PRIDE Reading Program
What is the PRIDE Reading Program?
The PRIDE Reading Program is an easy to use, structured literacy, Orton-Gillingham curriculum for children of all ages. This homeschool curriculum uses engaging, multisensory methods to teach reading, writing, spelling and comprehension.
Who Benefits From It?
Orton-Gillingham was developed specifically to teach struggling and non-readers how to read, write, spell and comprehend. While the method works with all children, it is especially successful for children with dyslexia, auditory and visual processing disorder, speech deficits and other learning differences. By utilizing this multisensory approach, you will be able to teach your child in the way that they need to learn.
Why Use the PRIDE Reading Program in Your Homeschool?
With the PRIDE Reading Program, there is no need for extensive training or advanced understanding of the spelling and reading rules that are being taught. PRIDE’s easy to follow, 100% scripted and lesson planned, step-by-step Teaching Guide will walk you through each skill and how to teach it, making this curriculum ideal for your homeschool. You do not have to develop any lesson plans or do any preparation. Everything in this program is laid out for you step by step. You will never feel overwhelmed. Each lesson includes everything you need to teach with confidence!
When Will my Child Complete the Program?
The PRIDE Reading Program consists of 6 levels (Levels 1-5), and a Pre-reading program. Choose a pace that works best for your child. The time spent teaching a lesson can be 20 minutes for a 5-6 year old, 30 minutes for a 6-8 year old, and possibly 45-60 minutes for an older child. Each level of the program typically delivers between 40 and 60 hours of instruction.
How do I know what's the best level for my child?
The PRIDE Reading Program follows a step-by-step progression based on the PRIDE Scope and Sequence. Use the PRIDE Placement Assessment to determine what level is best for your child. If you are to get started, click on the Placement Assessment link above.
PRIDE Reading Program Kits
- Beginning Consonants are for students who are ready to learn or are struggling with letter recognition.
- Beginning Consonants Program Kit includes Student Workbook, Online Teaching Guide and PRIDE Sound Cards.
- Your student will learn through fun multisensory activities such as sky writing, finger tracing, phonemic awareness and visualization.
- Yellow Book is designed to help your student learn their short vowels, FLOSS spelling rules, consonant digraphs, blends and sight words.
- Yellow Program Kit includes Student Workbook, Online Teaching Guide, PRIDE Sound Cards, PRIDE Letter Tiles and optional Whiteboard Activity Kit. Everything you need to teach the Yellow Program is included!
- Your student will learn through fun multisensory activities such as sky writing, arm tapping, letter building, sound association and visualization.
- Orange Book is designed to help your student learn their long vowels, multisyllabic words, welded sounds (ang, ink, etc.) and sight words.
- Orange Program Kit includes Student Workbook, Online Teaching Guide, PRIDE Sound Cards, PRIDE Letter Tiles and optional Whiteboard Activity Kit. Everything you need to teach the Orange Program is included!
- Your student will learn through fun multisensory activities such as sky writing, arm tapping, letter building, sound association and visualization.
- Red Book is designed to help your student learn words with long “i” and “e” patterns, vowel digraphs, closed syllable rules
(-ind, -ild, -old, -ost) and suffix ed. - Red Program Kit includes Student Workbook, Online Teaching Guide, PRIDE Sound Cards, PRIDE Letter Tiles and optional Whiteboard Activity Kit. Everything you need to teach the Red Program is included!
- Your student will learn through fun multisensory activities such as sky writing, arm tapping, letter building, sound association and visualization.
We always recommend placing your child in Beginning Consonants through the Red Program Kit – Level 3 no matter what age. If your child has already had PRIDE or Orton-Gillingham tutoring and you believe they might be able to start in Books 4 or 5, give us a call at (866) 774-3342 ext. 2 or use our contact form and we will be happy to help you order the level best suited for your child.
PRIDE Upper Levels, Accelerated Review,
& Reading Comprehension
PRIDE Purple Program Kit – Level 4
- Purple Book is designed to help your student learn vowel diphthongs, 3+ syllables, suffix es and syllable c+le (-ble, -fle, -kle, etc.)
