Woman reading a book to a child in a cozy living room.

JK-2 Parents

You gave them the love of books.

Now give them the science of reading.

Reading doesn’t just happen, it’s a complex code that must be mastered.

We use Lexia® to build decoding mastery, one brain at a time, in the JK-2 window.

Where is your child at?

Reading doesn’t just happen

Schools say “Wait and See.”
Science says Act Now.

Illustration of a brain being wired, representing the biological reality of learning to read.

Readers are built, not born

Speaking is natural, but reading is a complex code that must be neurologically wired so the code is 100% complete.
Hourglass containing a brain, symbolizing the time-sensitive SK to Grade 3 window for reading mastery.

The clock starts ticking in JK

The critical window for wiring the reading brain is JK to 2. Beyond grade 3, it becomes a different and harder problem.
The statistic 60% shattering, highlighting the systemic failure of standard reading instruction.

Don’t risk “Wait and See”

60% of kids never master reading*. The system leaves too many gaps for too many kids, even the smartest ones.

*Defined as NAEP Proficient

The proven way to lock in reading mastery

Lexia® Core5®

The leading teaching tool top schools use to build reading mastery for almost all kids. Most Ontario students don’t have access.

We’re bringing it home.

Mother and son smiling while using the Lexia Core5 reading program at home on a tablet

Just 15 min a day of focused independent learning

Originally developed through Johns Hopkins and Boston Children's Hospital, Lexia is the gold-standard professional teaching platform built on the science of reading.

Lexia meets each child where they are, adapting in real time so your child stays engaged. Never bored, stressed, or overwhelmed.

Meanwhile, the teacher watches the data to provide a personalized stream of support, motivation, and enrichment to solidify learning, or jump in with 1:1 instruction if they get stuck.

This data-rich system also provides real-time screening, so if a reading challenge is lurking, nothing finds it faster than Lexia. And early finds mean easier fixes.

Lexia can work for 95% of kids to build rock-solid reading foundations, with no unfinished learning and no gaps to widen. Usually kept behind school district walls, we are bringing it directly to families, under our expert supervision and guidance.

Lexia Core5 helped 3.7 million kids last year

Used in over

20,000

Progressive Schools

Highest Rated

ESSA
STRONG

By Leading Experts

Backed by

20 GOLD
STANDARD

Scientific Studies

The

#1
CHOICE

of SoR Experts

Vetted by the

right to
read

OHRC Report

The Expert Oversight

The program is Lexia®.

The breakthrough is Radical.

If Lexia is the rocketship,
Radical is your mission control

Lexia is a professional clinical tool designed to be guided by teachers and supervised by experts. We are those experts.

While your child is building skills, Lexia is sending us data — and we're responding step by step with the exact resources and motivations they need to keep up their momentum. And if they get stuck, we unstick them with a Radical Boost.

While teachers manage a crowded room, your child's Lexia success is our only focus.
Lark Barker, Clinical Director of Radical Reading, emphasizing fidelity in education.

Radical fidelity, Radical results

In education, fidelity is the ability to deliver a program the way it was intended. I founded Radical Reading to give parents a way to bypass the uneven results of the school system. We took the leading clinical-grade tool and designed a home-based system for fidelity and success. We don't hope for progress; we engineer it. That’s Radical.

— Lark Barker, Education Director
Radical Reading Brain logo flashing the four different track colors - blue, green, wello and red.

Where is your child at ?

Let’s get wiring that reading brain

Product Card for Ignite early reading program for JK SK and grade 1. Text reads: Starting out in Jk-SK. Light up their reading brain at the ideal age. Launch with confidence. Powered by Lexia Core5.

A blank slate is the perfect start. Don't leave it to chance. Install the correct neural wiring from Day 1 for a powerful head start.

Surge Track Card with a green rocket graphic and text about going beyond meeting expectations and maximizing trajectory, powered by Lexia Core5 for kids in grades 1 to 3.

Don't just learn to read. Wire their brain for high-speed automaticity so they can surge ahead toward their full potential.

Bridge Track Card with a yellow bridge graphic and text about bridging reading gaps so they can recover from a bumbpy start and surge ahead. Powered by Lexia Core5 for kids in grades 1 to 3.

Something feels harder than it should. We'll find the gaps in the data, close them fast, and get them surging.

REWIRE Track Card with a red life preserver graphic and text about rewiring kids who are isntructional casualties. For kids in grades 2 to 4.

If reading means tears, avoidance or exhaustion, they need a rescue. Let's assess what's going on to build the right program.

Not sure which is right for your child? Ask Lark.

Lark Barker speaking at the podium for the Ontario Human Rights Commission Right to Read Inquiry.

Radical for a reason

Lark helped define the Right to Read for all Ontario.

Now she delivers it for you.

Lark Barker is our Director of Education. She has been a driving force behind Ontario’s landmark Right to Read movement, dedicating years to exposing the gaps in public education and helping rewrite the curriculum to fix them.

But she’s learned a hard reality:
System change takes years. Childhood happens now.

Lark built Radical Reading to bridge this gap, to provide the immediate, individualized clinical precision that school systems still struggle to deliver at scale.

About Us
Infographic showing the compound interest of early reading success versus the silent squandering of hitting the 4th grade wall.
A simple stylized brain image over the text: The Mission, symbolizing our mission of wiring young brains for reading

It starts with words, but it ends with the world.

Strong early reading lifts the trajectory of a life. But too many kids never build the foundation to reach their potential. As an educator, advocate and parent, I knew I needed to do something about the silent squandering.

The Mission

What we believe

Confidence is engineered

Real confidence comes from mastery, not praise. Build the skill and the feeling follows naturally.
Young girl reading a book with a happy expression in a cozy living room representing a happy accomplished young reader.

Readers are built, not born

Reading isn't magic; it’s encoding. We engineer the neural pathways explicitly, layer by layer.
Young boy wearing headphones, representing 'The Coaster' who relies on memorization rather than true reading decoding.

Action over waiting

Science tells us the best time to start training the reading brain is JK-SK. The second best time is now.

Mastery changes everything

Literacy is compound interest. By wiring the brain for mastery now, we unlock potential for a lifetime.

You wouldn’t expect your child to master piano like this.

Why risk it with reading?

Some skills are too complex to master in a crowd. Piano is one of them. So is reading.

The evidence is clear

Don’t leave it to “Wait and See”

The best time to start wiring a reading brain is JK.
The second-best time to start is NOW.

Choose your track

Articles from The Radical Reading Insider

Illustration of the Silent Slide showing the widening gap between structured literacy and guessing habits.

The Silent Slide: Why Early Reading Struggles Often Go Unnoticed (Until It's Too Late)

By Lark Barker, Director of Education, Radical Reading Co. There is a terrifying phenomenon in education that most parents don't see until it’s too late. I call it The Silent...