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 Site designed for Copilot & Read Aloud on MS Edge 

Johnnie Doe, professor emeritus of English

Welcome to Totally Literate

 

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We warmly invite you to explore our Totally Literate website. We hope you’ll enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed creating it. We bid you to come often, stay long, achieving 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, that keeps decoding constant while presenting subject matter that is, at times, deliberately highbrow. To wit —​​

Dr. McNabb

"No thanks, no sweets!" said Doctor McNabb. "Not a slab, not even a dab. You see I am trying to lose some flab. Therefore, I eat just crab and I drink just Tab. Now please bring me my bill, or call it a tab if you will. But let’s not confab, or in other words gab – for I must hasten back to my lab."

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As his waitress left to tally his tab, McNabb continued to blab, saying something about taking a stab at not paying his tab.

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Then he fled outside and quickly grabbed a cab. But thanks to the police, he was soon nabbed, a criminal tabbed.

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From then on his life was dreary and drab.

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If you'd like to listen to Story 1, press its title and then hold down Ctrl + Shift + U, as shown in the header. To hear the whole page, click “Welcome” and press Ctrl + Shift + U.

​​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 time after time.

 

As for fast learners, they 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—

Welcome • Bienvenido • Bienvenue • Willkommen • Benvenuto • 欢迎 • ようこそ • 환영합니다 • स्वागत • Bem-vindo • Добро пожаловать • Καλώς ορίσατε • Welkom​​

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