The Bravo! Reading System
Designed for kids with dyslexia…works for anyone!
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The Dark Cloud of Poor Reading
When your child struggles to read, it can be a dark cloud hanging over the entire family. If your child has dyslexia or has a difficult time sounding out words, you may have lost hope. Maybe you’ve tried workbooks, flashcards, phonics sheets. But nothing seems to help. Your child falls further and further behind.
But keep this in mind. There’s nothing wrong with your child. It’s just that your child speaks a different “learning language” and needs simple tools to translate that language into reading success.
The Bravo! Reading System gives your child the tools to read and decode flawlessly…in a fun, easy way so you don’t have to pull out your hair. No teacher’s manuals. No flash cards. No long-term set up. Just quick, easy, fun activities you receive right away as a digital file so you can start helping your child read and decode today!
Bravo! Reading…Because Traditional Methods Don’t Work for Kids with Dyslexia!
Since kids with dyslexia learn differently than other children, they need a different reading program. Traditional reading programs are designed to deal with the masses. They work fine for kids who don’t have dyslexia or other learning issues.
Movement is the main learning sense for a child with dyslexia. This means your child needs movement to build strong reading skills. And not just any movement will do. Your child needs to use large motor movements to help drive in crucial decoding skills.
Traditional Reading Programs Don’t Work for Kids with Dyslexia!
Traditional programs rely on phonics, flashcards, and “drill and kill” methods to teach a child to read. These methods work for most kids, but to a child with dyslexia, it’s like speaking a foreign language. Because kids with dyslexia are hands-on learners, they need to move to learn. Also, they are usually right-brain dominant learners. This means they learn by seeing and perceiving a “whole” instead of piecemeal learning. They also learn through color, pictures, creativity, music, and rhythm.
Since phonics is a left-brain dominant activity, this makes traditional learning methods difficult for the dyslexic child.
Movement, Brain-Based, and More!
If your child has dyslexia, then a different method is needed to teach your child how to decode words. You see, decoding is the backbone of reading. It gives your child strategies to sound out new and unfamiliar words. This takes the guesswork out of reading!
But decoding doesn’t come easily to kids with dyslexia. They need taught in a different way. They need movement, color, pictures, brain-based learning, predictability, and a multisensory approach – all used in the Bravo! Reading System.
Since kids with dyslexia are tactile or hands-on learners, they need to move to learn. But not just any kind of movement will do. Children with dyslexia need large motor movements to truly set in learning. Even better, they enjoy learning when large motor movements are involved.
Brain-based learning makes a huge difference for kids with dyslexia as well. Brain-based learning involves keeping kids engaged physically so that learning outcomes can be better. There’s a lot more that goes into brain-based learning such as lessening stress, shortened instruction times, opportunities to explore, and remapping the brain through repetetive movements.
Just keep in mind that this is exactly how kids with dyslexia do best when learning something! And they do much better if they have a decoding program that uses large motor movements and brain-based learning!
Turn Your Child Into a Reading Shark with the Bravo! Reading System!
The Bravo! Reading System
Eleven Levels of Movement to Drive in Decoding Skills
The Bravo! Reading System uses movement to drive in decoding skills. Your child uses dot dabbers or bingo markers while pounding letters, blends, or other decoding symbols and saying sounds out loud at the same time. This engages the arm, the shoulder, and the hand to ensure large motor movements are used. It’s also multisensory – on steroids! Multisensory means that visual, auditory, and tactile methods are used.
Phonemes, small units of sound, are also a huge component of the Bravo! Reading System. These small units of sound are what words are built upon in our language. Examples of phonemes are “im”, “ud”, “ax”, “op”, and “eb”.
From there, your child builds on these small units until multi-syllable words are read with ease.
But your child also needs brain-based learning in order to ensure reading success. This ties movement with learning and takes away stress in the process. Remapping of the brain occurs while your child pounds letters and blends, sliding a dot dabber over the Silent E Slide, or combining two letters together to make one new and unique sound.
A multi-sensory approach is also necessary because kids with dyslexia are usually weak in visual and auditory processing skills. Traditional reading programs and schools in general rely on visual and auditory means to teach skills.
This simply doesn’t work for a child with dyslexia!
The Bravo! Reading System shows your child how to read – one step at a time, through a series of researched backed activities. Even better, the Bravo! Reading System has been used in the Harp Learning Institute Learning centers for over twenty-four years with an amazing success rate. The average jump students make through the course of the program is five grade levels!
That’s remarkable!
How Bravo! Reading Can Turn Your Word Guesser into a Confident Reader
The Double Letter Jab!
Kids love Level 1 of Bravo! Reading. This beginning level teaches your child how to blend two letters together to form a word. This is one of the most important skills readers need, yet traditional reading programs fail to spend enough time letting learners explore this important skill.
Most reading programs take children straight from letter sounds to sounding out three-letter words. This is a huge mistake for the child with dyslexia, as blending letters together is difficult to start with. The dyslexic student needs more time with two-letter words.
The Double Letter Jab is the best starting point for kids with dyslexia. Your child must know all letter sounds, including long and short vowel sounds to use the Double Letter Jab and any other levels of the Bravo! Reading System.
The Double Letter Jab introduces nonsense words so your child keeps bad reading and decoding habits at bay from the start. Bad reading habits, like guessing at words or memorizing them instead of sounding them out, happen when your child is pushed to quickly into decoding words that are too difficult. It also happens when not enough time is spent on foundational skills like decoding two-letter words.
As in all levels of Bravo! Reading, your child will take a Bravo! Checkup at the end of the level to make sure decoding skills are strong before moving to the next level. If your child doesn’t pass the checkup, that’s okay. It just means more practice is necessary.
If your child needs to learn letter sounds quickly and easily, check out the Bravo! Beginner!
The Triple Letter Crunch!
The second level of Bravo! Reading shows your child how to blend three letters together to form a word.
This is the next natural step after mastering two-letter words. Learning to decode three-letter words is one of the most important decoding skills your child can learn!
Once again, large motor movements are used to drive in how to quickly and easily decode or sound out three-letter words. Your child will use a dot dabber or bingo marker to pound out each letter sound while at the same time saying the sound of the letter out loud.
Your child becomes familiar with the Bravo! Bullseye, which is a colorful marker “target” your child pounds to get large motor movement involved while saying the sound of the letter out loud at the same time. When finished with the three letters and their sounds, your child slides the dot dabber across the Bravo! Bolt while blending all three sounds together to make a word.
Your child is reading and decoding now!
The format for the words in the Triple Letter Crunch is in the traditional consonant-vowel-consonant layout. Examples of these words would be “cat”, “fin”, “bat”, “hem”, “rid”, “bed”, “dug”, and “mop”.
Your child will also use nonsense words to practice these sounds. Since kids with dyslexia are meaning-driven, they will often guess at words because the meaning of the word is so enticing. Nonsense words eliminate this problem as well as guessing at words because there is no meaning to guess at in the first place. It gets straight down to decoding.
Pure and simple.
With movement. Lots of movement.
The Consonant Blend Smash!
Level 3 of the Bravo! Reading System introduces consonant blends to your child. This can be a difficult skill for kids with dyslexia! They have such a hard time understanding that two letters can come together to form one new and unique sound.
The Consonant Blend Smash is chock full of fun, brain-based learning. Your child uses cross-lateral movements to learn consonant blends. This is easy for kids with dyslexia to understand and internalize.
Brain-based learning uses movement (among other things) to help your child learn and explore. It’s also important to cross the vertical midline of the body for remapping to occur. Learning is easier when it’s brain-based because it makes sense to the dyslexic child.
Level 3 of Bravo! Reading focuses on letter knowledge because of the difficulty of this skill. Once your child passes the Bravo! Checkup, it’s straight toward using consonant blends in words!
The Consonant Blend Blast!
Level 4 of the Bravo! Reading System picks up where Level 3 left off, showing your child how to use consonant blends in words. Once again, your child will use dot dabbers to pound in sounds.
Kids love doing this, and by now, your child has a rhythm with the program. Those dot dabbers fly as your child confidently calls off sounds at the same time. This joining together of auditory, visual, and physical is a triple whammy of learning. And of course, it’s large motor movement, so that makes all the difference in the world to your child’s decoding success.
Your child will get practice yet again with nonsense words in the Consonant Blend Blast! This is very helpful in helping your child break bad reading habits like guessing at words or memorizing words.
Examples of words learned in Level 4 are “brat”, “plot”, “slug”, “chin”, and “shed”. Adding the fourth letter can be challenging to kids with dyslexia, as they usually retain two to three letters in visual memory, and four-letter words contain an added symbol.
