Totally Literate
A Worldwide English Literacy Program
TRWRR
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"The World is a Jungle to the unread!"
The Red Well-Read Reader
TRWRR is Totally Literate's flagship product. It consists of 361 humorous, pithy stories. Generally, each one has a single predominate rhyme.
The book starts off with stories having the short "a" sound. To illustrate, Story 1 has a preponderance of words ending with "ab," such as cab, lab, and nab. And Story 2 has a preponderance of words ending in "ack" or "ac," such as back, rack, and sacroiliac. There are twenty such groups in all. Systematically, they cover the entire phonological and phonemic makeup of the English language.
Introduction
TRWRR isn’t just a Flipbook — it’s a complete reading course.
Designed for guided use in a classroom or at home, it not only teaches students to read but also encourages independent, critical thinking. Its affordability makes it a practical choice for families on a budget, and it’s exclusively included in our most accessible option, the Opal Membership.
Unique Features:
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Appeals to everyone, to parents as much as to children.
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Some stories, in part, challenge even the most precocious students.
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On one hand, fast learners never get bored because the content is always challenging, whereas, on the other hand, slow learners never feel overwhelmed and quit trying to learn all-together because decoding remains constant throughout the book's entirety.
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Each student benefits according to his or her effort, age, and God-given ability.
TRWRR
"TRWRR Flipbook presents this course in an interactive format, with 361 stories, hundreds of phonics charts, spelling rules, and over 1,500 interconnected links. Designed for guided or independent use, it makes literacy systematic, joyful, and accessible."
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Other Forms
Each Form, Fun and Efficacious in its own right!
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TRWRR is broken down into nine Mini Flipbooks. In general, each book contains 40 stories. Each one has many links, providing a lot of fun navigating from story to story to Table of Contents. And the soothing classical music that plays between the narrated stories makes for an enjoyable experience.
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TRWRR stories are available as Adobe PDFs in English and in paired English–Spanish editions. The Spanish translations are created by human translators who understand the tone, humor, and subtle turns of meaning that give these stories their character. With both languages side by side, bilingual readers can follow along naturally and compare the two as they read. Over the next two years, Totally Literate will release human translations in the remaining twelve flag languages.
This has two benefits. First, more students can view their own language side by side with English. Second, it gives every student the option to study one or more foreign languages as they work through the stories.
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TRWRR Narrated Flipbook consists solely of TRWRR's rhyming stories with Spanish transcriptions shown side-by-side one another on opposite pages. The stories are the same as those in the Mini Flipbooks. In essence, all the stories are in one place, making access to them all quite easy. Though unlinked, they do have navigational tools and thumbnails. This document is particularly helpful to Spanish speakers learning English.
Comprehension Check
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Perhaps most helpful to mature students, especially foreign speakers, are TRWRR stories as Multilinguals. Multilinguals can be read aloud in scores of languages by Text-To-Speech "spokespersons" who are fluent in whichever language chosen, so to speak. What's more, every line of these stories is highlighted in one color while each word contrasted in another color as it is read aloud. So that students can concentrate without distraction, the stories do not contain illustrations.
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Whichever form of TRWRR is used, educators and parents can check their students' understanding of the stories by referring to the Philosophy Primer and Comprehension Check. As the name indicates, this flipbook is additionally a comprehension check, a tool to discuss moral, social, and ethical issues that many stories present.