If a student has learned to read with another program, but is still not reading fluently, will PAL: Reading help?

That is a toughie. If the student is reading fairly well but not fluently, the All About Spelling will likely take them the rest of the way, so the PAL: Writing will probably suffice. If the student is only managing 3 letter words but gets stuck on anything longer, then the PAL: Reading would likely help.

My experience with my kids is they handled blending ok, but whenever they hit longer words, they really got flustered to figure it out. The PAL: Reading program spends a lot of time pointing out the phonograms as they occur in any word. Thus, a student learns to look for them. Oh! There are the squeally e’s! And there is that ough! The phonograms become their friends. Plus, they get most of the Doltch sight word list taught as sight words, so it improves reading fluency.

I am taking my older girls thru PAL while I teach my 6 year old Bethany (who is on the cover of Games, BTW). It will be a good review for them, and you need a partner for your child to play the games, so it is quite natural to take an older kid thru it. The poetry is good for all, and the lessons are very short, so they don’t take much time.