Happy Cheetah is engaging and fun for students with multi-sensory learning, practical workbook-based lessons, readers with colorful, cheerful illustrations, and games/activities for fun and reinforcement. Happy Cheetah calms parents (no prep time; just follow the lessons written simply for each day). Born out of educational training and years of classroom, homeschooling, and tutoring experience, Dr. Karen (author of Spelling You See) has created a developmental reading program that is winsome, thorough, easy to use, and effective. A complete language arts program, Happy Cheetah includes phonics, handwriting, capitalization and punctuation, spelling, reading comprehension, and creative expression. The Complete Reading System includes everything you need: five workbooks, 12 readers, various pamphlets and brochures, magnetic dry-erase board, a-b-c-d cards, dry-erase markers, dry-erase alphabet tracing cards (4" x 5½"), magnetic letters, card game sets 1, 2, & 3 (2" x 3½" cards), post-it labeling and coverup tape, pencil grip, mini-colored pencils, and special bonus, EASY button.
Happy Cheetah Complete Reading System
Description
Everything you need to teach your child to read in 20 minutes a day!
Fast. Effective. Easy. Fun.
Your children will learn to read—guaranteed! Whether your child is brand new to reading or has persevered for several years already, your child can achieve reading success.
With stories as the foundation of Happy Cheetah Reading, your student learns the individual details of reading, such as proper spelling and grammatical cues like quotation marks, in the context of the story. Each smaller element is already included in the big picture. Nothing is out of order; everything is linked.
These links rapidly build knowledge, without confusion. Like looking at the box before assembling a puzzle—there's a framework in place.
Happy Cheetah combines the big picture with the smaller details in order to teach reading ... simply, easily, and quickly.
WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THE HAPPY CHEETAH READING PROGRAM?
- Level 1 Package:
- Level 2 Package:
- Level 3 Package:
- Level 4 Package:
- Alphabet Tracing Cards, Dr. Karen's Preferred Pencil Grip for Perfect Practice, Dr. Karen's Constant Encouragement Button, Post-It Covering Tape, ABCD Bookmarks
- Level 1:
- Learn to write all capital and lowercase letters quickly and easily. Copy short sentences, like: "My fish is orange." Identify which sounds go with which letters. Accurately write short words, such as "lag," "mug," and "fed." Properly write his or her name, starting with a capital and using lowercase letters. Read dozens of non-phonetic words, such as water, towel, polka-dot, look, boat, yellow, shells, and find. Identify vowels and vowel chunks (two vowels together, as in raccoon), the start of spelling instruction. Work with basic grammar and punctuation. Practice the intuitive reading methods that all successful readers use. Sound out and write high-frequency words easily and quickly, using lowercase letters.
- Level 2:
- Grow vocabulary. Learn to read a wide range of challenging words, such as pizza, elephant, bubbles, sweet, and books. Continue to work on identifying vowels and vowel chunks, moving towards proper spelling. Continue working with basic grammar and punctuation. Continue to practice the intuitive reading methods that all successful readers use. Sound out and write additional high-frequency words easily and quickly, using lowercase letters.
- Level 3:
- Gain additional new vocabulary. Learn to read a wide range of challenging words, such as camouflage, museums, weigh, lantern, social, and tongue. Continue to work on identifying vowels and vowel chunks, developing the visual memory necessary for proper spelling. Continue working with basic grammar and punctuation. Continue to practice the intuitive reading methods that all successful readers use. Sound out and write additional high-frequency words easily and quickly, using lowercase letters.
- Level 4:
- Gain a lot of additional new vocabulary. Read both nonfiction and fiction. Focus on vowel chunks, Bossy-R in words, and suffixes, in order to develop the visual memory necessary for proper spelling. Continue working with basic grammar and punctuation. Continue to practice the intuitive reading methods that all successful readers use. Sound out and write additional high-frequency words easily and quickly, using lowercase letters.
- Includes 5 levels of workbooks to cover handwriting, phonemic awareness, vowel sounds, sight words, spelling, capitalization, and reinforcement of reading skills. Included in each workbooks are simple lesson plans to help teach your child to read backed by years of academic research used in classrooms, homeschools and clinical practices.