With the Bravo! Way, your child soon internalizes the four letters and can decode consonant blends without a hitch.
The Silent E Slide!
Decoding words with silent “e” at the end can be really frustrating for kids with dyslexia. It’s as though these kids can’t see the “e” at the end of the word… and if they ignore it, then maybe it will just go away!
There are rules that need to be followed for decoding words with the silent “e”. Unfortunately, kids with dyslexia have a hard time learning and applying these rules.
But with the Silent E Slide and the Silent E Shuffle, your child will be sounding out words with the silent “e” in no time! Following arrow paths with the dot dabber, your child uses movement to sound out the tricky words.
Kids also use the Silent E Shuffle in Level 5 of the Bravo! Reading System. This is a very important activity for kids with dyslexia. After practicing the Silent E Slide with both regular words and nonsense words, your child is introduced to the Silent E Shuffle.
In this fun exercise, your child is shown a word with the silent “e”, such as the word “cane”. Your child runs through the arrow path with the dot dabber just like before. Only now there’s another word below it – for comparison’s sake. For the word “cane”, the second word would be “can”. It’s the same word minus the silent “e”.
By seeing real words that do and don’t have the silent “e” side by side, kids with dyslexia are able to “see” the silent “e” in words and know which words to apply the rule to and which words not to.
Kids usually like doing the Silent E Slide best of all!
The Word Ending Smack!
Level 6 of the Bravo! Reading System helps your child master word endings. These are double letters that fall at the end of words. By now, your child is familiar with two letters coming together to make a new and unique sound.
But it gets tricky when your child finds these two letters at the end of a word. By the time a child with dyslexia gets to the end of any word, mistakes are often made. Add in two letters that make one sound, and it can get confusing. On top of it all, kids with dyslexia often fatigue by the time they get to the end of a word.
This is when mistakes are classically made. Your child, out of desperation, will call off any letter or sound just to be done with the word.
But with the Word Ending Smack, your child uses motion to set in those tricky consonant blends that fall at the end of words. Examples of words your child decodes in the Word Ending Smack are “mill”, “pack”, “weld”, “must”, and “honk”.
By now, your child is becoming a decoding expert!
The Double Vowel Punch!
One of the most difficult decoding skills for kids with dyslexia to master is the double vowel combination. Kids with dyslexia usually struggle with vowels in general, so when two of them come together to form a new and unique sound, it can get extremely confusing.
Vowels can sound very similar to each other, and it’s sometimes difficult for kids with dyslexia to pick up on their subtle differences. But when your child pounds the vowel blend with a dot dabber while saying the vowel combination out loud, brain-based learning kicks in! Vowel blends are mastered with ease!
Level 7 of the Bravo! Reading System is full of large motor, cross-lateral movements that set in these tricky vowel blends. Your child won’t have to fear seeing two vowels together in a word ever again! Instead, the word with the vowel pair is sounded out quickly and easily.
The next level of Bravo! prepares your child for using vowel pairs in words. This gives your child a leg up for real world reading where vowel pairs lurk around every corner. Isn’t it great that your child no longer has to fear these worrisome combinations?
The Double Vowel Bash!
Now that your child has a strong knowledge base of vowel pairs, it’s time to use them in words. This isn’t such a huge stretch since there was so much practice in Level 7.
Still, it’s important that your child is able to automatically use these vowel combinations in words. As before, your child pounds out letter sounds with a dot dabber to drive in retention. A Bravo! Bracket is used beneath the vowel pairs so your child can see the vowel combination while saying the sound of it – all within a word, of course.
As with previous levels, your child will also use nonsense words to prevent bad habits from forming. This prevents guessing at words and memorizing words. Since vowel pairs can be especially tricky for kids with dyslexia, there’s a picture cue at the top of each page to help your child internalize the sound of each vowel combination.
Examples of words with vowel pairs in Level 8 of the Bravo! Reading System are “leaf”, “feet”, “haul”, “rain”, “head”, “book”, and “boot”. As you can see, some vowel pairs are spelled the same but have different sounds. This can be especially troublesome to learn by traditional methods, but with the Bravo! Way, your child quickly learns to decode vowel pairs.
Once your child takes the Level 8 Bravo! Checkup and passes it, then it’s time to move on to one of the hardest decoding skills of all – but also one of the most important ones.
The Variant Strike!
