Imagine your child several months or years in the future ...

Is your son or daughter a smart child because he or she became an early reader, acquired a passion for knowledge, developed early language and literacy skills and has an air of confidence that will last them a lifetime?

Or is your child struggling to read, under performing at school and set-up for a lifetime of frustration and failure?

Of course everyone wants to be the proud parent of a happy and confident child. And every parent can.

But, in order to guarantee a brighter future for your child, it’s often necessary to take your child’s education into your own hands. Let me tell you why …

Teaching your child to use English proficiently might very well be the key to their success in school, in exams, in their careers and beyond.

Teaching your child might be the key, not only to their success in school and their careers, but arguably to their sense of self-worth and life itself.

And, if you want your child to grow up to be smart and successful, then you need to understand how important it is that you teach your child when their brain development is at its peak.

The cerebral cortex in your child’s brain is responsible for their sight, hearing, and smell. It also controls their speech, thinking, and memory. In fact, the cerebral cortex is what makes them – them! At birth, the cells in your child’s cerebral cortex were poorly connected (they are for everyone). However, by 2 to 3 years old, the cerebral cortex contains 100 trillion connections. And that number remains high until the eighth birthday when it begins to gradually decline and level off to adult levels. It’s ​very important to take the opportunity to teach children during this time when brain development is peaking.

  • Early & advanced English skills will make your child smarter.
  • Early & advanced English skills will improve problem solving.
  • Early & advanced English skills will improve planning, and abstract thinking skills.
  • Early & advanced English skills will help develop complex idea comprehension.
  • Early reading can help children compensate for modest levels of ability in other areas.

ON A PRACTICAL LEVEL, HOW IMPORTANT IS EARLY READING?

  • Your child’s reading ability and vocabulary at 3 years old might predict his or her success in school when they are 6 to 7 years old.
  • Your child’s reading ability at 6 to 7 years old might predict their success at 17 to 18 years old.
  • Your child’s reading ability at 7 to 8 years old might determine their graduation from senior school.

ON THE OTHER HAND:

  • Children who can’t read proficiently by 7 to 8 years old are four times more likely to leave school without a diploma/results than proficient readers.

AND:

  • Children who are not taught Phonemic Awareness, and therefore have to rely on memory have difficulty beginning to read and continue to have difficulty with new words.

BUT, SURELY SCHOOL WILL TEACH MY CHILD TO READ? SO, WHY DO I NEED TO BOTHER?

If this is what you are thinking, then you should know that you cannot rely on schools …

  • In the USA, almost 70% of children at school who are aged 9-10 years old cannot read proficiently!
  • And of those children, 33% of them read at only a very basic level, and 34% are reading at a very low level.
  • It’s not much different in the UK, where over 100,000 children leave school illiterate.
  • Or in Australia, where 33% of students aged 11 years old fail to meet literacy benchmarks.
  • Or in Canada, where 42% of the entire adult population is only semi-illiterate.

NO, YOU CANNOT RELY ON SCHOOLS.

But, why not?

  • Teachers don’t always understand the basic building blocks of language and reading
  • Teachers don’t always know how to teach English language concepts
  • There just aren’t enough qualified teachers
  • Classes are too big
  • Kids don’t get enough attention from teachers in the classroom
  • Schools aren’t using the correct teaching systems – e.g relying just on rote learning or sight words
  • Schools are overwhelmed and have tried to shift some of the burden of teaching onto apps and computers

UNFORTUNATELY, IT IS A FACT THAT:

Being illiterate is a guaranteed ticket to a dead end.

YOU NEED TO TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR CHILD’S EDUCATION – TODAY!

BUT HOW?

You can begin by teaching RTL English to your child.

By Teaching your child to read with RTL English, your child will develop early reading skills that will help put them years ahead of other children. So, if you’ve decided that you want to become a proud parent of a happy and smart child, then you owe it to your child to try the RTL English.

