Our Story
As a mother of four boys and a reading specialist with over twenty years of literacy teaching experience, Amy Buswell, President of Edu-Crew, is determined to change the lives of struggling readers. Learning to read is life-changing, and those who need a hands-on approach to learning have limited resources to choose from, until now. Our goal is to improve the literacy rate, world-wide, by providing a tool teachers, parents, and children can use to greatly improve their reading ability and fluency.
Edu-Crew also understands how challenging it can be to teach children to love reading who have decided it's too difficult, or boring. That's a big reason why she developed Turn-a-Word. -To help make learning to read simple and enjoyable!
About Turn-a-Word
By simply connecting two pieces, and turning the left piece around, a child can create multiple words within the same word family. With twenty sets of Turn-a-Words per package, children will have fun making hundreds of high frequency words from the most common word families, while dramatically improving their fluency and reading ability.
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*Image above for display purposes. Actual Product will contain 40 unique pieces.
Improve:
- Blending
- Segmenting
- Rhyming
- Decoding
- Word Recognition
- Fluency
Features:
- Includes 20 sets (40 pieces) of the most common word families
- Lightweight
- Durable
- Stackable (for easy storage)
- Appealing to the sense of touch
- Perfectly-sized for smaller hands
- Color coded for easy pairing
- Can be mix-matched for making additional/non-sense words
Ideal for:
- Beginning readers of all ages
- English language learners
- Tactile/kinesthetic learners
- Exceptional Education/ Special Needs students
Our Goal
To reach our campaign goal, we need to raise $80,000. to produce and deliver 1,000 sets of Turn-a-Word. Funding will be used as follows:
- Engineering/product refinement: $5,000
- Tooling: $10,000
- Manufacturing: $50,000
- Kitting: $6,000
- Fulfillment: $3,500
- Fees: $5,000
Proudly Made in the USA
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