Happy Cheetah Reading

Happy Cheetah Reading is an intuitive, enjoyable approach to reading that will help you teach your child to read in just 20 minutes a day. . .regardless of whether they're a new beginning reader, a struggling older reader, or are an ESL or special needs student. Covering reading, handwriting, vocabulary acquisition, spelling, grammar, and creative writing, this efficient program will set up students for language arts success.

Because the research shows that copywork is integral to helping students learn to read quickly and easily, the Happy Cheetah Reading System starts with handwriting, then moves to phonics, where students learn the connection between sounds and written letters.

The Getting Ready workbook introduces your students to printing by hand. It uses a developmentally appropriate sequence for both capital and lowercase letters, so all beginning writers learn in the most efficient and easy way possible. It also uses a unique font designed to address common handwriting problems such as letter reversals.

After they learn to print all the individual letters, students move into beginning copywork (which encourages swift reading development) and then they work on hearing individual sounds in words (also called phonemic awareness), and finally practice writing numerals.

After this book, which you can work through at your student's pace, you'll move into the Cub Starting workbook. This workbook ties together with the controlled readers, and your student will read thirty stories in these three readers.

This kit includes:

• Getting Ready Workbook Prep (Consumable)

• Cub Starting Workbook 1 (Consumable)
• My Family: Reader 1
• Nana and Papa: Reader 2
• Things I Like: Reader 3
• Exclusive Happy Cheetah Reading Card Game Set
• Exclusive Happy Cheetah Reading Whiteboard and Markers
• Exclusive Happy Cheetah Reading Magnetic Letters
• Exclusive Happy Cheetah Reading Alphabet Cards
• Bonus 1: How to Raise Your Child's Reading Level in Half the Time...
• Bonus 2: Foolproof Stop Reversing B and D Forever Bookmarks
• Bonus 3: The #1 Optometrist-Recommended Guide for Reading

Happy Cheetah Reading is an intuitive, enjoyable approach to reading that will help you teach your child to read in just 20 minutes a day. . .regardless of whether they're a new beginning reader, a struggling older reader, or are an ESL or special needs student. Covering reading, handwriting, vocabulary acquisition, spelling, grammar, and creative writing, this efficient program will set up students for language arts success.

In this first grade language arts program, your child will work through the Cub Walking and Cub Running workbooks, plus the integrated readers, which build on the Kindergarten-level curriculum.

In this level, your student will read thirty-five stories that will help them progress from reading simple sentences to longer, more complex reading selections. Working through the workbook and the readers in tandem, your student will grow in confidence with reading and writing, continue to develop the ability to hear individual sounds in words (phonemic awareness), learn a surprising amount of new vocabulary, and become more fluent in their reading abilities. Regular copywork encourages swift reading development while other enjoyable exercises keep your student interested while improving skills.

This Kit Includes:

• Cub Walking Workbook 2 (Consumable)
• Cub Running Workbook 3 (Consumable)
• My Day: Reader 4
• We Have Fun: Reader 5
• Home and Farm Animals: Reader 6
• Bugs and Small Animals: Reader 7
• Land and Sea Animals: Reader 8
• Zoo Animals: Reader 9
• Magnetic Letters
• Bonus 1: The Success Students' Cheat Codes
• Bonus 2: Foolproof Stop Reversing B and D Forever Bookmarks
• Bonus 3: The #1 Optometrist-Recommended Guide for Reading

Happy Cheetah Reading is an intuitive, enjoyable approach to reading that will help you teach your child to read in just 20 minutes a day. . . regardless of whether they're a new beginning reader, a struggling older reader, or are an ESL or special needs student. Covering reading, handwriting, vocabulary acquisition, spelling, grammar, and creative writing, this efficient program will set up students for language arts success.

With much of the groundwork of early reading already laid in the Kindergarten and Grade 1 programs, this year your child will rapidly move ahead in vocabulary acquisition and reading fluency. With the Cheetah Ready workbook, the rate of learning accelerates. As students read ever longer passages-with several short paragraphs per page-they continue to grow reading confidence and fluency.

About two-thirds of the way through the year, your student will transition to reading beginning chapter books, so that, by the end of this year, your student will be ready to step out more confidently into the larger world of reading. Your student will also enjoy a continued emphasis on copywork, and a deeper focus on spelling.

This Grade 2 kit includes:

• Cheetah Ready Workbook 4 (Consumable)
• Colored Pencils
• Birds and Jobs: Reader 10
• Fairy Tales Retold, Part I: Reader 11
• Fairy Tales Retold, Part II: Reader 12
• Cheetah Reading Schedule
• Hill of Fire
• Greg's Microscope
• The Big Balloon Race
• Wagon Wheels
• Nate the Great

This kit contains three recommended tools that the author of "Happy Cheetah Reading" uses in her clinical practice, plus a bonus resource:

Constant Encouragement Button

Give constant encouragement with a button that says "That was Easy!" Have your students hit the encouragement button after reading each review story, after reading each new story, after reading the printed story in the workbook, after each of the Think-and-Do exercises, after each sentence copied and read. . . . Basically, as often as you can reasonably suggest it. Batteries included.

Preferred Pencil Grip for Perfect Practice

After trying many brands of pencil grip, this is the one that Dr. Karen found works best. She offers these to all students who come to her office-and now to you, too. Good for both right-handed and left-handed students, this will help your students hold their pencils correctly.

Mistake-Covering Tape

When Dr. Karen works with students, she always keeps this tape at hand. Whenever students make an error, she immediately covers it up, because the less time students look at an error, the better! Stop worrying about misplaced erasers and the shadowy, show-through lines that can't be fully erased. Instant correction, and a clean piece of paper!

BONUS: Exclusive Top 100 Most Value-Rich Audio Recordings

For struggling readers, one of the most valuable things you can do is let them listen to books as much as possible. Since most parents don't have eight to twelve hours to read aloud, audio books become one of the best ways to build the pathways in the brain to help a student learn to read as quickly as possible.

The best children's audio books are the ones they return to again and again. The ones that offer the best value for their price. The ones that a range of ages enjoy. The ones that enhance the audio book art form the most, where the recording is not just a book that's read aloud, but a book that comes alive through a skillful narrator.

From this list, the books are divided out according to age and according to personal preference, from the very greatest must listens, to the ones the author and her children still like much.