The Complete Happy Cheetah Reading System
$399
The Complete Happy Cheetah Reading System
By laying a foundation and building slowly, Happy Cheetah teaches your student to read in just a few minutes a day.
$399
Product Code: 198-001
Complete Course
Mastery Learning
Multiple Grades
Nonreligious
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Happy Cheetah
If your child struggles with reading, if you tried other programs that only led to a sense of failure in your child, or if you are working with a child and his progress has stalled for far too long - before you throw in the towel, consider Happy Cheetah.
Using current research on reading and how the brain learns, Happy Cheetah lays a foundation and builds slowly, using repetition to build fluency. This program focuses on one skill at a time and uses copy work to give your students plenty of time to absorb the details. The success with remedial readers, special needs readers, and even children for whom English is a second language is impressively quick. Children will find Happy Cheetah’s collection of funny stories and simple questions engaging, and you will find their progress satisfying. Happy Cheetah includes everything you need to start, including a money-back 30-day return guarantee.
Other reading programs are based on decades-old research that studied struggling students. Happy Cheetah Reading considers recent research on how students successfully learn to read.
All readers follow the same steps to literacy, though some readers just do it faster than others. Whether your students are ages 3 or 18, Happy Cheetah Reading teaches successful readers' methods so your students experience reading success.
No Rules to Memorize
No Tears and Frustration
Uses Current Research
No Electronics Needed
No Prep Time
Each lesson takes only about 20 minutes, and you'll spend every minute in effective, strategic interaction—no wasted time. Happy Cheetah is an elementary language arts program; phonics, handwriting, punctuation and grammar, spelling, reading comprehension, creative expression, and storytelling.
Happy Cheetah Reading starts from a different foundation. Rather than building on assumptions about how children learn to read, Happy Cheetah Reading incorporates current research on how successful readers learn to read and how the brain learns most effectively. Happy Cheetah Reading works! In her practice, Dr. Karen Holinga has had 100% success helping children move forward in learning to read.
The process of learning to read is the same for everyone, so this program works whether you are teaching an eager young student, an older elementary student, a struggling middle schooler, an ESL adult, or anyone!
The Happy Cheetah Reading System works even for children with cognitive challenges and traumatic brain injuries. Students' reading can progress according to their language development, what they understand, their speech, how well they communicate, and what books they can listen to and understand.
The techniques of the Happy Cheetah Reading System work. Some students might never read college-level materials, but they can progress to the extent of their level of communication understanding.
Of course, with traumatic brain injuries, you should be under the oversight of a doctor and not push learning before you have been medically released to do so.
Each lesson takes about 20 minutes.
We also advocate for hearing as much good literature as possible, either through a parent reading aloud or through audiobooks. The more time your child can listen to quality books, the better.
No training is required. If you can read, you can teach your child to read using this simple program.
Happy Cheetah requires no daily preparation; simply follow the instructions in the workbook. There's no teacher's manual, no crafts, and no photocopying.
Your child should be developmentally ready to write since Happy Cheetah Reading begins with handwriting. Most parents like to begin with handwriting around age four or five. If your child struggles with writing, you might put the program aside for a few months. Three months can make a tremendous difference developmentally.
As for reading itself, research shows that the optimal time for teaching children to read is from the ages of six to eight. Prior to that, read to your child. Ideally, you'd log a thousand hours before you start to teach reading.
Have an eager child, age four or five? You are welcome to start Happy Cheetah Reading at any point, but if your child seems stressed at all—fidgeting, balking at coming to the table, crying—put the program aside for a few months. You have time.
You are not alone, and there is hope.
Yes. Happy Cheetah Reading was designed so that children with auditory processing disorders can be successful. The program includes the only guaranteed way to help children with auditory processing disorders move forward.
Yes, though you might need some additional support. A book included in Happy Cheetah, Dr. Karen's Cure for Reading and Writing Challenges, explains step-by-step what you need to do.
