Category Archives: Product Reviews
Disney’s Brave and Other Beloved Children’s Stories Model Values: Book Suggestions and Activities
The best stories are the ones which give us an unanticipated and fortuitous glimpse into our own lives through the experiences of another. The best stories are the ones which touch our hearts in a place where a new dream …
Why Should Parents Care About Phonics Instruction?
Experience teaches us to be skeptical when things seem too good to be true, and it seems like 98% of the time an opportunity appears too amazing, something surely is amiss. But sometimes you find a wonderful thing that doesn’t …
Top Ten Reading Apps for Children
My little six-year-old grandson was playing on my iPhone the other day and asked me to download some new game applications – for the uninitiated – apps are smart phone, eReader and iPad applications. That’s when I realized that I’ve been missing …
Struggling Readers Are Everywhere. Help Them.
Yesterday, I attended the Utah Technology Council gathering at the State Capitol Rotunda. The purpose for going and setting up a vendor booth, at least for us, was to introduce the members of congress to the Reading Horizons product line and to …
Reading Horizons Software for Learning to Read: Product Review
When you work really hard at something, it is always exciting to see that your work has helped make someone’s life easier. That is why we were thrilled to find this blog post that one of our users wrote: http://www.whatabusylife.com/2010/07/21/a-great-reading-program-reading-horizons.html …
Special Needs Children and Home Schooling
There are many reasons why parents choose to home school their children. Sometimes it is economics or family dynamics, and sometimes it is poor school systems. But the primary reason that we hear more often than any other is that …
Reading Horizons Review by Home School Enrichment Magazine
The Home School Enrichment Magazine has published their review of the Discover Intensive Phonics for Yourself for ages 4-9 program in their September/October 2010 issue. The author is Cindy Puhek, and here are two quotes from her: “I felt like I had brought …
National Right to Read Foundation Recommends Reading Programs
The National Right to Read Foundation recommends both our ages 4-9 reading program, Discover Intensive Phonics for Yourself and the ages 10-adult reading program Reading Horizons. Along with roughly 30 other reading programs, both versions of our program are suggested, and a short …
The Old Schoolhouse Magazine Reading Products Review
We recently recieved a copy of the product review (a hearty recommendation!) completed by The Old Schoolhouse Magazine’s senior reviewer, Dr. Anne Margaret Wright about our program, Intensive Phonics (for ages 4-9) Software and Direct Instruction Materials- the simplest and …