Level 9 of the Bravo! Reading System helps your child master variants. Variants are words that don’t follow traditional reading and spelling rules. These words are the exceptions to rules, and they can sure trip up kids with dyslexia.
That’s because it’s hard enough for kids with dyslexia to learn a reading or spelling rule in the first place. They don’t automatically pick up on these rules and internalize them like other kids do. So when they come across a word that’s an exception to a rule they really don’t understand in the first place…well…you can see how much room for error there is!
Variants can be learned with the right methods. With large motor movements, pictures, color, brain-based learning, and a multi-sensory approach, they can be mastered without heartache, tears, or fights.
By this level, Bravo! Reading’s predictability isn’t as…predictable…as before. That’s because variants aren’t very predictable in the first place. But at this stage of the game, it’s good news! Your child is getting ready to decode multi-syllable words soon, so this is the perfect jumping off point.
Since the rules have become a bit odd with variants, your child might pound a letter at the beginning of the word, add in a blend, and pound another letter at the end, depending on what the word is. Or the word might have two blends where your child only pounds two times in the entire word.
Even so, kids with dyslexia do quite well with variants when taught the Bravo! Way. This little loss of predictability is the perfect segue into multi-syllable words, which are coming right up!
The Two-Syllable Word Jam!
Your child is now ready to decode two-syllable words with confidence and flair! There’s no fear anymore when it comes to two-syllable words, as reading and decoding confidence has set in. Level 10 of the Bravo! Reading System introduces two-syllable words.
Once again, movement is king for decoding. Your child still uses a dot dabber to pound out sounds, but this time it happens on syllables as opposed to isolated sounds that need to be blended together.
Print is a bit smaller in the Two Syllable Jam! to prepare your child for real world reading. In addition, the two-syllable words are split into two distinct pieces, each one requiring movement and pounding to be read correctly.
Level 10 of the Bravo! Reading System also uses two-syllable nonsense words to help your child keep from forming bad decoding habits. Most traditional or dyslexia-geared reading programs do not use multi-syllable nonsense words.
Typically, in these programs, the use of nonsense words is stopped after three-letter words. This is a huge disservice to kids with dyslexia who need this process to not only keep them from forming bad habits but to give them practice with meaningless words with no pressure to perform.
In addition, the Two Syllable Jam introduces prefixes and suffixes to your child, a crucially important skill for reading. When a prefix or suffix is pounded with a dot dabber, it’s suddenly a fun, meaningful learning activity!
The Three-Syllable Word Slam!
The final level of the Bravo! Reading System shows your child how to decode three-syllable words with ease. This is a skill that usually eludes kids with dyslexia.
Kids with dyslexia usually panic when they try to decode a multi-syllable word. But since finishing Level 10 and passing the Bravo! Checkup, your child comes to the table with the skill of sounding out two-syllable words, so it’s not so overwhelming.
In the Three-Syllable Word Slam!, your child also gets another dose of nonsense words to break bad reading and decoding habits before they even start. Once again, this is unheard of in traditional reading programs, but so necessary for kids with dyslexia.
Your child will still decode three-syllable words with a dot dabber, but the print is even smaller than in Level 10. This, of course, helps your child succeed in real world reading.
Words are separated into three distinct pieces that are dabbed or pounded with gusto. Then, your child slides the syllables together across the Bravo! Bolt to blend them together.
This is the system that works…the system that just turned your child into a Bravo! Reading Shark!
Is the Bravo! Reading System Right for Your Child?
Does your child?
- stammer and stutter when reading out loud?
- guess, memorize, or take wild stabs at words while reading?
- use a finger to touch print while reading, either silently or out loud?
- frequently lose place while reading and have to reroute?
- display selective interest in reading material?
- transpose letters and words while reading?
- avoid reading, often coming up with excuses when it’s time to read?
- reverse letters and words while reading and/or writing?
- skip or reread lines of print?
- have a high vocabulary but struggle to sound out words?
- make up words while reading out loud?
- display a lack of confidence while reading?
- read small words incorrectly or add in small sight words where they don’t belong when reading?
- fail to apply written language rules to oral reading (pausing at commas and periods, etc.)?
- second guess words while reading out loud – pausing when not sure what words are?
- fidget, squirm, or wriggle while reading?
- lack the understanding of logical story flow?
- read in a monotone or fail to show proper expression?
