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Online Training - Cost (5)
No, sorry. The training and materials form one package.
If you have lost your materials, please see the replacements section on TRT-Two.
That Reading Thing is already heavily discounted. By putting the training online, it now costs considerable less than it did 10 years ago. There are no extra materials or licences to purchase, so it is affordable even if you have only one student who needs it.
However, there is a discount for booking 10 or more trainings on the same invoice.
Get in touch for more information.
UK schools, colleges and organisations can pay by purchase order.
Please contact us to request an order form.
Please get in touch to request a brochure and a registration form and order TRT for as many staff as you wish. When thinking about how many to train, consider who has the capacity to work one-to-one and who will have an affinity with both the ethos of TRT and the sound-to-print phonics approach. Ask for more information if you’re not sure what that means.
You can now choose a combination on-site/online training which includes one full day of TRT training at your chosen location for an introduction to the programme. Everyone gets a code to access the online videos to complete the training which will take them an extra 3 – 4 hours. There is a surcharge for this option and a minimum number of trainees. Travel and accommodation are also charged. Let’s chat about whether it would be the best option for your staff.
Online Training - General (4)
You get the same content that’s included in the 2 full days of training and all the materials necessary for working one-to-one with an unlimited number of students. All you’ll have to add is reading material.
No – you really can’t. Please plan to put aside at least 2 full days or 4 twilight sessions for training. There’s far too much new information to take in in one sitting and there are activities that you may want to take a little time over. On the other hand, try to start working with your first student before your 7 weeks are up so you can delve back into the videos if you want.
The course contains the information that you’d get over 2 days in a face to face training and we recommend taking 7-8 hours to complete it. There is a lot to take in but don’t feel you have to have everything perfectly committed to memory. You’ve got all the information in your manual plus the reminder clips over on trt-two.com.
To get the most out of your time, I suggest going through the videos in a maximum of 3 weeks then jump right in with a student. You’ve then got 4 weeks to go back and review bits you want to see again.
If you have colleagues who are interested, do the training together. It’s great to have the support.
Please get in touch to request a brochure and a registration form and order TRT for as many staff as you wish. When thinking about how many to train, consider who has the capacity to work one-to-one and who will have an affinity with both the ethos of TRT and the sound-to-print phonics approach. Ask for more information if you’re not sure what that means.
You can now choose a combination on-site/online training which includes one full day of TRT training at your chosen location for an introduction to the programme. Everyone gets a code to access the online videos to complete the training which will take them an extra 3 – 4 hours. There is a surcharge for this option and a minimum number of trainees. Travel and accommodation are also charged. Let’s chat about whether it would be the best option for your staff.
That Reading Thing -General (4)
We recommend 45 minutes to an 1 hour per week for 1-to-1. It’s possible to do 30 minute lessons but we recommend two per week if you can manage it. Lessons shorter than 30 minutes probably won’t lead to the success noted in our evaluation. Get in touch if you want to discuss this, or anything else, further.
No. A person who has a learning difficulty can get to Level 30 and still be reading quite slowly. Another person, who maybe just missed learning to read, can be quite fluent by Level 30.
TRT works best as an intervention if the learner has reasonable spoken English but struggles to read and spell.
Get in touch if you would like to discuss this further. Every setting is different!
TRT-Two Access (1)
Go to TRT-Two and fill in the code request form. We’ll send you a code to register at the site.
Who is That Reading Thing For? (6)
In the UK we say that the minimum age is 11 or Year 6 – and only as a preparation for high school. I’d ask other countries to consider how it could best be used to get young people ready for high school and would say 6th or 7th grade as the lower age range. The key thing is that we want to protect the “teen” brand for the sake of our older learners. I wouldn’t want any 15 year old finding out that their 9 year old sister was getting the same help. Our learners have had enough humiliation and TRT is too mature for younger children
TRT works best as an intervention if the learner has reasonable spoken English but struggles to read and spell.
Get in touch if you would like to discuss this further. Every setting is different!
There are Pre-TRT Levels available for those learners who are starting from the very basics. The resources will be available on the support site when you’ve registered for the full training.
No. There are extra materials for standard North American English too. If you have a different accent, you can make changes as you go. It’s very flexible. The beauty of online student materials is that I can edit and create culture specific lists and stories if you get in touch with changes you would like to see.
TRT was written for largely white working class boys in the North of England and some of the names and language reflect that. Now that we’re working all around the English speaking world, I expect the sound stories to be missing the mark with some students! Please drop me an email with your ideas and I’ll come up with something to put in the materials section on trt-two.
