This motivational ladder becomes a valuable, visual reference to show a student the progress they are making in their very first steps toward fluent reading. Starting with handwriting instruction using clock points and page points, students learn how to make well defined letters. They learn the sounds those letters or combination of letters actually make. They begin to analyze words learning how to spell them and use them in simple sentences. When they know only 34 words, they are given Reading Works Primer A and watch them read! The ladder is refrigerator-mountable and a little character we call Syntax moves up the ladder as each step is accomplished.