Hello!  My name is Madreen Karle.  I am a retired school teacher.  I taught first grade for 30 years.   After retiring from teaching,  I developed a reading program, phonics program, and alphabet that make learning to read easy and fun.  

My daughter, Meeghan Mousaw, has her Masters in Special Education.  She used my program to teach her daughter to read and she was was amazed by the possibilities.  She helped me bring the program to life.  

We both want to reach as many children as possible to help them learn to read.

With your help and support, we can continue to keep our website up and running.   Together we can continue to help children learn to read and help struggling readers gain confidence with reading.  

Mrs. Karle’s Sight and Sound Reading Program™  teaches children to read for free.  

At its heart, it is a blog and youtube channel.  Through the free videos and worksheets, students learn reading, phonics, spelling, punctuation and comprehension.  

Mrs. Karle’s Sight and Sound Reading Program™ explicitly and creatively teaches the 250 basic sight words -the words found in 80% of what children read.  

Mrs. Karle’s Sight and Sound Reading Program™ can be used with a beginning reader or to help a struggling reader.

Mrs. Karle’s Sight and Sound Reading Program™  explicitly teaches and tutors children to read.  It shows parents they can help their child achieve reading success.

Teachers love the program because it is so easy to teach. Parents love the program because it is so easy to 'share'. Children love the program because it is so easy to learn.

Please check out our great reviews from moms, teachers, and homeschool websites!  

What We Need & What You Get

We are asking for the bare minimum of what we need to keep Sight and Sound Reading up and running.  Here is a breakdown of how the $1500 will be spent

In reality we are spending much more than $1500 to run Sight and Sound Reading.  We have not included cost to advertise in any way, among other expenses.  Here is a breakdown of additional expenses.  

Also, here is what we spent to get the site up and running:

To date this year (2014) we have made about $600 in advertising and product sales.  We see about 150 visitors each day to the site.  We have about a 40% return rate in people who visit the site.  Our numbers have grown steadily as we continue to advertise.    

We believe in Sight and Sound Reading and believe one day our advertising and product sales will be able to sustain the site.  Your donation will show us that you believe in us and that we should continue striving to reach more children.   

$1 - We will send you a digital copy of our I See Sight Word Book and a digital copy of our Big Train Sight Word book.  Children can read these books at day 10 and day 20 of our program.

  I See Sight Word Book

    Big Train Sight Word Book

$5 - We will send you a digital copy of all of our sight word books.  We currently have 8 sight word books.  

  Sight Word Book Bundle

$10 -We will send you a digital copy of all of our sight word books, as well as our phonics workbook.  Children can watch Mrs. Karle and follow along with their workbook.  Children learn phonics, spelling, reading, writing, and sentence formation.  

  Sight Word Book Bundle

 Phonics Workbook

$20 - We will send you all of the above and a digital copy of Mrs. Karle's innovative alphabet.  Her alphabet easily teaches upper and lower case letters, and confusing letter fonts.

 Sight Word Book Bundle

 Phonics Workbook

 Alphabet Book

$25  - We will send you everything we currently have in our store!  Addiitonally, each time we add products, we will send you the new product.  We constantly are creating new products, adding them to our bundle, and increasing the price of the bundle.  Those who purchase our product early are rewarded!  

  Everything in our Store!  

$30 - You get everything above, and we will work to reach children who most need our program.  We want to share and give our program to children who cannot afford reading help.

$50 - All of the above and we get to advertise your product on our site for one month!

$100 - We will send you a printed copy of all of our printed materials (currently available through amazon).  

The Impact

We are a for-profit business, but we believe we can make a difference and make a profit by offering much of our products for free.  

According to the National Assessment for Educational Progress, 67% of fourth graders were at or below reading proficiency.  The percentage is the same for eighth grade students.  If children do not learn to proficiently read by fourth grade, they are not likely to improve.  WE MUST DO SOMETHING TO HELP CHILDREN LEARN TO READ.  

Your donation and support make it possible for Mrs. Karle's Sight and Sound Reading™ to keep up and running. Our budget needs a boost in order for us to stay online!

Risks & Challenges

We recognize we are a little fish in a big sea of many competitors.  From traditional publishing companies to websites and apps that claim to teach reading.  We have searched and we are unable to find a site that explicitly teaches children to read for free through direct one on one video instruction.  We have found that children love to watch Mrs. Karle teach reading.  We also have parents who love to come to learn how to teach reading.  Through hard work, we have watched our search engine rankings climb and we find ourselves on first and second page Google for many search terms.  We will keep working hard to climb the rankings to help us gain exposure.  Any extra funds raised will go to a marketing effort to help us continue help customers find us.

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