Parents and teachers have found that LTK teaches to a student's strengths while improving their weakest learning pathways. Our unique Dictation exercises do not exist in any other software available today!
Assessment
All versions of LTK offer an automatic placement test. The LTK Placement Test determines students' reading skills and places the student at the appropriate starting lesson. A manual version of this test is available free for download.
The Language Tune-Up Kit® Reading Software is a Proven Solution
Our software has been used by tens of thousands of families and schools around the world. It is highly effective for ages 6 - adult who currently read at grade levels 0 -4. It is solidly based on the Orton-Gillingham principles that still remain as the most successful ever devised to help those with reading difficulties.
How LTK Works
All instruction is provided by prerecorded human voice, so it's just like working directly with a teacher.
LTK teaches a student how to sound out letter combinations and make them into words. It does this through audio, visual and tactile-kinesthetic (learn by "doing") exercises.
LTK lesson exercises teach skills in word building, audio recognition (identifying the sounds made by letter combinations), oral reading of words/sentences and stories (with questions), dictation (where the student types phrases/sentences provided by the program), quizzes and sight words (words that do not conform to phonetic spelling rules).
LTK provides comprehensive reports to help parents and teachers determine areas of weakness and student performance.
After completing LTK's 87 lessons, students can decode and read 90% of all words in the English language. The remaining 10% are words that do not follow word-building rules.