Reading HorizonsReviews of readinghorizons.com

Reading Horizons is a phonic program we use schoolwide. The lessons are easy to use and engaging for the students. The phonics rules make sense to the students and is the reason most of our students are readers. The scope and sequence of the Reading Horizon lessons helps get kids into connected text as soon as possible. The lesson format stays the same so you know exactly what to do every day. But at the same time, there are so many games and activities you can use in the sequence, that it is never boring. The online resources are top-notch. I used the training videos to help train my teachers in using the program. The company is very responsive to need. They even sponsor after school trainings and they provided dinner for our teachers. It was a party of phonics games!

This is an AMAZING way to teach phonics. Teachers at my school love using it Tier 1. The process Reading Horizons uses is easy to follow and it works. Teachers can easily follow the curriculum. The online resources Reading Horizons provides are very helpful and just plain AWESOME. We are using the Reading Horizons software this year and are loving it so far. Using RH K-3 also allows us to be consistent across grade levels in the way we are teaching phonics. We are using the elevate software for older grades but as more of a type of intervention. I really support using this program!

As a new teacher I struggled to teach phonics in a way that made sense to my students. I found myself often explaining a concept with "that's the way English works". Reading Horizons taught me how to teach phonics to my students in a meaningful way. My students are able to understand the why behind spelling. My students have grown so much since I've started using the program in my classroom.

I am so grateful to have this program. I moved from 3rd grade to 2nd grade. With the pandemic, 50% of my students are below grade level. I am hoping this will help to bring them to grade level!

Reading Horizons has changed my phonics instruction! Never have I used a program that had such a systematic and explicit approach to phonics instruction. RH helps develop routines and procedures that provide meaningful support for various types of learners, including kinesthetic and auditory learners. Learning to identify the 5 Phonics Skills and using the marking system helps my students as we tackle increasingly difficult text. In 2nd Grade most of our students come with the knowledge of RH phonics so we use beginning lessons and little books to provide intervention while we review and practice all RH skills through dictation and daily reading passages as a whole group. I am thankful I have had the opportunity to use Reading Horizons in both my 1st and 2nd Grade classrooms!

This is my 14th year teaching either first grade or kindergarten. I first heard about Reading Horizons 3 years ago because my son came home from first grade with marks all over his papers and when I asked him what the marks were he could explain it in detail. When he got to the c & k lesson and could tell me that “c takes i and e, k takes the other 3” I suddenly realized that my first grade son knew more about phonics than I did and I had been teaching phonics for 11 years! I decided right then and there that I was going to figure out what this amazing program was. I’ve been in love with Reading Horizons ever since, and so have my students! My students are so engaged and we all love it. Teaching phonics is hands down my most favorite part of my day, everyday! I love how explicit it is and how easy it is to implement. There are so many games and activities that can be paired with the program and their staff is amazing. The trainings are fun and informative and their website is packed with amazing digital and supplemental materials. I feel so empowered using Reading Horizons; I highly suggest the program to anyone interested in using it!

I have been teaching primary grades for 12 years now and have always struggled with teaching phonics and spelling. So when I found Reading Horizons I was hooked. Now I understand why things are the way they are and it makes sense to my students as well. The lessons, the software and spelling all go hand in hand and provide a review so that you can I have been teaching primary grades for 12 years now and have always struggled with teaching phonics and spelling. So when I found Reading Horizons I was hooked. I love how now I understand why things are the way they are and it makes sense for my students. The lessons, the Discovery software and spelling lessons all go hand in hand and provide a refresher of the skills taught. I feel like I can't say enough good about Reading Horizons. I'm impressed how they provide so many professional development trainings to help teachers be successful in teaching the program and understanding phonics. Jenna is the best and is always willing to answer my questions no matter how weird they may be. My first year teaching Reading Horizons, I had a little boy who only spoke Russian and was just learning English. So when I started using RH with him, I was able to see him pick up things so quickly and point out the blends, and digraphs out in stories or whenever he saw them. By the end of the school year he was reading almost on grade level, was writing words phonetically, and excited about the daily RH lessons. I know that I owe that success to using the Reading Horizons program and the tools that I was given to teach it. I look forward to seeing the impact that teaching the Reading Horizons has on my students this year who are part of the Covid19 soft closure this past spring. Melinda Littlewood 1st grade Teacher

Reading Horizons is by far the BEST program I have ever used to teach phonics! Using Reading Horizons makes reading make sense! My students every year make huge growth using this program and become excellent decoders. I myself even learned things about reading after using it. I honestly and truly feel like this program helps ensure students don’t have “holes” in their phonics learning and become strong readers. Before using this program, many of our school’s first grade students were not performing well on the DIBELS test. After implementing this program our scores have drastically changed and our students are much stronger readers. I am so grateful to use this wonderful program!