Free Resources
Bravo! Reading offers several free resources to help your child succeed in reading!
The Bravo! Reading Punch Pack
Most traditional reading programs introduce decoding with three-letter words. This works for the majority of kids, but it’s lethal for a child with dyslexia. They need to be eased into a process that feels like a foreign language to them!
Kids with dyslexia struggle to process visual and auditory information. Because of this, their visual and auditory memory skills are usually weak. This means that kids with dyslexia can only retain only two to three shapes in visual memory. It also means that decoding a two- to three-letter word is the extent that their visual memory skills will allow!
Kids with Dyslexia Can Become Reading Sharks with the Right Set of Tools
But Bravo! Reading knows better. Bravo! knows that kids with dyslexia can succeed if given the right set of tools from the get-go. Kids with dyslexia struggle to decode. But if given two-letter words along with a multisensory, brain-based, movement-based program, they can start succeeding at decoding right from the start.
The Bravo! Punch Pack is a FREE snapshot of Bravo! Reading’s larger and more thorough Level 1 from the Bravo! Reading System. The Bravo! Punch Pack helps your child decode two-letter words before asking your child to decode three-letter words.
This is only common sense, especially for kids with dyslexia!
A Sample Page from the Bravo! Punch Pack
The Bravo! Reading Snap Pack
The Bravo! Snap Pack is a FREE resource from Bravo! Reading that helps your child learn to decode three letter words. Like the Bravo! Punch Pack, the Snap Pack is a shorter snapshot of the longer Level 2 of the Bravo! Reading System. It’s a great way to get started with basic decoding skills for kids with dyslexia right away!
The Bravo! Snap Pack helps your child decode three-letter words with ease! With gross motor movements, your child will “feel” how to blend three letters together to form a word. These words are in the traditional consonant-vowel-consonant pattern.
What isn’t traditional is how your child learns to decode three-letter words. Kids with dyslexia learn differently than other kids. That’s why they need a decoding system that meets their needs – that speaks to them through their “learning language”.
The Bravo! Snap Pack uses color, large motor movements, picture cues, auditory cues, a multi-sensory approach, brain-based learning, and predictability to give your child a fun, quick way to decode three-letter words.
Your child uses a dot dabber or bingo marker to “pound” in letter sounds and then blend them together.
It works in a snap!
A Sample Page from the Bravo! Snap Pack
The Bravo! Reading Mini-Decoder Pack
The Bravo! Reading Mini-Decoder Pack is a FREE resource that is aimed at refining existing decoding skills. This supplemental digital workbook is perfect for older kids – third grade or higher – who know all letter sounds (including long and short vowels) and can blend three letters together.
Like the Bravo! Punch Pack and Snap Pack, the Bravo! Mini-Decoder Pack is a smaller snapshot of a larger program, The Bravo! Decoder Pack.
The Mini-Decoder Pack and the Decoder Pack are Bravo! Reading’s most complex and challenging decoding programs. It is recommended that your child uses the Bravo! Punch Pack and Snap Pack before using the Bravo! Mini-Decoder Pack.
Three Ways to Drive in Decoding Skills that WORK for Kids with Dyslexia
The Mini-Decoder Pack focuses on three main areas to drive home decoding skills for the child with dyslexia. To start, a decoding unit or phonemic unit is assigned for each page. After that, nonsense words are practiced so bad reading and decoding habits can be eliminated. And finally, your child gets to read a fun story chock full of words related to the assigned decoding unit.
Once again, movement is king for helping your child learn and retain decoding steps that lead to greater fluency and comprehension skills.
A Sample Page from the Mini-Decoder Pack
The Bravo! Reading Reversals Evaluation
Have you ever wondered if your child has dyslexia? It’s often hard to get a diagnosis…and quite costly. If you’d like to find strong indications of dyslexia in your child or just want to check which letters and numbers your child is reversing while reading, then download the Bravo! Reading Reversals Evaluation.
Although this at home reversals evaluation can’t firmly diagnose your child with dyslexia or any other learning disability, it can show you strong indications of dyslexia as well as give you specific information about the letters and numbers your child is reversing while reading.
The Bravo! Reading Reversals Evaluation is an easy to perform test that only takes about fifteen minutes to administer, depending on your child’s abilities and age. It is for children aged five and up.
The Bravo! Writing Reversals Evaluation
If you’re curious about which letters or numbers your child reverses when writing, then download the FREE Bravo! Writing Reversals Evaluation.
The Bravo! Writing Reversals Evaluation will let you know which letters or numbers your child is reversing while writing, as compared to reading. There is a difference…yet reading and writing are closely intertwined! The Bravo! Writing Reversals Evaluation will let you compare your child’s written reversals as compared to other children the same age as well as reveal indications of dyslexia to you.
The Bravo! Writing Reversals Evaluation is an easy to perform test that only takes about ten minutes to administer, depending on your child’s abilities and age. It is for children aged five and up.
Lessons with Lisa
Sign up for Lessons with Lisa and receive help, advice, tips, and suggestions for your unique learner! Down to earth, applicable, and free, Lisa Harp, the founder of Bravo! Reading, guide you on your journey with your child’s learning success.
Whether you’re a parent, teacher, psychologist, school counselor, or a concerned relative, Lisa can help you on your journey to help your learner grow and learn academically. In addition, Lisa is a Dyslexia Expert and as been a teacher and educator for over forty years. Biweekly, you’ll receive instant tips, help, and practical advice to help your child succeed academically!
Bravo! Behavior Booster
If your child has bad feelings about reading, then there will most likely be a battle of some sort when it comes time to read. And the truth of it is, that if there’s a battle – even an internal one – then there won’t be much learning taking place.
Even if your child isn’t a behavior problem, the Bravo! Behavior Booster will help your child complete tasks and gain self-confidence because of it.
With a graduating task completion system, the Bravo! Behavior Booster gives you clear, easy ways to get your child to do what’s asked, whether it’s a homework assignment or just picking up toys off the floor!
If you can think of a task and a reward, your child will soon be feeling awesome about doing a fantastic job on homework, school work, reading, playing with friends, or turning off video games when asked.
You can come up with whatever works for your child and your family. From there, set up a task sheet, think of a reward, and get onto the positive behavior cycle with your child!
Get going now with our FREE Bravo! Reading resources!
Help your child gain crucially important decoding skills that translate into better fluency and comprehension skills with the Bravo! Punch Pack, the Bravo! Snap Pack, and the Bravo! Mini-Decoder Pack.
You can download the Bravo! Reading and Writing Reversals Evaluations and find indications of dyslexia immediately! Easy to use and quick to perform, the reversals evaluations help you decide which route to take if your child has dyslexia.
Lessons with Lisa is chock full of tips, advice, and applicable activities to help your child overcome learning and reading problems. Lisa, the founder of Bravo! Reading, Harp Learning Institute, and Harp Learning Academy, has been a certified teacher, educator, administrator, and Dyslexia Expert for over forty years. Lisa has a passion to help kids overcome learning challenges and is happy to share what she knows with you!
Finally, you can download the FREE Bravo! Behavior Booster and immediately get going with a plan of action to help your child complete tasks, change behaviors, or simply do something like pick up toys. Your child’s behavior can turn around in a matter of days. If you can think of a task and a reward, your child is on the way to behaving and completing tasks.
And the next thing you know…your child has become a Bravo! Reading Shark!
