Yes, We Can Read!

The new dyslexia-friendly one-to-one coaching resource with the free eye level reading ruler

Yes, we can read is a new one-to-one reading scheme for learners aged from 8 to 80 Yes we can read is a fun new phonics-based programme to develop reading for meaning. Anyone who can read fluently can teach a non or poor reader to read in six months or less. No training or other qualifications are required. One to one is the key! With its unique photo-alphabet, well-spaced text and easy-to-read font, this programme is ideal for learners with Dyslexia. Transform the life of your school and build community cohesion Learning Support Assistants, peer coaches, parents and volunteers will want to join the coaching reading adventure. If you can read... and have some spare time and a willing learner then you can give the life-long gift of reading to your child, or a friend, a relative, a workmate, your neighbour - to anyone! The two of you just need this book and a couple of hours a week for a few months. Who will you teach to read?
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“How marvellous to find a system that works for both coaches and learners. The key to unlocking literacy is to make it simple. This book will change lives…”
Minette Walters, Bestselling Author.

Yes We Can Read: 244 pages, A4. Price £35.00

One-to-one coaching

Anyone who can read will successfully coach their child, a relative, friend or neighbour to read fluently, using this one-to-one coaching method. The instructions for the coach are simple and jargon-free.

It works because one-to-one is the way we learn to read.

The pictures for learning letter-sounds correspond to the shapes of the letters they represent, removing a big hurdle for the learner - for example a pan for ‘p’, a tree for ‘t’. Photographs are used, rather than drawings, because many people with dyslexia see letters as 3-dimensional objects.

Starting with this simple method for learning the sounds of individual letters (phonics) the learner will discover how to blend these sounds together, soon articulating whole words. Those words which don’t follow the rules are learned in groups of Look Write Say words.

Because the reading adventure is broken into tiny steps, the learner is encouraged from the outset with regular small successes. Each successful step is rewarded with a tick, building the learner’s confidence as well as enabling the coach to identify immediately where a reading problem lies. This also means that if the coach has to discontinue, another coach can take over seamlessly.

The coach is shown how to overcome problems and turn any small difficulty into an opportunity for fun and shared games.

The learner’s fear of long words is removed through word sums and by a very simple method of breaking words into syllables, covering them up and revealing each word-part bit by bit.

The reading material is designed to be fun, and the learner will soon develop the habit of reading for meaning.

Yes we can read will not show you how to coach writing or handwriting or spelling but, if you work through every part of this book together, your learner will become a fluent reader.

Yes, we can read: one-to-one is the key!

Unique Photo Alphabet

A unique phonic alphabet, in which each object begins with the phonic-letter sound it represents and is also shaped like the letter itself. Photographs are used because many people with dyslexia see letters three-dimensionally. Vowels are highlighted in yellow. (A full colour A2-size poster is available to purchase.)

Yes We can Read photo alphabet

Where will you find your learner?

In your family or amongst your neighbours, friends and acquaintances
In your place of work, in factories, supermarkets, shops the armed forces, the fire service
In schools, if you are a learning assistant, a volunteer, a peer mentor, a student doing Duke of Edinburgh or other community work
In prisons or young offender institutions as a peer or volunteer
Abroad if you are on Voluntary Service Overseas
In your community, your church, youth and children’s centres or in social clubs
In the armed services and in the fire service amongst your peers
In hospital amongst long-term hospital patients
In your local volunteer bureau or scheme
In your university volunteer scheme or through your tutors or placement school if you are training to be a teacher
In your home school