- Purple Program Kit includes Student Workbook, Online Teaching Guide, PRIDE Sound Cards, PRIDE Letter Tiles and optional Whiteboard Activity Kit. Everything you need to teach the Purple Program is included!
- Your student will learn through fun multisensory activities such as sky writing, arm tapping, letter building, sound association and visualization.
PRIDE Blue Program Kit – Level 5
- Blue Book is designed to help your student learn open syllables, vowel diphthongs, silent letters, spelling rules, soft C & G, schwa sounds, and common suffixes & prefixes.
- Blue Program Kit includes Student Workbook, Online Teaching Guide, PRIDE Sound Cards, PRIDE Letter Tiles and optional Whiteboard Activity Kit. Everything you need to teach the Blue Program is included!
- Your student will learn through fun multisensory activities such as sky writing, arm tapping, letter building, sound association and visualization.
- Primary Accelerated Review (PAR) is designed to help older students quickly review and fill gaps in the following concepts: short vowels, FLOSS spelling rules, consonant digraphs, blends, long vowels, multisyllabic words, welded sounds (ang, ink, etc.) and sight words.
- PAR is for students that place in Level 3 or above but have gaps and need review in early level concepts.
- PAR Program Kit includes Student Workbook, Online Teaching Guide, PRIDE Sound Cards, PRIDE Letter Tiles and optional Whiteboard Activity Kit. Everything you need to teach the PAR Program is included!
- Your student will learn through fun multisensory activities such as sky writing, arm tapping, letter building, sound association and visualization.
- The PRIDE Reading Comprehension Program is designed to help your student learn to build reading comprehension skills with the introduction to concepts such as sequencing, predicting, visualizing, inferencing, and summarizing.
- The PRIDE Reading Comprehension Program Kit includes Student Workbook, Online Teaching Guide, PRIDE Question Cards and PRIDE Activity Kit. Everything you need to teach the PRIDE Reading Comprehension Program is included!
- Through carefully combined explicit and direct instruction with reading, writing, drawing and language activities, your student will practice and demonstrate their developing reading comprehension abilities.
- This program is designed for students who are in the upper levels of the PRIDE Reading Program or who need help acquiring reading comprehension skills.
How to Get Started with
the PRIDE Reading Program
1: Take our PRIDE Placement Assessment
The PRIDE Reading Program follows a step-by-step progression based on the PRIDE Scope and Sequence.
Use the PRIDE Placement Assessment to determine what level is best for your child.
Click any Program Placement button to get started.
2: Purchase Your Program Kit
After you have placed your child in the right book,
it’s time for you to order your book kit!
3: Start Your Online Training
Our PRIDE Reading Program Training course takes about 3 hours to complete. You can always access your courses by clicking on “PRIDE Reading Program” on our website bar!
4: Start Teaching
Once you complete our PRIDE Reading Program Training, you are ready to start teaching!
What People are Saying about PRIDE…
“I highly recommend PRIDE Reading Program. They utilize the Orton-Gillingham method and make it SUPER easy for you to use with your children at home!”
“Lessons are so detailed and thorough that” of the “popular Orton-Gillingham programs used by homeschoolers, PRIDE reading is the easiest to use.”
“I’m a special needs teacher. In my opinion, it is a perfect program that you can easily learn and teach. I highly recommend the PRIDE Reading Program.”
“I do Neuropsychological Assessments. I have seen a lot of progress with the children that have gone through PRIDE’s program. I highly recommend PRIDE.”
Orton-Gillingham Based Method
Our PRIDE Reading Program incorporates the Orton-Gillingham based method.
“For children with speech deficits, language deficits, or processing deficits, the repetitive nature of the Orton-Gillingham approach is perfect for them. This method utilizes a multisensory step-by-step process for your child to learn every phoneme in the English language.”
“There is a window of opportunity for kids between kindergarten and 2nd grade where if they don’t close their reading gaps before moving onto the next grade, that child will always struggle with reading and writing. It is important you close those gaps as soon as you can.”
“The Orton-Gillingham method is a process. For many students, this is actually the only program that does work for them. Our students are really, really smart kids that just need a different approach to learning.”
– Karina Richland, PRIDE Reading Program
