Literacy Council of St. Petersburg

   
  Reading Is Fun!
   





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  > Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:51:40 -0300
  > From: HUTCHIDM at gov.ns.ca
  > To: learningdisabilities at nifl.gov
  > Subject: [LearningDisabilities 1327] software suggestions
  > 
  > Hello,
  > 
  > We are considering purchasing the following kinds of software to support literacy practitioners working with adults in community-based literacy programs (up to middle-school level) with diagnosed and undiagnosed LD:
  > - phonics instruction
  > - reading comprehension
  > - math
  > - science
  > 
  > Any tried and true suggestions?
  > 
  > Meredith 
  > 
  > Meredith Hutchings
  > Curriculum Consultant
  > NS Department of Education
  > Skills and Learning Branch
  > Adult Education Division
  > 4th Floor, 2021 Brunswick St.
  > P.O. Box 578
  > Halifax, NS B3J 2S9
  > (902) 424-1881 phone
  > (902) 424-1171 fax
  > hutchidm at gov.ns.ca
  > 
  > 
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