With the competitive and sometimes brutal world we live in, your child needs every advantage he or she can get. As adults, we know that having an edge is not only good but necessary. And you really can’t start too soon. The NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) states – Reading is one of the most important skills that young people can acquire and develop throughout their lives. Assessments are done every two years; 2017 will be out early 2018. But what we have learned between the assessment done in 2015 compared to 2013 is that our results are unchanged for the 4th grade point and lower for those of 8th grade. That is troubling news and we need to take action. Reading Head Start is a fabulous place to begin.
Why Use Reading Head Start?
The Reading Head Start approach is one of the most well researched and highly successful reading strategies available for young kids. And it’s so crucial to get a head start on kids’ reading success at an early age. Not only does early reading success predict reading success at older ages… it predicts success across the board, in any subject.
As parents, it is a challenge to find the balance between letting a kid be a kid and then arming them with the skills they need going forward…trust me I know. That is why this program is so great…it is learning made fun!
Toddler Word Level Predicts Success
Did you know kids prepare for their reading education years before even reading their first book? That’s because 90% of a child’s brain is developed by age three. That means that by age three, a child’s vocabulary can predict third-grade reading proficiency. That’s why it’s so important to get started early using a system that works for kids!
Once Behind, It’s Difficult to Catch Up
- 37% of children today enter Kindergarten without the skills necessary to begin their learning journey and that’s very worrisome.
- And if a child isn’t reading at grade level by that point, there’s an 88% likelihood that he will still be behind in reading by fourth grade.
- And that could change their entire lives, because…
Poor Reading Leads to Dropping Out And Poverty
Children who are not reading at grade level by fourth grade are four times more likely to drop out of school. And thirteen times more likely to drop out if they also live in poverty. Did you know that one out of seven adults have such low literacy skills that they can’t read anything beyond a child’s picture book? Illiteracy doesn’t just lead to low self-esteem. It also leads to poverty and crime.
9 OUT OF 10 PARENTS AGREE THAT ENROLLING YOUR CHILD IN READING HEAD START IS A SMART DECISION!
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