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Most students who struggle with reading haven't had enough practice with foundational skills like phonics, sight words, and comprehension strategies. When students get consistent practice with the right building blocks and fill in any gaps, they can become confident readers. Learn To Be provides free, 1-on-1 tutoring focused on strengthening these core literacy skills and giving students the practice time they need to succeed.

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Reading Courses Available

Jump right into our structured reading courses designed to build literacy skills step-by-step. Each course contains bite-sized lessons that students can practice and master:

Learning To Read Curriculum

1870 lessons available

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Description A comprehensive phonics-based curriculum that takes students from letter sounds to fluent reading. Starting with individual sounds a...

Sample Lessons:

Level 1.1: Meet the sound "a"
Level 1.2: Meet the sound "a" part 2
Level 1.3: Listen and find the 'a' sound
Level 1.4: Find the 'a' sound
Level 1.5: Find the 'a' sound: race cars
Level 1.6: Find the 'a' on the move
Level 1.7: Find the 'a' in a word
Level 1.8: Listen and find the 'a' sound
Level 2.1: Meet the sound "m"
Level 2.2: Meet the sound "m" part 2
Level 2.3: Listen and find the 'm' sound
Level 2.4: Find the 'm' sound
+ 1858 more lessons...

Reading Fundamentals Course

22 lessons available

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Description A focused course on word building and decoding fundamentals. Students practice constructing words from sounds and letter patterns, s...

Sample Lessons:

Word Building 1
Word Chaining 1
Word Building 2
Word Chaining 2
Word Building 3
Word Chaining 3
Word Building 4
Word Chaining 4
Word Building 5
Word Chaining 5
Word Building 6
Word Chaining 6
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Kindergarten Reading

38 lessons available

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Description Kindergarten-level reading comprehension passages covering science, social studies, and the world around us. Students read short tex...

Sample Lessons:

Science: My Five Senses — Eyes, Ears, Nose, Tongue, Hands
Science: My Body — Bones, Muscles, and Skin
Science: Healthy Food — What Your Body Needs to Grow
Science: Germs and Washing Hands — Staying Healthy
Science: Going to the Doctor — What Happens at a Checkup
Science: Sleep — Why Your Body Needs Rest
Science: Teeth — How to Take Care of Your Smile
Science: Farm Animals — Cows, Chickens, Pigs, and What They Give Us
Science: Baby Animals and Their Parents
Science: Animals in Winter — Hibernation and Migration
Science: Animals That Live in the Ocean
Science: Insects — Ants, Bees, Butterflies
+ 26 more lessons...

1st Grade Reading

38 lessons available

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Description First-grade reading comprehension with nonfiction passages across science and social studies. Topics include the human body, animal ...

Sample Lessons:

Science: Your Five Senses — Eyes, Ears, Nose, Tongue, Skin
Science: Bones and Muscles — What Holds You Up
Science: Your Heart — The Pump That Never Stops
Science: Food and Nutrition — Why Your Body Needs Fuel
Science: Your Lungs — Breathing In and Out
Science: Your Brain — The Boss of Your Body
Science: Germs and Your Immune System — How Your Body Fights Back
Science: Mammals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles — Animal Groups
Science: Life Cycles — Egg to Frog, Seed to Tree
Science: Migration — Animals That Travel With the Seasons
Science: Life in the Ocean — Coral Reefs and Deep Water
Science: Insects and Spiders — Small Creatures, Big Jobs
+ 26 more lessons...

2nd Grade Reading

24 lessons available

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Description Second-grade reading comprehension featuring longer nonfiction passages on the digestive system, ecosystems, weather patterns, ancie...

Sample Lessons:

The Digestive System — Where Food Goes After You Swallow
Germs and Your Immune System — How Your Body Fights Back
The Brain — The Boss of Your Body
Healthy Habits — Sleep, Exercise, and Hygiene
Insects vs. Spiders — How to Tell the Difference
Bees and Pollination — Why Flowers Need Bugs
Metamorphosis — Caterpillar to Butterfly, Tadpole to Frog
Ants — Tiny Engineers That Build Underground Cities
Layers of the Earth — Crust, Mantle, Core
The Water Cycle — Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation
Erosion — How Wind and Water Change the Land
Types of Rocks — Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic
+ 12 more lessons...

3rd Grade Reading

24 lessons available

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Description Third-grade reading comprehension covering cells, body systems, ecosystems, space, ancient Rome, colonial America, and more. Passage...

Sample Lessons:

Cells — The Tiny Building Blocks of Life
The Circulatory System — A Highway of Blood
The Respiratory System — Every Breath You Take
The Nervous System — Your Body's Electrical Wiring
Ecosystems — How Living Things Depend on Each Other
Food Chains and Food Webs — Who Eats Whom
Endangered Species — When Animals Disappear
Habitats — Deserts, Rainforests, Tundra, and More
Light — How We See the World
Sound Waves — How You Hear Music
Heat and Temperature — Why Things Get Hot and Cold
Electricity — The Invisible Power in Your Walls
+ 12 more lessons...

