English for Speakers of Other Languages
English language learners greatly benefit from Reading Horizons’ explicit, systematic phonics instruction, vocabulary enrichment, and cultural education. Read on to find out why this revolutionary phonics program is so effective for ESL/ESOL students:
Learn about the benefits of the Reading Horizons program.
Solutions
Our interactive software and direct instruction materials work hand-in-hand to create a reading system that generates fast results for ESL/ESOL students. We offer affordable professional development that gives teachers the skills they need to effectively teach our method. Click on the links below to find out more:
Research
Find out why Reading Horizons really work! Click on the links below to read research studies and product reviews:
Recommendations
Thousands of teachers have seen Reading Horizons change the lives of their students over the past two decades. The following links provide a sampling of what teachers have said and where they are located:
Webinars
Learn practical ideas for using bottom-up strategies with your ESL/ESOL students by downloading recorded Webinars created specifically for ESL/ESOL professionals:
ESL Say (Windows only)
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Improve pronunciation with ESL Say. Diagrams show proper tongue placement to dramatically improve pronunciation. There is a feature that allows the student to record their voice and compare with the correct pronunciation. |
ESL World Map
Here are some locations where Reading Horizons is being used.
- English Language Center, BYU, Provo Utah
- Bebedouro, Brazil
- Singapore International School, Indonesia
- Pusan University of Foreign Studies, South Korea
- South Ramat Golan, Israel
- Koins for Kenya, Kenya, Africa
- Rising Star Outreach, India
- West Indies
- Hualien, Taiwan
- Tonga
Read about the lessons learned from life as an educator in the ESL world by Heidi Hyte.
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“I tell everyone about the Reading Horizons program when I talk about reading. My students LOVE Reading Horizons, and I love using it!”
“After this workshop I feel able to explicitly teach phonetic skills. In most teacher preparation courses or in-service sessions, how to teach phonics is not covered. I’m very anxious to begin using this new knowledge.”
Dr. Neil Anderson
Brigham Young University
ELC Coordinator and former President of TESOL
New for Reading Horizons!
Reading Horizons 4.1 contains several New Features including English for Special Purposes databases that focus on five specific areas of interest: Medical, Business, Travel, Hospitality, and School. Also included are three new alternative language narrations, including: Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Haitian-Creole
The brand new Decoding Strategies for Literacy Development manual contains all of the skills taught in the teacher manuals, but condenses it into one manual that can be used by teachers, paraprofessionals, and tutors as a classroom manual, and for self-study.
April, 2007
“This system actually provides a way to make sense of our language and to empower the individual learners so that they can go forth and make use of it and become productive members of our society and of theirs.”
— Maryruth Farnsworth | Watch Video
—Nadia Kohistani, Minneapolis, Minnesota
—Jaime Alvarado, Needville, Texas
Download Contents of ESL supplement in Decoding Strategies for Literacy Development.