If you answered “yes” to three or more of these questions, your child has indications of dyslexia and needs a different approach to reading. Traditional methods won’t work for your child. The Bravo! Reading System gives your child the tools for reading success!
Your Child’s Key to Lasting Reading Success
If your child has dyslexia or you suspect dyslexia is preventing your child from succeeding academically, please understand it’s never too late. And always know the sooner a proper intervention is made, the sooner your child makes progress.
From there, grades soar. Tests are passed with ease and confidence. Homework battles cease, because reading carries over to all subjects.
When your child learns letter sounds by pounding in a special way with dot dabbers, light bulbs turn on. This is learning that makes sense to your child. It’s learning that works!
Words are learned the same way, pounding and dabbing. With large motor movement – the hand, the arm, and the shoulder sending messages to the brain.
You see, kids with dyslexia don’t learn the same as other kids. It doesn’t mean something is wrong with your child. It just means a different approach is needed.
Because, reading shouldn’t be a painful process. It should be easy and fun. It should lead to magical worlds and excellent grades.
Bravo! Reading caters to the dyslexic reader...to the student who has weak decoding skills. Bravo! nurtures the child with dyslexia who sinks down into a chair when it’s time to read out loud. Bravo! helps the young learner who can’t seem to learn letter sounds and feels dumb because of it. Even high schoolers come to Bravo! for a safe place to learn to decode and sound out words.
At Bravo!, we know and understand that nothing is wrong with your child – only the reading programs they’ve been forced to endure!
The Bravo! Money Back Guarantee!
Bravo! Reading knows what it’s like to have a child with dyslexia. After all, Lisa Harp, the founder of Bravo! Reading originally developed this reading program to help her own son who had dyslexia. Within a year, he was an honor student!
Lisa brings this same methods to you so you can help your child. Whether you work with your child, hire a tutor to do so, or have a family member help out, we know the cost of not doing anything.When your child struggles to read, the world is bleak. When reading skills fall into place, a magical world opens up.
We also know the cost of panic decisions, and we know that Bravo! is a confidence decision.
Reading is a serious subject, but Bravo! makes it fun for your child.
Bravo! Knows…
Bravo! Reading knows what it’s like to have tears instead of sunshine, fits instead of smiles. Books thrown aside and Kindles ignored. Bravo! knows what it’s like to have a child avoid reading at all costs, and we’ve gone the extra mile to fix that problem for you and your child.
Because of this, Bravo! offers a 100% money back guarantee.
If you aren’t happy with the Bravo! Reading System, just let us know and we’ll happily refund your money, no questions asked.
Still Have Questions?
What ages does Bravo! Reading work for?
Bravo! works for kindergarten through adult. Although it is geared more for children, naturally appealing to their sense of joy and fun, (cute pictures of sharks, colorful pictures and cues, etc.), it can be used for any age group. Teens have made tremendous progress with the Bravo! Reading System.
If a child of any age needs to quickly learn letter sounds, including long and short vowel sounds, the Bravo! Beginner is the best starting place.
I’m not sure which product to order.
For value alone, the Complete Bravo! Reading System includes the Bravo! Reading System along with the Bravo! Beginner and all Bravo! Reading Expansion Packs for only $399.99, which is cheaper than the Bravo! Reading System by itself, which is $459.99.
This way, you’ll have all Bravo! materials and if you find you don’t need some of them, then simply don’t use them. By having all products, you don’t have to come back and order more materials…and it’s the best value!
With that said, here’s a quick explanation of each product we offer.
The Complete Bravo! Reading System gives you all Bravo! Reading products for a cheaper price than buying each product individually.
The Bravo! Beginner shows your child how to learn letter sounds, including long and short vowel sounds, in short order.
The Bravo! Booster Pack is an expansion pack that picks up where the Bravo! Reading System left off, expanding on phonemic awareness and breaking bad decoding habits. It is the most thorough phonemic awareness system availabe.
The Bravo! Super Booster Pack focuses more on decoding words. Print graduates from large to small and intense use of nonsense words is used, even multi-syllable words. This breaks bad reading habits and replaces them with good ones.
The Bravo! Decoder Pack is our most challenging expansion pack. It uses three modes of learning – decoding units, nonsense words, and fun stories – to drive in difficult decoding skills.
The Race from Reversals Pack shows your child how to form letters and numbers without reversing them in both reading and writing.
