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READING, SPELLING, and WRITING

Orton Gillingham / Multisensory Programs

Barton Reading and Spelling

The Barton Reading & Spelling System^® is a one-to-one tutoring system designed to improve the reading, writing, and spelling skills of children, teenagers, or adults who struggle due to dyslexia or another learning disability. Although the program is designed to be one-to-one, it may also be used in a small group setting, but each level will take longer to complete. The program is divided into ten levels, each with 10 to 15 lessons that cover the methods and sequence of teaching reading, spelling, and writing.

The Barton Reading & Spelling System^® was designed for students of any age who have, or are suspected of having, dyslexia. Program participants must speak and comprehend English at or above a second-grade level, have an IQ of 70 or higher, and be struggling with reading accuracy, fluency, spelling, or writing. The developer strongly recommends that students also be able to pass a basic screening which tests for significant deficits in auditory discrimination and/or auditory memory.Tutors must be able to pass a five-minute sound (phoneme) discrimination test.

Lindamood Bell LIPS program or Lindamood Bell Site

The Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing^® (LiPS^®) program (formerly called theAuditory Discrimination in Depth^® [ADD] program) is designed to teach students the skills they need to decode words and to identify individual sounds and blends in words. Initial activities engage students in discovering the lip, tongue, and mouth actions needed to produce specific sounds. After students are able to produce, label, and organize the sounds with their mouths, subsequent activities in sequencing, reading, and spelling use the oral aspects of sounds to identify and order them within words. The program also offers direct instruction in letter patterns, sight words, and context clues in reading. LiPS^® is designed for emergent readers in kindergarten through grade 3 or for struggling, dyslexic readers. The program is individualized to meet students’ needs and is often used with students who have learning disabilities or difficulties. The version of the program tested here involved computer-supported activities.

Lindamood Bell Seeing Stars

Seeing Stars outlines the reading program that improves the ability to perceive and create mental imagery for the individual sounds and letters within words.

This visual processing of sounds and symbols is known as symbol imagery, and in this manual, author Nanci Bell demonstrates how the development of symbol imagery can help students stabilize phonemic awareness, quickly recognize sight words, spell with correct orthographic patterns, and read fluently in context. Sample lessons and useful techniques are provided to help you guide students through the program.

Seeing Stars is one of the program manuals used in the professional development training and instructional services provided by Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes.

Phonetic Zoo (A-C)  from Institute for Excellence in Writing

Students place into programs based on spelling tests. This multisensory program uses audio CDs, music, picture cards, mnemonics or memory tricks, and learning spelling rules in 'animal families'.

Project Read

Project Read^® is a multisensory language arts curriculum designed for use in a classroom or group setting. Two main objectives of the program are to use language in all its forms, and to use responsive instruction rather than preplanned textbook lessons. The program emphasizes direct instruction, and lessons move from letter-sounds to words, sentences, and stories. Project Read^® has three strands: Phonics/Linguistics, Reading Comprehension, and Written Expression, which are integrated at all grade levels, though the emphasis of the specific strands differs by grade.

Reading Reflex

Reading Reflex is an exhaustive how-to guide for the reading instruction method they've developed called Phono-Graphix. Phonics and whole language take a beating here, with the authors accusing both methods of failing generations of would-be readers. Their approach, unabashedly touted as far superior, stresses the 43 sounds of the English language, treating letters as symbols of these sounds. Phono-Graphix teaches children to separate each phoneme in a word so that the phonemes can later be blended back in the right order. If this sounds familiar it's because the same method was heralded in 1997 in the well-publicized book Why Our Children Can't Read, by psychologist Diane McGuinness (Geoffrey's mother).

Slingerland Institute for Literacy

This structured, sequential, simultaneous, multisensory teaching approach is designed to help dyslexic students and other struggling readers with speaking, reading, writing and spelling. The flexibility of the approach has also made it effective in general education classrooms as well.

Wilson Reading System

The Wilson Reading System^® is a reading and writing program developed by Barbara Wilson and distributed by Wilson Language Training. It provides a curriculum for teaching reading and spelling to individuals of any age who have difficulty with written language. TheWilson Reading System^® directly teaches the structure of words in the English language, aiming to help students learn the coding system for reading and spelling. The program provides interactive lesson plans and uses a sequential system with extensive controlled text. TheWilson Reading System^® is structured to progress from phoneme segmentation to more challenging tasks, and seeks to improve sight word knowledge, fluency, vocabulary, oral expressive language development, and reading comprehension.

Zoo Phonics or ZooPhonics site
Zoo-phonics uses Animals in the shapes of lowercase letters before teaching the actual letters for easy remembering. It teaches the sounds of the letters through the animal names ("a" as in Allie Alligator, etc.), and letter sounds are taught before letter names.
Zoo-phonics teaches lowercase letters before capital letters. After all, reading materials are written 95% of the time in lowercase letters.The Zoo-phonics Body Signals allow children to put their natural "wiggles" to good use and act as a cue for memory.

 

Curriculum descriptions are either from the vendors pages, http://ies.ed.gov, Amazon.com