We warmly invite you to explore our Totally Literate website. We hope you’ll enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed creating it. Come often, stay long, and make steady progress toward a full complement of literacy skills.

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Totally Literate is built on our flagship vessel, The Red Well‑Read Reader — 360 rhyming stories that systematically cover the entire phonological make‑up of the English language. Each story has one distinctly marked, predominant rhyme, keeping decoding constant while presenting subject matter that is, at times, deliberately highbrow.

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This unique combination ensures that slow learners remain confident and steady, never overwhelmed and despondent. The clear, predominant rhyme gives them a reliable anchor, allowing them to decode successfully from the very get‑go.

 

At the same time, fast learners never become bored or disengaged. The occasional highbrow content is not a barrier; they will sense the humor, see it in their teacher’s smiling face, and hear it in her tongue‑in‑cheek delivery. Knowing there's a joke that's over their heads, they will bemusingly giggle and laugh despite not fully comprehending it. (Generally, all the stories are jocular due to their rhyming nature.)

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To parents, teachers, and students around the world—