The “Seeing” for Reading Pack is chock full of visual processing activities that improve reading skills.
Does my child need to have dyslexia in order to use Bravo! Reading?
Your child doesn’t have to have dyslexia to reap the benefits of any of the Bravo! Reading products. Many people use the Bravo! Beginner for young learners before they can even display symptoms of a reading problem. It’s a sense of preventative medicine!
Whether your child is just a bit behind in reading or has been diagnosed with dyslexia, Bravo! Reading will build a strong decoding foundation which carries over to strong reading and fluency skills.
Are the Bravo! Reading products interactive?
No. Bravo!’s amazing success rate for helping kids with dyslexia overcome reading challenges is primarily due to large motor movements. Most kids with dyslexia are tactile, right-brain dominant learners, so they need large motor movement to learn. This is very difficult to do with an interactive program, as it’s difficult to get the arm, the shoulder, and the hand involved in learning with this mode.
However, since you receive all Bravo! products as digital files, you can use them in a computer or a tablet. We recommend using the Print Method to use with dot dabbers to gain the most learning possible. As an added bonus…kids love using dot dabbers to read, and it keeps them engaged for longer periods of time.
My son hates to read and has tantrums whenever we try to get him to read. How will I get him to do even more reading on top of tons of homework after school?
It’s easy to compare Bravo! Reading products with traditional reading programs that probably drive your child to distraction. But Bravo! gives your child a fun way to learn decoding skills through gross motor movements, brain-based learning, color, pictures, predictability, and a multisensory approach to learning.
All our decoding programs are Orton-Gillingham based…only we’ve taken the basics of this approach and added so much more! More nonsense words. More movement. Bigger movements. More color and pictures. More fun! And we put “multisensory” on steroids! This is what connects with your child.
We do not use traditional phonics sheets, flashcards, or “drill and kill” methods of teaching reading. These simply don’t work for a child with dyslexia.
How much time will I have to put into this?
Bravo! Reading products are different than anything you might have previously purchased. Because these products speak intrinsically to a child with dyslexia, you don’t have to spend as much time using the materials in order to get amazing, fast results.
Most people get results with Bravo! with as little as fifteen minutes a day, five days a week. And even better, there are no flash cards and teacher’s manuals, no tiles to keep track of…no difficult vocabulary words to memorize.
The true key to success with any Bravo! Reading product, though, is consistency. Even if you only use the materials you purchased for fifteen minutes one time a week, you’ll start to see results.
The brain likes to work and it then likes to rest, so we don’t recommend “marathon”, intensive training sessions with Bravo! materials. This also keeps it fresh and fun for your child!
Are the Bravo! Reading materials physical products?
No. All Bravo! Reading System programs and materials are digital files that you receive immediately. From there, you can choose to print out the materials or plug them into a computer or tablet for use. For best results, we recommend using the Print Method along with a bingo marker or dot dabber to ensure the most large motor movement. This is the reading “cheat sheet” your child needs to succeed!
I’ve bought reading programs before, and they are not only expensive, but confusing. I had teacher’s manuals, boxes of flashcards, and tiles to figure out how to maneuver before I could even work with my child. It was all so confusing. Is this just another one of those products?
One of the most exciting things about Bravo! Reading is its simplicity. Bravo! is Orton-Gillingham based with a huge dose of fun thrown it, because that’s what works for kids with dyslexia. There are no flashcards, tiles, or teacher’s manuals with Bravo! Reading products.
If you can read and follow a three-step recipe, you can figure out how to use Bravo! products. Each different product comes with two types of directions – a traditional step-by-step quick guide as well as a picture card that shows you with pictures what to do.
Even better, there are only a few easy movements to learn with Bravo! Reading products. Once you show your child what to do, the actions and movements carry over to the next level. Also, these movements are intuitive to a child with dyslexia, so it doesn’t take much to get your child going.
Do I have to buy any materials to use Bravo! Reading products?
Yes. But it will only cost you a few dollars! At bare minimum, you’ll need to purchase two dot dabbers or bingo markers. These are the tools your child will happily use to read the Bravo! Way! These can be purchased at Amazon, Walmart, Target, or any other similar department store.
If using the Print Method (recommended) you will have printing costs. It is also recommended that you use a binder and clear plastic report covers, but these items are optional. They can also be purchased from the places mentioned above.
