About Reading Horizons

Our Company

For over 25 years, Reading Horizons has been revolutionizing the way people learn to read. Since 1984, Reading Horizons has developed and distributed software and teaching materials based on Charlotte Lockhart’s effective method, Discover Intensive Phonics for Yourself. This proven method has effectively taught students of all ages how to read with its interactive, stepwise, phonics-based approach. Beginning readers, students with learning disabilities, non-reading adults, and ESL students have all found reading success with Reading Horizons. Today, we continue to develop and improve upon the materials that make Charlotte Lockhart’s method increasingly assessable to students of all ages.

Watch this video to see how Reading Horizons employees feel about their company’s purpose:

Our Leadership

Why are you passionate about working for Reading Horizons?

My motives for working here are entirely selfish…I love the feeling that I get when I talk to a teacher who says “I can’t believe I didn’t know this, I’m so excited to put it to use”, I love hearing about students who have a new found love of literature and whose grades have gone from C’s and D’s to A’s and B’s, I love the feeling I get working here with committed individuals who make me want to stretch myself to meet their standard, I love coming to work and feeling like we are doing something great and were doing it the right way. So as you can see, it’s all about me - Wow, that even rhymes.

- Company President, Tyson Smith

I am making a difference in the lives of those we serve. I have personally seen the difference it makes in the life of a child who has always had problems reading so I know what we do works. I also love talking with people about what we do because I see that they recognize the method and product as being unique and that the systematic instruction would work with beginning and struggling readers. I also love working with the people here. They help me be a better person and to stretch myself to be even better.

- Office Manager, Alisha Thomas

I wanted to do something in my career that was meaningful and had a lasting impact and Reading Horizons gives me that opportunity. I cannot wait to tell people where I work and what we do. We teach kids and adults how to read, we change lives. As the Chinese proverb says: "read me a book today and improve my day; teach me how to read and change my life."



- IT Director, Chad Wilson

I am passionate about working for Reading Horizons because I have the privilege of witnessing individuals’ lives change for the better. I wake up in the morning feeling that I am making a difference, as small as my contributions may be. When the demanding nature of curriculum writing sets in, the end users come to mind—those who I’m serving. I have witnessed the needs of these users being filled through my meager efforts. It makes me want to try even harder to "produce excellent-quality curriculum that fills expanding needs," as the Reading Horizons Curriculum Department mantra states.

- Curriculum Manager, Heidi Hyte

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