This document describes a reading improvement technique called SITDOWN (Simultaneous Individualized Teacher Directed with students correcting their OWN). Key points: - SITDOWN involves giving all students spelling tests and dictating sentences at the same time, but at individualized levels of difficulty tailored to each student's abilities. - Students correct their own mistakes immediately to learn from them. - Focusing on word families and patterns helps students improve reading and spelling. - Varying the difficulty of the same sentences allows all students to participate while still challenging them at their own level. - Early results found SITDOWN improved students' spelling and reading of tricky words like "your" and "