Complete Bravo! Reading System
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The Bravo! Reading System
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Following is a quick description of each level:
Kids love Level 1 of the Bravo! Reading System! It is the most important level of Bravo! because it teaches your child how to sound out two-letter words. This is the foundation of decoding, and it’s crucially important to make this foundation strong.
Traditional reading programs either don’t spend enough time working on two-letter words or skip it completely. This is a huge disservice to the dyslexic child, who needs more time spent on sounding out two-letter words before moving on to three-letter words. Your child uses real and nonsense words in Level 1 to decode two-letter words. This is what builds a true decoding foundation.
Examples of nonsense and real words your child uses in Level 1 are “ib”, “in”, “af”, “eg”, “uv”, “op”, “ik”, “ad”, “eb”, “ox”, and “ul”.
Once that’s done, simply have your child take the Level 1 Bravo! Checkup to see if it’s time to move to Level 2. If your child doesn’t pass this quick and easy evaluation, it’s okay. Just work on the activities for a while longer until the checkup can be passed.
The next level of Bravo! Reading shows your child how to decode three-letter words like a champ! A strong decoding foundation is being built as your child easily sounds out three-letter words in the consonant-vowel-consonant lineup.
Because your child mastered decoding two-letter words in Level 1, this is an easy jump. Your child will also decode three-letter nonsense words to prevent bad decoding habits from occurring. Phonemic awareness is stretched at this level by adding a single letter sound to the original forty-four phonemes.
Large motor movements drive in this crucial skill while your child has fun using dot dabbers to pound out letter sounds!
Examples of words your child decodes in Level 2 are “cat”, “fin”, “pen”, “top”, and “hut”.
Level 3 of the Bravo! Reading System introduces your child to consonant blends. This is where two consonants come together to form a new and unique sound. Examples of consonant blends your child learns to decode in Level 3 are “br”, “sh”, “tw”, “ch”, “dr”, “cl”, and “fr”. Of course, there are many more!
Consonant blends are typically tricky for children with dyslexia. These kids have a difficult time understanding that two letters can come together to form only one sound. They want to give each letter its own specific sound and not unite them for a new and unique sound.
With the Bravo! Way, which is brain-based learning at its finest, your child uses cross-lateral motion and our exclusive blending/movement process to learn consonant blends without fight or fuss.
Your child is building a strong decoding foundation by now! Level 4 picks up where Level 3 left off with consonant blends. But in Level 4, your child practices using consonant blends in real and nonsense words.
Examples of words your child sounds out in Level 4 are “chap”, “flap”, “stub”, “grit”, “shop”, “drug”, and “brag”.
Your child pounds the Bravo! Bolt beneath each consonant blend, automatically knowing those two letters form a new, unique sound. When the level is complete, simply have your child take the end of level Bravo! Checkup to see if it’s time to move on to Level 5 of the Bravo! Reading System.
The rubber’s meeting the road now as your child builds a stronger decoding foundation! Sounding out words instead of guessing at them is the norm now. Hesitations diminish. Stammering and stuttering go by the wayside.
Even better…Level 5 is often kids’ favorite level to work on because of the Silent E Slide and the Silent E Shuffle!
Level 5 is where your child learns to decode words with long vowel sounds and a silent “e” at the end of the word. Kids with dyslexia have a difficult time “seeing” the silent “e” at the end of words, which in turn makes it difficult for them to apply the silent “e” rule.
It’s like that pesky letter “e” doesn’t exist for them!
The Silent E Slide and the Silent E Shuffle show your child how to “see” the silent “e” with innovative arrow paths, pounding of isolated letter sounds, and the end-game slide that leads them to that elusive silent “e”.
Level 6 of the Bravo! Reading System shows your child how to decode words with consonant blend endings. Once again, this can be quite tricky for kids with dyslexia. It’s that same problem of realizing two letters can form one new and unique sound. Add it to the end of a word, and it’s enough to drive your child to distraction.
Kids with dyslexia have a difficult time sounding out endings of words to start with, and a double-letter ending on a word can really trip them up. But the good news is that by now, your child has had loads of practice time in sounding out consonant letter blends.
Examples of words decoded in Level 6 are “tell”, “malt”, “fast”, “dump”, and “rant”.
Level 7 introduces vowel blends to your child. Vowel blends can be ultra tricky for kids with dyslexia. That’s because kids with dyslexia usually struggle with vowels in general. They have a difficult time distinguishing the subtle differences between vowel sounds. Add in combining two vowels together to make one new, unique sound, and it’s enough to set them off!
But the Bravo! Way makes sounding out vowel blends easy for your child. Kids use brain-based movements to drive in letter sound combinations. It’s fun, easy, and makes sense to the dyslexic learner.
