The Reader's Edge Versions

The Reader's Edge® is designed for use by individuals of all ages. This is accomplished by providing a wide range of reading selections which permit you to choose reading selections, by reading levels, making the program suitable for individuals of all ages, ranging from students to adult.

The Reader's Edge is not designed to teach you "how to read." Rather it teaches "Read To Learn Skills." Individuals, of any age, with a minimum level of reading ability, will experience dramatic improvement in their reading skills, i.e., speed, comprehension and recall.

The Reader's Edge® program includes ten exercises designed to guide you, sequentially, through the process of becoming an effective reader. Click here to view screenshots and learn about each exercise.

	B	P	N
Recognition Training New
Motility Training New
Horizontal Span
Vertical Span
Word Groups
Say It!
Continuous Text	-
Push Down - Push Up	-
High Speed Practice	-
Audio Readings	-

The Reader's Edge® is designed for multiple user access. It creates a separate account for each user added to the program, allowing them to personalize the program and track their individual progress. It also allows the built-in Exercise Coach to provide feedback and guided instruction based on each user’s progress.

After installing The Reader's Edge® program users are required to activate it within 7 days. The version of the program purchased determines the number of allowed installations.

The Basic version allows the program to be installed on one computer. The Pro version allows the program to be installed on any two computers of your choice. The Network version allows the program to be installed on one computer acting as a server.

The Reader's Edge® program is available for Windows® based operating systems.


Minimum System Requirements:

Order The Reader's Edge® with confidence! We guarantee you will enjoy your experience and at a MINIMUM double your reading speed, while improving your comprehension and recall.

If after a minimum of 15 minutes of practice, every other day, for thirty days, you don't double your reading speed, or for any reason you are not fully satisfied with your purchase, you may return it for a full refund within 30 days of purchase.

A unique feature of The Reader's Edge® is the built-in exercise coach. When enabled, the Exercise Coach monitors your progress and provides specific instructions and suggestions to ensure you're getting the most out of the program.

One of the great features of The Reader's Edge® is the use of Readability Analysis for each reading selection and comprehension test. We analyze reading material using the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level. This helps you determine if a particular reading selection is within their reading level.

One of the unique features of The Reader's Edge® program is the ability for users to rate reading selections and comprehension tests, so all users can benefit from the opinion of everyone.

Our goal is to help you improve your reading skills. Testing is part of that process. Some users know when their reading skills have improved because they are able to read more in less time. However, we still provide Speed & Comprehension Tests to help you measure your progress to give you an idea of how fast you are reading.

Using Microsoft's Text-to-Speech technology, we provide beginning readers and adults, who may have excellent speaking vocabularies, but who have the problem of “I don’t know what the word looks like” to improve their reading vocabulary by helping them learn what words look and sound like. Readers are able to become familiar with the oral pronunciation of words while seeing them displayed on the computer screen.

Addditionally users can type words in our Text-to-Speech exercise and have it read back to them. This helps individuals practice writing and seeing common text like phone numbers and home addresses.

A unique feature in The Reader's Edge® is the ability for users to select reading selections and comprehension tests based on their personal preference. After selecting a Content Preference, the program is loaded with material relating to the selected preference allowing users to begin working with the program without the need to locate reading material that is of interest to them. Some of the available content preferences include; Biographies, Business, Children's Reading Level 2-4, Children's Reading Level 5-6, Personal Development, Tom Hopkin's Edition and Young Adult Reading Level 7-12.

A great feature of The Reader's Edge® program is the ability of users to customize the program to their personal preference, allowing them to personalize program settings and make the learning process more enjoyable.

Users can see the improvement in their reading skills by generating assessment and progress reports. This easy to use section makes it easy to see the changes in your reading skills. After generating reports, you have the ability to view and print reports for your records.

Committed to excellence, The Literacy Company is always improving The Reader's Edge®. All users will receive web updates free of charge for life.

Updates on CD’s are also available at a nominal charge.

Individuals that have various degrees of Dyslexia quite often see improvements in their reading abilities after working with The Reader's Edge® software.

With The Reader's Edge exercises users can display text in single word, multiple word and sentence only structure. In addition, the font type and size can be adjusted to facilitate focusing on individual words or phrases, thus helping to remove the "distraction" of seeing others words when reading.

In addition, The Reader's Edge has been modified to recognize the Microsoft Windows® accessibility settings (window and font color). Individuals that have various degrees of Dyslexia can now work with The Reader’s Edge and read in a manner in which they are most comfortable. To learn how to customize the Windows accessibility settings on your computer visit the Microsoft Accessibility Resources website.

Adding the ability to import additional reading material from your local computer or network to The Reader's Edge®, makes it easy to read personal documents in the program. It provides an Import Wizard to help you locate and import a file into program.

The following file types can be imported into the program: doc, docx, htm, html, pdf, rtf, txt, wpd and wri.

The Reader's Edge® makes it easy to practice your reading skills with all types of text. With our Clipboard Text feature, you can read email, web pages, documents or any type of text by simply highlighting and copying the text into the program.

Users can see the improvement in their reading skills by generating assessment and progress reports. This easy to use section makes it easy to see the changes in your reading skills. After generating reports, you have the ability to view and print reports for your records.

New in Version 4.2.0.23 users can quickly backup and sync program data. This feature makes it quick and easy for users to change computers while retaining all program usage.

In addition, users of The Reader’s Edge Pro version can now quickly sync program data between multiple computers.

Users now have the ability to import PDF files into the exercises in The Reader's Edge. This feature makes it easy to read and practice with company documents or training material provided in PDF format.

The Reader's Edge® was designed to handle multiple users. We have made it easy for program administrators to manage user accounts with our Administrative Utilities:

User Manager	B	P	N
Add Users	3
Remove Users
Change User Name/Password
Grant/Remove Admin Privileges
Import Content to User Accounts	-
Modify User Content Preference	-
Import Word & Phrase Lists	-
Associate User Accounts with Grade	-	-
Manage User Accounts with Batch Files	-	-

Administrator Reports	B	P	N
Generate Reports for All Users	-
Print User Progress Reports	-
Delete Unwanted User Data	-
Print User Account Information	-
Generate Reports Based on Grade	-	-

Part of the process of improving your reading skills includes improving your vocabulary. We have done extensive research to provide you with a list of the 1,600 most common words in the English language. Practicing with this list of words, helps you become more familiar with the most commonly words seen in print today.

Pro & Network version users are able to add, change and edit the word & phrase lists used in the exercises as desired. This is very helpful for users that need to become more familiar with other "less common" words.

The Reader's Edge is distributed with these additional lists:

Academic Words ACT & SAT Words Action Verbs Adjectives Advanced Adverbs Banking Words & Phrases

Nouns Power Verbs Pronouns Specific Nouns University Words Verbs

Users of The Reader's Edge® Pro and Network versions have access to our online reading selections. This feature makes it easy for them to find additional reading selections of interest to them to import and read.

Users of The Reader's Edge® Pro and Network versions have access to our online comprehension tests. This feature makes it easy for them to find additional comprehension tests to import and practice with.

Not only do users of The Reader's Edge® Pro & Network version get free updates for life, they also get a guarantee to receive every new feature and exercise we release. We are constantly adding additional features and developing new training exercises to ensure our users have the best reading program on the market.

This unique feature provides users with an extensive variety of up-to-date reading material available from various news sources. RSS (Really Simply Syndication) is a technology that allows publishers to distribute material across the web.

Users of The Reader's Edge® Pro & Network version can easily add their favorite RSS feed to the program. Simply look for one of these images and add the feed to the program.