Free guide for parents of K–5th graders
The 5-Day Reading Discovery Challenge
5 days. 5 activities. Zero assigned reading.
For parents who want their kids to love reading but are tired of the daily battle.
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What if the problem isn't that your kid can't read?
Most struggling readers I work with are missing a piece: a sound or a pattern that was never taught clearly enough, and then never practiced enough. By the time I meet them, reading has also become the thing they do when someone makes them. It feels like work. It feels like proof that something is wrong with them. Both parts matter, and the second one is what this challenge is for.
This challenge changes that. Over 5 days, your child will explore, build, create, and teach. Reading will happen naturally along the way, not because you assigned it, but because the activity needed it.
What's Inside
Day 1
The Detective
Your kid picks something they love and digs in. Sports stats, game walkthroughs, animal facts. They choose.
Day 2
The Explorer
Take reading off the couch. Signs, menus, trail markers, store shelves. Reading is everywhere once you look.
Day 3
The Builder
Follow instructions to make something real. Recipes, paper airplanes, LEGO builds. Reading with a purpose.
Day 4
The Creator
Your kid puts their own words into the world. Game rules, reviews, comics, stories. No spelling corrections allowed.
Day 5
The Guide
They teach someone else what they discovered. When a kid teaches, they own the knowledge.
By Day 5, You'll Know Something Important
What they actually care about. Not what you think they should read. What they'll willingly read.
Which reading skills feel solid, and which still trip them up. Five days of low-pressure reading makes it much easier to see.
How to make reading time easier to start. When reading has a purpose your child chose, it feels less like a test, and practice gets easier to start.
Hi, I'm Candace.
I'm a K-5 reading specialist in Bozeman, Montana, and I run The Discovery Reading Club. I work with K-5th graders who struggle with reading using Orton-Gillingham structured literacy methods.
I built this challenge because I kept hearing the same thing from parents: “I can't get my kid to read.” And every time, the fix started with the same question: what does your kid actually want to read about?
This guide helps you answer that question in 5 days. No pressure, no timers, no assigned reading. Just activities that make reading feel like what it's supposed to be: interesting.
Ready to try something different?
The challenge is free. Spend as much or as little time as you like (10 minutes a day works great). And your kid might actually have fun.