- Build your book library with 5 levels of twelve readers that include over 120 stories to go along with your child on their reading journey.
- Learning to read can be fun with games, activities, and projects to reinforce and retain reading skills. A Happy Cheetah exclusive, there are three sets of game cards. Play one of four games to help reinforce the words your children already know. Keep learning upbeat and fun!
Get Ready Workbook, Cub Starting Workbook, Readers Set: My Family, Nana and Papa, and Things I Like, Game Card Set, Dry Erase Markers, Happy Cheetah Exclusive: Clear Letter Writing Whiteboard, Happy Cheetah Exclusive: Magic Key Magnetic Letters and Alphabet Cards
Cub Walking Workbook, Readers Set: My Day and We Have Fun
Cub Running Workbook, Readers Set: Home and Farm Animals, Bugs and Small Animals, Land and Sea Animals and Zoo Animals
Cheetah Ready Workbook, Readers Set: Birds and Jobs, Fairy Tales Retold Part 1, and Fairy Tales Retold Part II, Set of small colored pencils
Additional Items:
WHAT WILL YOUR STUDENT LEARN IN EACH LEVEL?
If your student is still working on writing capital and lowercase letters easily—or if your student hasn't started writing yet!—start here. As you transition from the Get Ready Workbook to the Cub Starting Workbook, beginning readers will learn more about writing. Students read thirty simple stories with this workbook. This builds confidence, as they enjoy immediate success.
In this level, your student will:
With Level 2, students build on what they already know. It is an excellent level to continue to grow reading confidence and fluency.
In this level, your student will:
With Level 3, students rapidly expand on what they already know. As students read longer passages, they continue to grow reading confidence and fluency.
In this level, your student will:
With Level 4, the rate of improvement skyrockets. As students read ever longer passages—with several short paragraphs per page—they continue to grow reading confidence and fluency.
In this level, your student will:
ABOUT HAPPY CHEETAH READING WORKBOOKS:
ABOUT HAPPY CHEETAH READING READERS:
ABOUT HAPPY CHEETAH READING GAMES & ACTIVITIES:
The Happy Cheetah Reading System is a gentle, multisensory K-2 phonics program designed to help children learn to read successfully, even if they have struggled in the past. Created by Dr. Karen Holinga, the author of this complete program uses the "Three C's" of successful reading: Context (stories), Copywork (tracing and writing), and Calmness (short, relaxed lessons that build confidence).
Students begin reading real stories from the very first
lesson while learning phonics in a natural, logical way. The program combines
reading practice, word building with magnetic letters, dry-erase activities,
games, and consistent copywork to create an enjoyable and effective learning
experience.
Key Curriculum Features:
- Short 15-20 minute engaging lessons
- Stories that are interesting and controlled for early success
- Built-in handwriting practice (both D’Nealian and Traditional styles)
- Multisensory activities including magnetic letters, drawing, and games
- Carefully sequenced progression from beginning sounds to chunking and fluency
Program Structure:
Happy Cheetah includes four color-coded workbooks and corresponding small, colorful readers:
- Orange (Cub Starting): Early phonics and beginning reading
- Red (Cub Walking): Strengthening skills
- Blue (Cub Running): Building fluency
- Green (Cheetah Ready): Advanced skills with chunking
Program Components:
- Full-color Student Workbooks
- 12 Small, engaging Readers
- Teacher instructions printed directly in the Student Workbooks
- Magnetic letters, game cards, dry-erase board, and other hands-on tools (included in the Complete Packages and Grade Level Packages)
Happy Cheetah Reading is an excellent choice for homeschool families who want a low-pressure, highly effective phonics and reading program that emphasizes success, confidence, and enjoyment. It works particularly well for beginning readers, reluctant readers, and children with learning challenges. After completing Happy Cheetah, students should be reading at a 3rd grade reading level.
| Product Format: | Other |
|---|---|
| Grades: | K-2 |
| Brand: | Happy Cheetah |
| EAN/UPC: | 738435650834 |
| Length in Inches: | 13.5 |
| Width in Inches: | 9.625 |
| Height in Inches: | 6.375 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 16.4 |