By using these cross-lateral movements then a sliding motion to blend letters sounds – all in a large motor movement way – your child is able to understand and use vowel blends like never before.
Examples of vowel blends mastered in Level 7 are “ea”, “oa”, “ee”, “ai”, “ei”, and “oo”.
Level 8 of the Bravo! Reading System shows your child how to decode vowel blends within words. Once again, your child will practice vowel blends in both real words and nonsense words.
Using nonsense words, especially on such a difficult skill to master, keeps your child from developing bad reading and decoding habits. It also corrects poor reading and decoding habits that already exist.
Because of the difficulty of this skill, your child was introduced to vowel blends in Level 7. However, this level takes it to the next step, which prepares your child for real world reading.
Reading and decoding confidence is at an all time high now as your child easily sounds out words like “leaf”, “boat”, “feet”, “pair”, and “main”.
Your child has come a long way since learning to decode two-letter words! Now it’s time to learn how to decode variants. Variants are words that don’t follow traditional reading and spelling rules.
Variants are particularly difficult for kids with dyslexia to master. It’s hard enough for them to learn about words that do follow rules. Add in these exceptions to rules, and it’s enough to drive these kids over the edge!
But when your child masters variants the Bravo! Way with large motor movements and brain-based learning, those variants aren’t so scary anymore.
Examples of some of the variants your child learns in Level 9 are “pray”, “fern”, “dirt”, “claw”, “cork”, “malt”, “sage”, and “sigh”.
Now your child is ready to decode two-syllable words! Typically, this is a very tedious, difficult skill for kids with dyslexia. But when your child pounds syllables instead of letters with dot dabbers, sounding out multi-syllable words isn’t hard after all.
Your child will also decode two-syllable nonsense words, something practically heard of in traditional and typical dyslexia reading programs. This gives your child a chance to truly decode. Because there is no meaning to a nonsense word, your child won’t be guessing at the word. Memorizing the word isn’t lucrative because there’s no meaning attached to it.
Kids with dyslexia are usually meaning-driven. They crave meaning to carry them through a sometimes topsy-turvey world.
Using nonsense words not only fixes bad decoding habits but prevents kids from starting poor reading habits in the first place. The process of using nonsense words for multi-syllables is perfect for kids with dyslexia, who usually resort to guessing at multi-syllable words right off the bat!
In Level 10, each syllable is separated. Your child pounds the syllables with a dot dabber to use large motor movements to set in skills. From there, your child slides the dot dabber across the Bravo! Bolt, sounding out the entire word. This prepares your child for reading multi-syllable words in the real world.
Some examples of two-syllable words your child decodes in Level 10 are “finish”, “upset”, “velvet”, “rapid”, “habit”, and “logic”.
Your child is almost a Bravo! Reading Shark now! It’s time to decode three-syllable words, and once your child master’s that, then reading is a breeze.
Level 11 is set up just like Level 10 of the Bravo! Reading System, except your child decodes three-syllable words instead of two-syllable words. This is a natural jump, as your child will have passed the Level 10 Bravo! Checkup before moving on to Level 11.
Once again, your child will also decode three-syllable nonsense words in this level. This is the icing on the cake for you child, making sure bad decoding habits are eradicated.
Examples of words your child decodes in Level 11 are “examine”, “multiply”, “indicate”, “important”, “quality”, and “remember”.
Your child still pounds each syllable with a dot dabber to learn how to decode three-syllable words. After your child passes the Level 11 Bravo! Checkup, your child truly is a Bravo! Reading Shark!
Total Value: $1059.90
The Bravo! Beginner is the starting point of all decoding. This is where your child learns all letter sounds, including long and short vowel sounds.
All too often, kids with dyslexia only learn part of the twenty-six letter sounds. Vowels are particularly tricky to learn.
Somehow, even with an incomplete knowledge of letter sounds, these kids manage to”get by”. They can do perfunctory reading assignments…until asked to decode larger words. Then they fall apart.
It’s important that your child learns letter sounds from the start. But if your child is struggling to learn letter sounds, it’s because this skills wasn’t taught in a way your child can understand. With brain-based learning and large motor movements that cross the vertical midline of the body, your child learns letter sounds quickly and easily. No flashcards. No phonics sheets. No “drill and kill” worksheets.
Just a way of learning letter sounds that makes sense to your child!
Using the Bravo! Beginner is the fastest and most effective way for your child to learn letter sounds. This is the first step of building a decoding foundation that will help your child gain reading fluency and comprehension skills.
The Bravo! Reading Booster Pack is first in the lineup of expansion packs that refine your child’s hard-earned decoding skills. The Bravo! Booster Pack starts with basic phonemes (decoding units) and slowly builds on them. It has the most thorough assortment of phonemic units available.
Your child uses motor movements to slide a fat-tipped marker across pictures, decoding units, real words, and nonsense words. Words start with basic phonemes and build up to complicated variants, something your child most likely needs to work on.
The Booster Pack is for older children, reading at least a second grade level, who know all letter sounds and can blend three sounds together.
The Bravo! Super Booster Pack is next in line for Bravo! Reading’s expansion packs. The Super Booster Pack is a bit different from the Booster Pack, as it focuses more on gradually making print smaller so your child can first gain reading confidence with large print then transition to smaller print. This makes real world reading much easier.
There is a phoneme or decoding unit per page that your child focuses on. Words gradually get more difficult along with smaller print to prepare your child for real world reading.
Two pages share the same decoding or phonemic unit. One page is full of real words and one page focuses on nonsense words. There are over 160 pages of decoding practice in this decoding program that’s been used in the Harp Learning Institute learning centers for over twenty years with an admirable success rate!
The Bravo! Reading Decoder Pack is the most challenging expansion pack we have available. It is set up into three distinct areas to help your child decode more difficult words.
The first thing your child does in the Bravo! Decoder Pack is work on a specified decoding unit or phoneme. The entire page will focus on that unit of sound. Your child uses large motor movement yet again to learn how to decode these more difficult words.
Here’s the great part, though. Words get progressively more difficult, so if your child is struggling with more difficult words, it’s okay. You can have your child focus on the easier words until skills are built up.
From there, your child practices this same decoding unit only with nonsense words. Nonsense words help your child break bad reading and decoding habits as well as prevent them from occurring in the first place. Once again, we start with easy nonsense words and gradually make them more and more difficult.
Finally, your child reads a fun, silly story ripe with words that contain the decoding unit the page focuses on. This prepares your child for real world reading while at the same time makes reading entertaining and fun!
If your child struggles with reversing letters and numbers in either reading or writing, the Bravo! Race from Reversals Pack is the best option to fix this pesky problem.
The Race from Reversals Pack helps kids with dyslexia overcome reversals issues. By using extremely large motor movements, your child is able to learn which way letters or numbers face. Traditional reversals practice sheets use small letters and numbers, which doesn’t help your child as much as large motor movements do.
Remember that kids with dyslexia need to move to learn. And not just any movement will do. They need large motor movements to really set in a skill.
That’s why the Race from Reversals Pack uses an entire page for one letter or number! On top of that, your child has many different visual and auditory cues while using a dot dabber to trace around the letter or number path while learning the directions of those letters and numbers.
Arrows, a “saying cloud”, stop lights, numbers, traffic signs, and colorful buttons keep your child going in the right direction.
Although designed to help your child overcome reversals, the Race from Reversals Pack also helps with handwriting and dysgraphia issues.
The Bravo! “Seeing” for Reading Pack is chock full of visual processing activities that help your child read better. If your child skips lines while reading, stammers or stutters while reading out loud, reads words incorrectly, reverses words or letters, or has poor fluency and comprehension, the “Seeing” for Reading Pack will help.
Kids with dyslexia have a difficult time processing visual and auditory information. This is because it gets skewed or distorted from the time it’s taken in to the time it’s processed. The “Seeing” for Reading Pack will help your child strengthen these visual skills with fun, easy to do activities.
Visual discrimination, visual memory, visual spatial memory, visual closure, visual motor integration, visual synthesis, visual figure ground, and visual tracking are the main skills your child works on in the “Seeing” for Reading Pack.
These skills help your child process visual information correctly so it’s no longer skewed or distorted. There are over 250 page of visual processing fun in the “Seeing” for Reading Pack!
Total Value: $909.93
But if you order the Complete Bravo! Reading System, you will only have to pay $399.99!
And even better, you’ll receive all the Bravo! Reading materials right away as digital files so you can get going right away!
Even better, you save over three hundred dollars by purchasing the Complete Bravo! Reading System.
Here’s how the Complete System will help your child:
- learn letter sounds – including long and short vowel sounds – quicker than any other method
- decode two- three-letter words to start building a decoding foundation
- sound out consonant blends and vowel blends
- discover that variants – words that don’t follow normal reading and spelling rules – can be learned without fear or guessing at them
- find out how to decode multi-syllable words quickly and effortlessly
- learn how to decode endings of words
- internalize how to use prefixes and suffixes while reading multi-syllable words
- stop skipping lines while reading
- stop guessing at words while reading
- stop memorizing words instead of sounding them out while reading
- teach your child how to strengthen visual processing skills to make reading an easier process
- naturally raise reading fluency and comprehension scores
- raise reading lexile scores
- demolish homework hassles and fights
- show your child how to correctly form letters and numbers so that reversals won’t be a problem in reading and writing
- measure where reading and writing reversals lie
- learn how to decode longer, more difficult multi-syllable words
- gain reading confidence