If using the Tablet Method or Screen Method, you will need to purchase two capacative stylus pens. These can be purchased at the same places as recommended above for a few dollars as well.
Are the Bravo! Reading materials multisensory?
Yes, all Bravo! Reading materials are multisensory…only on steroids. Typical multisensory programs have your child write letters in sand, form letters out of clay, or move a tile while saying a sound. These are great methods, but the child with dyslexia needs more movement in order to get results. And it can’t be just any movement. It needs to be large motor movement to make a difference, for real learning to set in.
But Bravo! takes it a step further. We add brain-based learning, color cues, pictures, and predictability to help your child master phonemic awareness and decoding skills. This, in turn, equates to better reading comprehension and fluency.
I’ve heard that an Orton-Gillingham approach helps kids with dyslexia read. My son has dyslexia, but all the Orton-Gillingham programs I’ve looked at seem so boring. Bravo! Reading looks different, but I want to make sure my son is engaged while he gets reading help.
Bravo! Reading is an Orton-Gillingham based reading system that helps kids with dyslexia learn to decode words instead of guess at them. But Bravo! offers so much more than traditional Orton-Gillingham-based programs.
For starters, all Bravo! materials engage your child in more movement exercises than traditional Orton-Gillingham programs. And not just more but better. Bravo! has your child use large motor movements, which is how a child with dyslexia learns.
In addition, Bravo! Reading doesn’t just stop at providing simple phonemic awareness skills. We slowly work your child up to multi-syllable words. We also make sure your child has a strong sense of variants, which are those pesky words that don’t follow traditional spelling and reading rules.
Bravo! Reading offers the most thorough use of word building and phonemic awareness available through the three decoding expansion packs, the Bravo! Booster, the Bravo! Super Booster, and the Bravo! Decoder Pack.
In addition, some traditional Orton-Gillingham programs have kids with dyslexia memorize difficult reading and spelling rules. This is a difficult process for kids with dyslexia. Bravo! prefers using brain-based learning to set in these difficult skills instead of forcing rote memorization with small movements.
Kids with dyslexia are usually weak in visual and auditory memory skills, so asking them to memorize material is not part of the Bravo! Way!
Do you offer payment plans?
Yes, for our larger products, the Complete Bravo! Reading System and the Bravo! Reading System, we offer payment plans. If you purchase any of our individual materials, they are affordable, so we don’t offer payment plans for them.
My daughter is autistic and nonverbal. Does Bravo! Reading work for severely disabled children?
The Harp Learning Institute learning centers had many nonverbal, autistic students who not only learned letter sounds with the Bravo! Beginner but also learned to read and decode along with the the Bravo! Reading System.
With that said, we cannot make guarantees that the Bravo! Reading System or the Bravo! Beginner will work for all nonverbal autistic children. The Bravo! Reading materials are all designed by Dyslexia Expert, Lisa Harp, and are built for children with dyslexia.
With that said, it’s painfully obvious how few materials are available for kids on the spectrum. So, the choice will be yours if you’d like to try any Bravo! Reading products with a child who has autism.
How long will it take until my child is reading at grade level?
Each reader is unique, so we can’t tell you how long it takes to reach grade level success. We don’t know where your child is starting from and what skills are and aren’t in place. For instance, if your child needs to learn all letter sounds, it will probably take longer to reach grade level reading status than if there’s an existing letter/sound foundation.
However, you will usually start seeing results in as little as six weeks. Part of the quick turn-around time you’ll see with Bravo! is due to its ability to break bad reading and decoding habits like guessing at words or memorizing them.
Once these bad habits have been corrected and replaced with better decoding skills, progress is made quickly.
It also depends on how much time you spend with the materials as well as consistency. It’s much more effective to be consistent instead of working in spurts for long marathon sessions.
Get the Entire Set of Tools to Turn Your Child into a Reading Shark!
Get the Complete Bravo! Reading System and you’ll receive all eleven levels of the Bravo! Reading System, the Bravo! Beginner, and all of the Bravo! Reading Expansion Packs for just $399.99!
The expansion packs you’ll receive are the Bravo! Booster Pack, the Bravo! Super Booster Pack, the Bravo! Decoder Pack, the Race from Reversals Pack, and the “Seeing” for Reading Pack.
The Eleven Levels of the Bravo! Reading System
The Bravo! Beginner and the Bravo! Expansion Packs
Value: $1969.83
Your Price: $399.99
