Your reluctant readers need to try something different...
After years of frustration stuck on a reading plateau, students need to try something different, to get them progressing again.
Reading Copilot is our new evidence-based solution, that has been seeing great results. See below.
You can test it without any financial risk. If you work with us on the Three Steps to Success, you can withdraw from the process and cancel at any stage. We trust you to treat us fairly.
The Three Steps to Success
Step 1: A 60-minute team training session. This covers the causes of reading frustration and what the right intervention is for each cause.
Step 2: We will collaborate with you on assessing your first groups of students and creating Individual Intervention Plans for each of them. It takes around 15 minutes per student.
Step 3: We will guide you through implementing these IIPs over the next 15 weeks, to ensure a good catch-up path for each student.
What to Expect
You probably won’t believe what is possible when I tell you. But seeing is believing…
We will expect an instant solution for around 30% of your struggling readers. Once the real cause of difficulty is identified, usually those students become functional readers during the assessment process.
The rest will need short daily sessions with our trainertext resources. Our expectation is an early rate of progress of around 8-12 months of progress per month of intervention, based on 10 minutes of intervention per day.
Practical to Implement
Reading Copilot is very practical to deliver because a single TA can manage each 10-minute session for a group of 5-10 students, as they work independently in the trainertext library.
There may be one or two student who need more input within the group, but the average will still be 1-2 minutes of input per student per day, to see the gap closing fast.
We can give you a quick tour of the resources to see how they work:
What Teachers are Saying
Watch Some Transformations
Here are some videos to give you a feel for the sort of transformation that is possible, even after years of prior frustration.
Each video is a before and after view of their reading:
James, age 15:
Lowena, age 10:
Aria, age 10:
Age Appropriate
We have suitable formatting and suitable content for the full range of ages. That is critical for achieving good engagement.
Hands Free and Quick
The system is designed so that the student can do their daily sessions unassisted.
This is important for building their psychology of ability and autonomy.
It also means that a single teaching assistant can. monitor a group of 5-10 students doing the daily reading practice in just 10 minutes.
Holistic
There are three main reasons for persistent reading frustration:
1 – Visual Issues. Despite having passed an eye test, some students struggle with small text.
2 – Decoding Weakness. Despite years of phonics, some students keep guessing short words.
3 – Poor Comprehension. Some students can read accurately, but struggle with comprehension.
It is only when you deliver a solution to each and every difficulty a child has, that you can expect dramatic progress. Our Baseline Analytical Reading Test (BART) will deliver a clear review of exactly what is causing frustration for an individual child.
Evidence Based
You can check the results of the randomised control trial done by the Open University here. The cohort of 90 children were 2+ years behind and all caught up bar one within 6 months of trainertext intervention. You can read a summary here.
We have been delivering reading intervention processes since 2008 and have worked directly with over 15,000 reluctant readers and dyslexics.
We are always testing new techniques, but all the elements of our core processes have been tested many times.
Expert Supported
The process will be overseen by one of the team here, who is trained on the patterns of all nine potential causes of reading frustration that we track.
They are there to make sure you achieve the best and fastest results with all the interventions you are running. That will save you from wasted time and doubts about what is possible.
This also removes the need for lengthy training processes. You can get started right away.
Cost Effective
Our aim is for Reading Copilot to be practical to implement. So the staff costs are low and the financial costs are low as well.
Implementing the Three Steps to Success costs £750/€850/$950. Ongoing costs will depend on the size of your school and the level of ongoing support you require.
All of this will be much less than the ongoing costs of reading frustrations in the school.
Life Changing for Every Teacher and Student
The sad truth is that many of these students can begin to despair of being successful in school.
Sometimes that frustration can lead to deteriorating behaviour patterns, which impacts the daily experience of every teacher and student in the school.
When they break through to a strong level of functional reading, it often transforms them as individuals and improves everyone’s lives.
Get in Touch
If you would like to explore Reading Copilot further, just book into our diary to have a chat on Google Meet: