The I Can Read System is a bottom-up hierarchical approach which contains unique instructional methods designed to ensure success. It overcomes difficulties commonly associated with learners who have poor visual memories, weak phonemic skills and sequencing difficulties.
It removes ambiguities arising from words containing letter strings with pronunciation that is not intuitive. It is also ideal for any child who wants to be able to read and get a head start for primary school, or school children who are behind their reading age and want to improve reading (and all literacy) skills. The approach was designed to:
- be easy to teach and inexpensive to be trained as a provider;
- be easy to learn and independent of visual memory strengths;
- be fun to learn;
- be effective, empowering and lead to independent literacy skills;
- be relatively quick (students able to apply skills within six months).
I Can Read® is easy to teach because it is structured and systematic in its approach. Teachers simply follow the programme. It is easy to access for children because it does not require a strong visual memory on behalf of the student. It is fun and rewarding because it empowers children to appreciate the principles behind learning to read and to apply them.
A child assessed as ready to learn to read will be reading independently within six months (if attending weekly) and will retain and develop the skills acquired. The I Can Read System is one of the few instructional methodologies to have been subjected to controls designed to show how effective it is contrast to other approaches. (See website for statistical data.)
A number of studies have been conducted between 2000 and 2012 into how effective the approach is, and as of 2014 over 150,000 (mainly) children have successfully learnt to read through attending an I Can Read centre in the ASEAN region where there are about sixty ICR centres spread across the region. No child has failed to learn how to read after attending the ICR programme.
The approach favours methods that emphasise the alphabetic code, decoding and automatic word recognition. It is usually taught by a trained teacher in a small group environment and students mostly attend on a weekly basis for about one hour. The I Can Read System is available in specific locations in Australia and the service is provided by ICR licensed independent providers.
If you wish to locate a centre or if you are a teacher exploring a business opportunity or an investor, see us at www.icanreadsystem.com for more information.
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