A PowerPoint detailing the content of The Reading Repairer and explaining why and how it should be helpful for teaching older students with poor reading skills. Helpful information for those considering using The Reading Repairer or alternative programs.

Designed for older students giving them independent work that teaches them basic beginning phonics and sight words as well as providing practise in writing a sentence.

Information about various animals is presented and students use this information to answer questions using proper sentences. Repetition is used to reinforce basic sentence writing and phonics skill development. The second half of the workbook moves up a level in difficulty of reading and the expectations of what students will write. They are also required to rewrite challenging sentences, find more information about each animal and to use a thesaurus.

This booklet of activities provides beginning readers who are older, with repeated opportunities to learn to write short proper sentences and learn to read the first 40 dolch words. An animal picture commences each lesson and the questions asked enable a written short sentence response from learners. This is largely independent written work for these students - which is hard to find.