Dear Teacher:

• inclusion students who cannot keep up, despite the help of aides
  
  

• IEP students who cannot read well, even with the help of in-school interventions
  
  

• smart students who cannot keep their attention on their work
  
  

• children who seem bright but don't perform well
  
  

• children who just can't read well, no matter how hard everyone tries to help them
  

then perhaps we can make a big difference. Many of these problems involve students who need more intensive help with reading than they can get in a normal school environment.

Every year we help hundreds of children who might otherwise "slip through the cracks." Our program works because:

• We're affordable. At under $18 per hour, we're about half the cost of most commercial tutoring services.
  
  

• We provide children with a supportive, small-group environment (average class size is 5).
  
  

• Our curriculum helps children improve their skills in small steps that they can easily master.
  
  

• We focus on solving the biggest problem that most "problem readers" have: their inability to accurately recognize unfamiliar written words.
  

Our goal for each semester is to raise each child's reading skill by approximately one grade level. We've succeeded with many children who were unable to learn using other methods. We've helped children with learning disabilities, Down's Syndrome, ADD and ADHD, emotional disturbance, and other difficulties.

Here's why you can trust us to do what we say we do:

• We're the only tutoring service that displays its results to the general public online. We've published our individual results for each child we've ever taught since our first day of operation, and we also publish statistical summaries of our performance at each of our locations.  If you're interested in seeing our numbers, just click here.
  
  

• We're the only tutoring service that offers a 100% unconditional money-back guarantee.
  
  

• We're the only tutoring service that provides large numbers of testimonials and references from former customers that come complete with phone numbers so that you call them yourself. Please call our office number (see banner above) to get this list, or for a brochure or more information about us.

How Our Program Works

We hold classes at three locations:

• Bartlett, at the Bartlett Park District
  
• Batavia, at the Batavia Park District
  
• Oak Brook, at the Oak Brook Park District (during Fall and Winter) or one of the Butler 53 District public school buildings (during Summer)

Each semester we provide 39 hours of instruction, covering one complete unit of our curriculum. Each I Can Read! semester follows one of these formats:

• Winter (mid-January through April): Hour-long afternoon classes meet after school three times per week for 13 weeks.
  

• Spring/Summer (May through July, offered in Batavia and Bartlett only): Starts as an after-school program in May (just like Winter) but then switches to mornings and four days per week after school lets out in June, for a total of 12 weeks.
  
  
• Summer (mid-June through early August, offered in Oak Brook only): Hour-long morning classes meet five times per week for eight weeks.
  

• Fall (mid-September to mid-December): Hour-long afternoon classes meet after school three times per week for 13 weeks
  

This intensive schedule is necessary to build strong reading skills. Class times may be different in different communities, so please check our Scheduled Classes page for details.

How To Work With Us

If you feel that one or more of your students could benefit from our classes, all you have to do is refer them to us. There are three easy ways:

1. Simply send home a note asking each child's parent to call our info line (the 800 number above), or
   
   
2. Print out our flyer (click here) and send it home with each child you think could be helped. The flyer is in PDF format, so you'll need to download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader first if you don't already have it. When the flyer appears on your screen, print it by clicking the print button, or select "File|Print" from the menu. When printing, it is best to check these options on the print dialog box (the little box that pops up after you click the print button or select File|Print):
   • fit to page
   • print as image

   Other check boxes should be unchecked. If the printed image doesn't match the one on your screen, then try again but uncheck the "print as image" option.
   
   

3. Call us at 630-879-0620 and tell us how many students you'd like to refer, and we'll send you a custom full-color flyer and brochure to send home with each child.

For More Information

If you feel you need to know more before you'd be comfortable working with us, we understand! Please just call our office line (shown above) and ask to speak with our director, Dave Ziffer (just leave a message if he's not in). He'll send you more information and talk with you about how the I Can Read! program can meet your needs and the needs of your students and their parents. Thanks for considering us!