
The Need to Read
Teachers want to use their time and expertise to teach, not to spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours on professional training courses and prep work!

A Taste for Mnemonics
The Stevenson Program uses visual clues to help teach the full range of word attack skills, from learning letters to recognizing vowel patterns to unlocking multi-syllable words. Below, you see the mnemonic clue that teaches the letter c. Along with this clue Stevenson provides multi-sensory activities and direct instruction to elicit the hard sound of c and associate it with the letter shape. This approach to sound/symbol correspondence is thorough, but not unique. The Stevenson Program, however, takes this approach a step further.

How the Stevenson Reading Program Began
In the words of Bill Stevenson, Nancy Stevenson’s son