Phonics is a crucial first step in attaining top-level literacy skills – However, as the chart below shows, even though most schools now employ phonics based reading programs there has been little improvement in overall reading proficiency.

Once students learn to phonetically decode printed text they need something more. They need to know what words mean. They need a robust, well-defined vocabulary to read, write and speak effectively and persuasively.

Verbocity is the link between phonics and literacy.

Our comprehensive, personalized, vocabulary program and literacy developer includes the following one of a kind features.

High Retention – Each student’s performance is tracked and becomes the basis for the amount and timing of future reinforcement exercises. The result is near perfect retention.

Total Vocabulary – We spent years analyzing millions of words of text to identify the most used and useful words. Emerging readers learn 99+% of the words they will encounter in writing or speech.

Reading – Verbocity has over 75,000 hand selected example sentences of every kind. Reading all the example sentences is equivalent to reading over 14 novels.

Writing – As students advance through the program they are required to submit their own sentence for each Target Word studied. This active learning methodology promotes deeper understanding of the word and helps teachers monitor grammar, punctuation, spelling etc. Verbocity students who complete the program get the equivalent practice of practice of writing 2 novels.