Take the reading assessment here to find out where to start. And remember—starting lower is always better, so your children gain confidence!
Children who complete Happy Cheetah are reading at a mid-3rd-grade level and are ready for chapter books. Some children who have just mastered reading will do best to put off formal literature studies and focus on fostering their love for reading. Parents can introduce these children to a variety of books, especially ones that are aligned with their child's passions and areas of interest. On the other hand, some children are voracious readers and ready to broaden their horizons by jumping into a literature program. The Mosdos Opal curriculum included in our 3rd-grade kits can be an excellent choice for these children.
A few sections are student-paced rather than lesson-based, but the course is approximately 501 lessons in total.
The Complete Reading System includes:
- 5 workbooks
- 12 readers
- Various pamphlets and brochures
- Magnetic dry-erase board
- A-B-C-D cards
- Dry-erase markers
- Dry-erase alphabet tracing cards (4” x 5½”)
- Magnetic letters
- Card game sets 1, 2, & 3 (2” x 3½” cards)
- Post-it labeling and coverup tape
- Pencil grip
- Mini-colored pencils
- EASY button
Please note: This workbook is for using the Happy Cheetah program with additional children. The publisher makes these workbooks available for families who already own elements of Happy Cheetah and would like to use it with other students.
Getting Ready: Handwriting and Early Reading Workbook
Because the research proves that copy work is integral to helping students learn to read quickly and easily, that is where the Happy Cheetah Reading System starts. It then moves to phonics from handwriting, where students learn the connection between sounds and written letters. The Getting Ready workbook introduces your students to printing. It uses a developmentally-appropriate sequence for capital and lowercase letters, so all beginning writers learn efficiently and quickly.
Getting Ready also uses a unique font. Dr. Karen developed this font to address handwriting issues that she regularly sees in her clinical practice. You can prevent letter reversals from the very beginning! After learning to print all the individual letters, students move into beginning copy work. Next, they start to work on hearing individual sounds in words (also called phonemic awareness) and finally practice writing numerals.
Please note: This workbook is for using the Happy Cheetah program with additional children. The publisher makes these workbooks available for families who already own elements of Happy Cheetah and would like to use it with other students.
Cub Starting Workbook: Level 1
The Cub Starting Workbook Level 1 introduces your student to the methods all successful readers use. Regular copy work encourages swift reading development. Enjoyable exercises keep your student interested while improving skills.
Please note: This workbook is for using the Happy Cheetah program with additional children. The publisher makes these workbooks available for families who already own elements of Happy Cheetah and would like to use it with other students.
Cub Walking Workbook: Level 2
The Cub Walking Workbook: Level 2 workbook continues to build on the lessons in Workbook: Level 1. Regular copy work encourages swift reading development. Enjoyable exercises keep your student interested while improving skills.
Please note: This workbook is for using the Happy Cheetah program with additional children. The publisher makes these workbooks available for families who already own elements of Happy Cheetah and would like to use it with other students.
Cub Running Workbook: Level 3
Continue to build your student’s skills with the Cub Running Workbook: Level 3. Regular copy work encourages swift reading development. Enjoyable exercises keep your student interested while improving skills.
Please note: This workbook is for using the Happy Cheetah program with additional children. The publisher makes these workbooks available for families who already own elements of Happy Cheetah and would like to use it with other students.
Cheetah Ready Workbook: Level 4
In Cheetah Ready Workbook: Level 4, there is a strong emphasis on reading fluently, continued emphasis on the all-important copy work, and a deeper focus on spelling. Enjoyable exercises keep your student interested while improving skills.
Publisher: Happy Cheetah Reading
Author: Karen J. Holinga, Ph.D.
Illustrator: Timberlee Harris
Age Recommendation: 5+
Grade Recommendation: K+
Faith-Based: No
Consumable: Yes (workbooks)
Lessons: Approx. 501 lessons in the complete program
Format: Softcover, manipulatives
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