sightwords.com
When I tried teaching my daughter to read, I assumed the internet would be full of step-by-step guides. Everything was a paragraph deep. The research-backed program I bought was good, but lacked lots of the practical details you need to teach. My neighbor Betsy, a veteran teacher, took over and was infintely better, with all the little extras decades of teaching gives you
Great 1:1 reading instruction is the kind of thing only the top 1% can afford. So we built the opposite: free, step-by-step, everything ready to go
The program includes lessons, videos, scripts, printables, troubleshooting. And no theory!
The site now serves about 800,000 people every year, many of them teachers. A few schools even use it as their official program and we have even held workshops to teach the teachers.
My coolest moment was getting recognized at the bank as “the reading guy.”