Easyread

Easyread

Easyread is a website I stumbled upon a few years ago.  I choose 5 children to trial it in school.  They were not children with dyslexia but were children who were having difficulty with reading at the beginning of year 2.  The children began the trial and all children made progress some exceeding expectations.  The following year I repeated this with a small group of year 2 children again.  The results were similar to the previous year.  What was clear from the small samples was that children with real specific difficulties did not make as much progress as the others however all the children involved did make either double or triple the rate of progress over a three month period.  The children access the intervention online and require minimal adult support although it is important to keep an eye on what each child is doing as I had one child who was very good at quickly clicking through the story.  This year I have begun a couple of children and both are again showing signs of making good progress.