PrimerPrep lets you quickly and easily perform the design steps of primer preparation.

PrimerPrep: Letter Sequence Optimization for Literacy Instruction

Are you looking to create an effective and engaging literacy primer for beginning readers?

PrimerPrep is the tool you need! It allows you to load text files in any language and instantly provides you with the optimal teaching order of letters and a list of example words for each lesson. PrimerPrep eliminates the guesswork, ensuring you can focus on helping your students succeed. It quickly analyzes your sample texts and performs all necessary calculations, offering a sequence that facilitates efficient learning. The software allows you to easily adjust the teaching order by simply dragging and dropping letters to meet your specific educational goals, and it verifies your lesson texts to make sure your students won’t come across any surprise untaught letters.

Because so many factors affect the best sequence for teaching letters, PrimerPrep provides numerous options for customizing your language configuration and exploring your data to fine-tune your results. Whether you need to exclude specific words, define word-forming characters or digraphs, or filter your example words by part of speech or syllable position, PrimerPrep is a versatile and indispensable tool for literacy educators. Experience the efficiency and customization of PrimerPrep today, and elevate your literacy instruction with SIL Global’s innovative tool.

Language Configuration

Fine-tune your language setup by defining word-building characters, digraphs, and affixes. Exclude specific elements from the analysis to tailor the results to your needs.

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Easy Reordering

Adjust the teaching order effortlessly with a simple drag-and-drop interface. All example words are recalculated in real-time to reflect the new order, making it easy to experiment with different sequences.

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PrimerPrep or Primer Pro?

Primer Pro pioneered advanced primer design, but PrimerPrep has grown to match much of that power in a simpler tool. With Primer Pro’s author retiring, PrimerPrep is now our recommended choice for primer design. Need a feature we’re missing? Just ask!

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Common questions

What is the best thing about using PrimerPrep?

If you have a text in the language, you can literally be investigating the best teaching order in the language within a couple of minutes! It really is that easy!

Can PrimerPrep test my primer texts?

Yes! You can enter your texts for each lesson, and PrimerPrep will highlight in red all untaught residue, i.e. letters which the student has not yet been taught.

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