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We Help Parents Teach English To Their Children

RTL English™ offers 600 easy-to-teach & downloadable English lessons for parents to teach to their children at home. RTL English will give your child a head start, or help them catch up. It also challenges more advanced students. RTL English offers 15 years of learning for children aged 3 to 18 years old; so whatever your child’s ability, there’s sure to be an RTL English course that’s suitable for them.

RTL English™ is an award-winning and transformational English teaching system. For over 24 years, RTL English has been taught millions of times to children in 21 countries worldwide. RTL English is a ‘print-ready’ solution that offers 600 workbooks comprising 4,000 worksheets and 19,000 teaching notes that together can save parents and tutors over 22,000 hours of preparation time.

Winning Awards  Since 1996

With 24 years of research, development, dedication and experience, RTL English is committed to offering the best possible start to English language learners worldwide. RTL English is part of the Ready To Learn group, an international educational organisation with students in 21 countries worldwide.

Elaine Shannon founded Ready To Learn in 1996, and is an internationally respected author, language expert and School Principal with more than 40 years of specialist experience. Elaine & her team of instructional designers, linguists and educational experts developed the RTL English Curriculum.

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The RTL English Curriculum: Kids 3 to 18 Years Old

Whatever your child’s age or English language ability, there is sure to be an RTL English course (aka ‘levels’) that will help your child learn or improve their English. This is because our curriculum provides 15 years of learning for children aged 3 to 18 years old and teaches all the communicative functions and language forms your child will need to have a richer, more successful educational experience.RTL English will also supplement your child’s learning at their school. In fact, RTL English supports learning at schools worldwide and supports the English language requirements of the National Curricula in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, China, India, Hong Kong SAR & many other countries. It will also holistically prepare your child for Cambridge University’s Young Learner Tests, as well as KETS, PETS, FCE, CAE, IELTS, and Trinity College London’s suite of English language tests.

The RTL English Curriculum consists of 15 years (levels) of teaching materials which include 600 workbooks (comprised of 4,000 worksheets & 19,000 teaching notes) and saves over 2,000 days of preparation time.

Level 1

for children aged 3-4 years old

36 lessons. 36 workbooks. 252 worksheets. 1134 teaching instructions.

Level 2

for children aged 4-5 years old

36 lessons. 36 workbooks. 252 worksheets. 1134 teaching instructions.

Level 3

for children aged 5-6 years old

36 lessons. 36 workbooks. 252 worksheets. 1134 teaching instructions.

Level 4

for children aged 6-7 years old

36 lessons. 36 workbooks. 252 worksheets. 1134 teaching instructions.

Level 5

for children aged 7-8 years old

36 lessons. 36 workbooks. 252 worksheets. 1134 teaching instructions.

Level 6

for children aged 8-9 years old

36 lessons. 36 workbooks. 252 worksheets. 1134 teaching instructions.

Level 7

for children aged 9-10 years old

36 lessons. 36 workbooks. 252 worksheets. 1134 teaching instructions.

Level 8

for children aged 10-11 years old

36 lessons. 36 workbooks. 252 worksheets. 1134 teaching instructions.

Level 9

for children aged 11-12 years old

36 lessons. 36 workbooks. 252 worksheets. 1134 teaching instructions.

Level 10

for children aged 12-13 years old

36 lessons. 36 workbooks. 252 worksheets. 1134 teaching instructions.

Level 11

for children aged 13-14 years old

36 lessons. 36 workbooks. 252 worksheets. 1134 teaching instructions.

Level 12

for children aged 14-15 years old

36 lessons. 36 workbooks. 252 worksheets. 1134 teaching instructions.

Level 13

for children aged 15-16 years old

36 lessons. 36 workbooks. 252 worksheets. 1134 teaching instructions.

Level 14

for children aged 16-17 years old

36 lessons. 36 workbooks. 252 worksheets. 1134 teaching instructions.

