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The English Club introduces each letter: how it sounds, how it looks, how to write it and how to combine it with other letters to form words. The most common letters and combinations are learned first (the widely accepted “satpin” order). The multi-sensory approach uses all senses – touch, sight, hearing and speaking- to reinforce learning through all possible channels to the brain.

A story for each level contains only words the reader can read, using the tools that have been taught so far. The stories are built around the most common English words that use the new letter and rules, plus all that have been taught to this point. Built-in review and practice helps to move the learned material from short term to long term memory, encouraging reading fluency and freeing the learner to focus on meaning.

The English Club™ draws on established phonics-based methods (such as Hickey and Orton-Gillingham) while focusing on the most frequently-used English words. Important sight words (such as "said" – which is not spelled the way it sounds) and meaning are also included. This systematic approach builds confidence for all emergent readers, both native English speakers and learners of English as a foreign or second language (EFL and ESL).

The excitement and triumph that a new reader feels, being able to read a whole English story, is the payoff that motivates learners to forge ahead to learn more and more new letters, words, and rules, until eventually, they are equipped to read texts that contain all the English letters and combinations.

This method has been proven successful – even for learners with special needs (dyslexia, weak memory, and other language-learning challenges).