K5 Reading

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Grade 5: reading comprehension. Use context clues to help Jermaine solve the mystery of the missing hat.

An award-winning online reading program for kids

Young kids learn to read; for the rest of their lives, they read to learn. We want every child to become a great reader.

Our personalized online reading program will help build your child’s confidence and love of reading.

Research-based reading enrichment activities

Thousands of students have had success with K5 Reading and its 1,500 tutorials and activities. Our online reading curriculum is based on instructional guidelines laid out by the National Reading Panel, and on best practices employed by teachers and reading specialists.

5 key reading skills

Our kindergarten through grade 5 online reading curriculum covers 5 key skill areas:

Phonemic Awareness – identifying and working with individual sounds in spoken words.

Phonics – understanding the relationships between written letters and spoken sounds.

Sight Words – recognizing high frequency words to increase reading fluency.

Vocabulary - expansion of vocabulary and construction of meaningfrom a word's context.

Reading Comprehension – developing a variety of reading strategies with the larger goal of strong comprehension.

Online reading lessons personalized for your child

We recommend that students complete our free online reading assessment.  We use the assessment data to create a customized learning program for your child. Each child is then placed at an appropriate level of instruction in each skill area.

Kids work at their skill level, not grade level

Lessons that are too easy are boring.  Lessons that are too hard are frustrating.  We place students according to their skills, not their grade levels.  A child may be placed at an early grade 3 level in phonics and a mid-grade 1 level in vocabulary, or vice versa.  Our Guide to Reading Levels summarizes the material taught at each level.

Kids work independently

K5 minimizes the burden on parents. Point and click interfaces and repeated spoken instructions allow kids as young as 4 to use K5 Reading independently.

Kids don’t watch, they interact

The lessons are highly interactive, continually prompting the student to respond. This is critical in maintaining children’s focus and generating positive learning outcomes.

Lesson sequence is controlled

Reading lessons are automatically chosen by the system based on your child’s needs. K5 students cannot choose lessons at an inappropriate level or continue to repeat ‘fun’ lessons that they have already mastered.

Full instruction, not just quizzes

All of our lessons start with a full interactive tutorial so kids can learn new materials, not just practice what they have learned elsewhere. Tutorials are followed by practice sessions and finally a quiz.

Real world themes keep kids engaged

K5 Reading lessons are 100% online and animated with fun ‘role model’ characters and real world themes. After completing a lesson, kids move on to a new theme in a different skill area.

Feedback is immediate

K5 Reading lets your child know right away when they get something right or wrong. Kids remember better and are more motivated when they receive immediate feedback.

Interactivity + feedback = big advantage over worksheets

The interactivity and immediate feedback of K5 Reading creates a learning platform with big advantages over traditional worksheets, workbooks and quizzing software.

Bite-sized lessons provide flexibility

Lessons are broken into 5-10 minute segments so that study sessions can be short and flexible. Kids learn better with short but frequent study sessions.

Parents get reports

Parents can access comprehensive reports on their child’s progress at any time.

Parents can create special assignments

Parents can assign any of our lessons to their child at any time, for extra practice in a particular area.