Give your child a lasting educational advantage with proven-effective and fun reading software, the best on the market.

Rusty and Rosy Reading™ brings Waterford Institute’s reading software to the home where your child can experience personalized learning every day. Like a tutor, the program provides the instruction your child needs by monitoring her progress and adapting to her skill level. With enough content to last three full years, Rusty and Rosy Reading has been proven effective to teach your child in just 15 minutes a day.

*Created for children ages four through eight.

Rusty and Rosy Reading Benefits

• Personalized learning – Like a personal tutor, working one-on-one with your child, Rusty and Rosy Reading adapts to your child’s learning needs and provides the instruction necessary to help your child master each skill. As your child progresses through the program, the software provides extra support or challenges where needed, giving more practice or intense review in areas your child struggles and skipping over skills your child has mastered.
• Proven effective curriculum– The instruction is based on years of research, proven teaching principles, and the latest and most effective methods in curriculum design. Dozens of studies over nearly two decades have proven the software’s curriculum to help a wide range of children achieve academic success.
• Fun – Your child will travel through engaging stories and discover new ideas with Rusty, Rosy, and hundreds of other original characters. As your child learns concepts through songs—ranging from original compositions to classical works and songs from around the world—and progresses through the interactive activities, your child will have so much fun he will want to keep learning.
• Child-friendly atmosphere– Rusty and Rosy Reading is designed to put your child in the driver’s seat. With a child-oriented interface and simple controls, your child can easily log in and navigate the program independently.
• Parental control – You can easily monitor your child’s progress through the program so you can see where he is improving or where he needs help. Through the parent manager, you can access reports to see your child’s scores to date, or over the period of a week, month, or level. You can also adjust the curriculum, if needed, and find a variety of printable materials to enhance your child’s learning experience.
• Enriching content – Rusty and Rosy Reading is composed of a complete language arts curriculum to help your child become a fluent and confident reader. Your child will learn phonics, vocabulary, grammar, comprehension, and more through songs, pre-assessments, instruction, practice, books, and post assessments for each skill.
• Three full years of content – Rusty and Rosy Reading does not take an approach to learning that is quickly exhausted. The software is packed full of activities and learning concepts to last your child from preschool to second grade.

Rusty and Rosy Reading Contains

• 4,000+ activities that include assessments and practice to make sure your child understands the concepts taught.
• 175+ animated songs and videos that will have your child singing about learned concepts throughout the house.
• 240+ digital books that include storybooks, alphabet books, leveled readers, make-a-books, and biographies.
• Free Play Menu, a less-structured environment where activities and practice are unlocked as your child progresses through the program. The Free Play Menu allows your child to go back and explore her favorite activities while receiving more reading practice.
• Hundreds of printable materials that include worksheets, flashcards, games, and assessments, found in the Parent Manager, to help extend your child’s learning experience. Plus, you can print out certificates to celebrate your child’s learning successes.
• Progress reports that tell you how your child is progressing through the program so you can see areas where she is excelling and areas where she needs continued focus and improvement. Plus, the reports will recommend activities to extend learning beyond the computer.

System Requirements

• Windows® Vista, XP, or 7 operating system
• Macintosh® OSX® 10.4-10.6 operating system

*Rusty and Rosy Reading is not currently supported on Mac OS 10.8 or Windows 8.