Back To Basics

Students are required to take responsibility for their own success. Under the guidance of a trained Powerline teacher, students are introduced to the exciting world of learning as they use this highly structured, carefully sequenced, phonics-based, cassette/CD program.

POWERLINE teaches students how to:

PAY ATTENTION, LISTEN, PERCEIVE, THINK, REMEMBER, AND ACT!

Many students with reading, writing, and spelling problems have to be told a dozen times before  they comprehend or master a specific skill or concept. The Powerline Remedial Reading Program cassettes/CDs are effective because important concepts or skills are presented numerous times in different ways and in multiple lessons until each concept is mastered.

A CAREFULLY DESIGNED PROGRESSION OF SKILLS

Phonics is the main track on which the Powerline Reading Program runs. However, it is just one of the components the program contains. For example, there are over 140 specific activities interwoven throughout the program to help the students develop their visual perception, and over 200 activities to help students develop their auditory sequencing and discrimination (crucial skills used in reading and spelling). The program starts with very simple exercises and advances to more sophisticated exercises in the final lessons. Components necessary for the accomplished reader and speller are woven into the program at the appropriate time. Included in these are: