Specialized Education Methods

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Reading Programs Information

Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read, Kindergarten through Grade 3

The Partnership for Reading: National Institute for Literacy; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; and U.S. Department of Education, have a easy to read booklet you can read on-line, print out or order a copy:

To view this publication on-line, click here PDF format or click here to view Webpage HTML format.

This booklet summarizes for teachers what researchers have discovered about how to teach children to read successfully. It describes the findings of the National Reading Panel Report and provides analysis and discussion in five areas of reading instruction: phonemic awareness; phonics; fluency; vocabulary; and text comprehension. Each section suggests implications for classroom instruction as well as other information.

For information about systematic explicit systemic phonics reading methods, please see below:

Orton-Gillingham (OG)

The Orton-Gillingham approach is language-based, multisensory, structured, sequential, cumulative, cognitive, and flexible. Its breadth, perspective, and flexibility prompt use of the term approach instead of method. The Orton-Gillingham approach is appropriate for teaching individuals, small groups, and classrooms. (See the Academy website for more information.)

The Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators PO Box 234 Amenia, New York 12501-0234 Telephone: Fax: E-Mail info@... www.ortonacademy.org

Project Read©/Language Circle©

Project Read©/Language Circle© is a research based mainstream language arts program for students who need a systematic learning experience with direct teaching of concepts and skills through multisensory techniques. Project Read© has five curriculum strands: 1. Phonology, 2. Linguistics, 3. Reading Comprehension – Report Form, 4. ·Reading Comprehension – Story Form, 5. Written Expression. (See the Project Read website for more information.)

P.O. Box 20631 Bloomington, MN 55420 www.projectread.com

Language Training Corporation

The Reading System is a research-based reading program. It is a complete curriculum for teaching decoding and encoding (spelling) beginning with phoneme segmentation. The program has twelve steps. Steps One and Two emphasize phonemic segmentation skills (the ability to separate the sounds in a word) and blending the sounds together again. (See the website for more information.)

Reading Fundations™ (Based on Orton-Gillingham (OG) method) 175 West Main Street Millbury, MA 01527 www.Language.com

Fast ForWord The Fast ForWord Family of Programs™ Has a computer based training programs to improve language skills for students with language-learning disabilities. www.fastforword.com

Carroll School Program Coordinator , x3307 e-mail: Carroll School Fast ForWord

mood-Bell Learning Processes™ (LBLP) Learning processes programs for learning disabled. Addressing phonemic awareness for reading, and spelling. Comprehension, math, drawing and etc. Diagnostic testing and tutoring. They have four main programs: LiPS™ Program , Seeing Stars® , The On Cloud Nine™ Math and Visualizing and Verbalizing® for Language Comprehension and Thinking (V/V™) , they are listed on this webpage.

Telian Learning Concepts (TLC)The Telian program teaches phonemic awareness and phonics. Alemian TelianP.O. Box 453Stoughton, MA 02072 (phone/fax)www.readingwithtlc.com

Wisnia-Kapp Reading Programs, Inc. (WKRP) Judith Wisnia and Associates, Inc. 111 South Bedford Street Burlington, MA 01803 www.home.comcast.net/~jwisnia18/wkrp/

Visualizing and Verbalizing® for Language Comprehension and Thinking (V/V™) by Nanci Bell The program applies concept imagery to reading comprehension, oral language comprehension, following directions, higher order thinking skills, expressive language and writing.

mood-Bell™ 108 Pleasant Street Arlington, MA www.lblp.com

Articles about Reading Comprehension

Reading Fluency is the ability to read with speed, accuracy, and proper expression.

Phonics and Word Recognition Instruction in Early Reading Programs: Guidelines for Accessibility J. Chard, University of Texas at Austin and Osborn, Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois (1999)

Article about Reading Fluency

Where can parents and teacher go for training in these reading programs:

Reading Disabilities Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Wang Ambulatory Care Center, Suite 737 Boston, MA 02114 www.pcs.mgh.harvard.edu/heal_read.asp

Garside Institute for Teacher Training (GIFTT) Carroll School Baker Bridge Road Lincoln, MA 01773 www.carrollschool.org/giftt.html

Phonemic Awareness Programs:Phonemic Awareness - Involves the explicit awareness of the individual phonemes (sounds) and the manipulation of these sounds. It involves such task as rhyming, segmenting sounds, blending sounds, and manipulating sounds (deleting and substituting sounds). It's metalinguistic. Children learn how to think about the sound structure of language and are given strategies to both process and manipulate the sound structure in order to learn to read and spell. (Short definitions: Hearing and manipulating sounds in spoken words.) The mood Phonemic Sequencing™ (LiPS™) Program (formerly called the ADD Program, Auditory Discrimination in Depth) Students become aware of the mouth actions which produce speech sounds so they can feel sounds within words. Telian Learning ConceptsThe Telian program teaches phonemic awareness and phonics. Alemian TelianP.O. Box 453Stoughton, MA 02072 (phone/fax)www.readingwithtlc.com

Wisnia-Kapp Reading Programs, Inc. (WKRP) Judith Wisnia and Associates, Inc. 111 South Bedford Street Burlington, MA 01803 http://home.comcast.net/~jwisnia18/wkrp/

Specialized Program Individualizing Reading Excellence (SPIRE) S.P.I.R.E. is a Multisensory, sequential, phonetic to reading approach for grades K to 7. Students hear, see, say, touch, and write letters, sounds, syllables, words and sentences.

Progress Learning, Inc. P.O. Box 545 Kennebunk, ME 04043 e-mail: S.P.I.R.E.

Articles about reading disabilities.

Catch Them Before They Fall - Identification and Assessment to Prevent Reading Failure in Young ChildrenBy ph K. Torgesen, American Educator, Spring/Summer 1998

Why Reading Is Not a Natural ProcessBy G. Reid Lyon, LDA Newsbriefs, Learning Disabilities Association of America (2000)

Spelling Programs Information

Seeing Stars®: Symbol Imagery for Phonemic Awareness, Sight Words and Spelling Program This program uses visualizing individual letter and extends into multi syllables, contextual reading and spelling.

Spelling: Development Disability and Instruction Published by Baltimore, MD: New York Press This book is has the instructional principles detailed by Louisa Cook-Moats.

The following workbooks are published by EPS (Educator Publishing Service) located in Cambridge, MA:

How To Teach Spelling and How To Spell program both by L. Rudginsky and E. Haskell Spelling instruction based on Orton-Gillingham patterns.

Spellwell, by M. Hall A spelling series for Grade level 2 - 5. teaches grade-level words that follow a particular pattern as well as words that are chosen by the individual student.

Vocabulary from Classical Roots series Explicit instruction in morphology spelling relationships.

First and Second Course in Phonic Reading, by Lida G. Helson Is intended for children who needs a basic foundation in phonics. Covers the sounds of the letters and phonograms.

Articles about spelling and Learning disabilities.

Math Programs InformationSemple Math A basic skill mathematics program. A unique mnemonic teaching strategies. The student will learn mnemonics to help acquire arithmetic facts and understanding of place value. It can help the student remember times tables, and all math concepts and operations. son Learning Skills, Inc. 8 Commonwealth Avenue Attleboro Falls, MA 2763-1014 1-

The Landmark Method of Teaching Arithmetic

A practical method for teaching word problems and fundamental math operations. Compensatory strategies for language syntax deficits, poor automatatization skills, low digit spans, inaccurate estimation and sequencing overload.

Landmark Outreach P. O. Box 227, Prides Crossing, MA 10965 x2116

The On Cloud Nine™ Math: A Visualizing/Verbalizing Math Program

A concept and numeral imagery are integrated with language and applied to math computation and problem solving. There is emphasis on both mathematical reasoning and mathematical computation.

Articles about math-related learning disabilities

Writing Programs InformationThe Landmark Method for Teaching Writing

A practical strategies for teaching process writing and writing in the classroom. It emphasizes the integration of language and critical thinking skills within a five-step writing process. Paragraph framing, graphic organizing, multi-paragraph writing, sample templates and exercises that teachers can copy and use in their classrooms are included. (Appropriate for middle and secondary school learners.)Graphic Organizer Forms (For elementary level) you can print out and use.

Articles about writing disabilities.