4th Grade Reading

38 lessons available

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Description Fourth-grade reading comprehension with in-depth nonfiction on atoms and molecules, body systems, nutrition science, geology, the Am...

Sample Lessons:

Science: Your Body Is Made of Chemicals — Atoms, Molecules, and Water
Science: The Endocrine System — Hormones and How They Control Your Body
Science: The Muscular-Skeletal System — How Bones and Muscles Work Together
Science: The Immune System — How Your Body Fights Disease
Science: Nutrition Science — Calories, Vitamins, and What Food Actually Does
Science: Biomes of the World — Tundra, Desert, Rainforest, Grassland
Science: The Rainforest — Layers of Life From Floor to Canopy
Science: Adaptation — How Animals Change to Survive
Science: Camouflage, Mimicry, and Survival Tricks
Science: Evolution — How Species Change Over Millions of Years
Science: Fossils and the Fossil Record — Reading the Story in Stone
Science: Coral Reefs and Deforestation — Ecosystems Under Threat
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5th Grade Reading

38 lessons available

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Description Fifth-grade reading comprehension exploring DNA and genetics, the microbiome, puberty, the brain, climate change, westward expansion...

Sample Lessons:

Science: Puberty — How Your Body Changes and Why
Science: DNA and Genetics — The Code That Makes You You
Science: Heredity — Why You Look Like Your Parents (But Not Exactly)
Science: The Microbiome — Trillions of Tiny Organisms Living Inside You
Science: The Brain and Nervous System — How Thoughts Become Actions
Science: Cells and Cell Division — How Your Body Grows and Repairs Itself
Science: The Five Kingdoms of Life — From Bacteria to Animals
Science: Bacteria and Viruses — The Smallest Things That Change the World
Science: Photosynthesis — How Plants Turn Sunlight Into Food
Science: Fungi and Decomposition — Nature's Recyclers
Science: Ecosystems and Energy Flow — How Energy Moves Through Living Systems
Science: Symbiosis — When Different Species Live Together
+ 26 more lessons...

6th Grade Reading

38 lessons available

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Description Sixth-grade reading comprehension covering interconnected body systems, vaccines and antibiotics, the adolescent brain, sleep scienc...

Sample Lessons:

Science: Body Systems Working Together — Why No Organ Works Alone
Science: The Immune System — How Your Body Fights Disease
Science: Vaccines and Antibiotics — The Science That Saved Millions
Science: The Adolescent Brain — Why Teens Think Differently
Science: Sleep Science — What Happens to Your Brain at Night
Science: The Endocrine System Revisited — Hormones During Puberty
Science: Addiction — How Substances Hijack the Brain's Reward System
Science: Inside a Cell — Organelles and What They Do
Science: Cell Division — How You Grow and Heal
Science: DNA Mutations — When the Code Has a Typo
Science: Biodiversity — Why Variety Is the Planet's Life Insurance
Science: Extinction Events — When Life on Earth Nearly Ended
+ 26 more lessons...

7th Grade Reading

38 lessons available

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Description Seventh-grade reading comprehension tackling complex topics: the neuroscience of addiction, medical ethics, organ transplants, the a...

Sample Lessons:

Science: Nutrition and Athletic Performance — What Food Actually Does to Your Brain and Body
Science: Drugs, Alcohol, and the Brain — The Neuroscience of Addiction
Science: Organ Transplants and Blood Donation — How Medicine Saves Lives
Science: Medical Ethics — Who Decides When There Aren't Enough Organs?
Science: The Adolescent Brain Under Stress — How Cortisol and Adrenaline Shape Your Decisions
Science: Sleep Deprivation — What Happens When Teenagers Don't Sleep Enough
Science: Exercise Physiology — Why Movement Changes Your Brain Chemistry
Science: Mendelian Genetics — Dominant, Recessive, and Punnett Squares
Science: Natural Selection — How Evolution Actually Works
Science: Genetic Disorders — When DNA Makes Mistakes
Science: GMOs, Cloning, and Gene Editing — The Ethics of Changing Life
Science: Epigenetics — How Your Environment Changes Gene Expression
+ 26 more lessons...

8th Grade Reading

40 lessons available

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Description Eighth-grade reading comprehension with challenging nonfiction: epidemiology, forensic science, human reproduction, biomechanics, pa...

Sample Lessons:

Existential Questions — What's the Point? (And Why That's a Good Question)
Legacy Thinking — What Will You Leave Behind?
Science: Epidemiology — How Scientists Track and Stop Diseases
Science: Pandemics in History — From the Black Plague to COVID
Science: Human Reproduction — The Biology of How Life Begins
Science: Sports Science and Biomechanics — Why Athletes Train the Way They Do
Science: Forensic Science — How Evidence Solves Crimes
Science: The Microbiome — Trillions of Organisms Living Inside You
Science: Nutrition and Metabolism — How Your Body Converts Food to Energy
Science: DNA Replication — How Your Cells Copy the Code
Science: Protein Synthesis — From Gene to Protein
Science: Population Ecology — Carrying Capacity and Why Populations Crash
+ 28 more lessons...

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