Level 15

for children aged 17-18 years old

8 lessons. 8 workbooks. 56 worksheets. 252 teaching instructions.

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What Happens In A Lesson?

  • Each lesson is designed to last approximately 60 minutes. Normally, your child will spend 55 minutes participating in learning activities, and 5 minutes completing an achievement exercise that’s used to reinforce the lessons’ learning designs & objectives.
  • Each lesson is accompanied by an RTL English lesson workbook. The workbook consists of six worksheets of instructional content and one reinforcement exercise page.
  • You will use the workbook & teaching notes to guide and lead your child through the variety of learning activities in the workbook.
  • Although all of our workbooks follow a similar format, each one is slightly more challenging than the last in the sequence. As a result, your child will be able to advance in small manageable steps & acquire English language skills that will last them a lifetime.
  • There are 5 learning stages, 15 learning levels and 600 lessons in the RTL English curriculum.
  • Your child will need to complete 36 lessons to finish one learning level – which lasts approximately 1 academic year.
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What Will My Child Be Taught?

It depends on your child’s age and their English language ability. To find out what your child will be taught, please click the grey button & then click the book cover that’s closest to your child’s current age → Lesson Workbooks

The RTL English Curriculum teaches all the communicative functions and language forms your child will need to succeed in school, exams and beyond, including:

  • Phonemic Awareness
  • Alphabetic Principle
  • Systematic & Explicit Phonics
  • Fluency with Text
  • Proficient Grammar Knowledge
  • Creative Writing
  • Expanded Vocabulary
  • Advanced Comprehension, and
  • Confident Speaking Skills

What Will My Child Learn?

 

  • Phonological & Phonemic Awareness

Teaching children to become phonologically aware is a prerequisite for studying phonics and leads to reading and spelling proficiency. Your child will learn how to notice, think about & manipulate the individual sounds in spoken words.

  • Systematic Phonics

Your child will learn that systematic and predictable relationships exist between written letters and spoken sounds. Our students learn sound to symbol relationships in a clearly defined sequence including consonants, blends, segmenting, short and long vowels, consonant and vowel digraphs, diphthongs and variant sound to symbol relationships.

  • Listening Comprehension

Your child will learn to understand explicitly stated facts in spoken language, as well as to implicitly understand and draw inferences from spoken passages that feature complicated syntax and advanced vocabulary.

  • Spelling, Vocabulary & Semantic

Your child will learn to understand the meaning of word parts (morphology), individual words within the language (vocabulary) and that those words are arranged in phrases, sentences and discourse in meaningful ways. We promote new vocabulary retention and recall by first teaching common spelling patterns and phonetically-regular words, before moving on to more difficult, irregular words.

  • Pronunciation, Speaking & Oral

Your child will learn to produce individual sounds and their combinations, first in isolation and then as part of communicative activities and oral presentations. Pronunciation development focuses on the production of native-like English rhythm, stress, and intonation.

  • Reading Comprehension

Your child will learn to derive meaning from text. This involves all elements of the reading process working together as a text is read to create a representation of the text in your child’s mind. We use guided oral reading and story structure comprehension strategies to enhance student comprehension.

  • Over 24 years, our students have frequently out performed other students in Cambridge University tests by 20% despite being up to 2 years younger than other candidates. In fact, in In recent years, an average of 90%+ of our Starters, Movers & Flyers students achieved 4+ shields across all three skill areas examined: reading & writing, listening and speaking.

 

 

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RTL English Learning System

The RTL English Learning System offers a transformative step-by-step method of study with 5 developmentally appropriate stages, 15 series of increasing difficulty, and over 500 step-by-step lessons.

RTL English will give your child a head start, or help them catch up. It also challenges more advanced students. RTL English offers 15 years of learning for children aged 3 to 18 years old; so whatever your child's ability, there's sure to be an RTL English workbook that's suitable for them. For over 26 years, RTL English has been taught millions of times to children in 21 countries worldwide.

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