Overview & Experience: Interventions for Students with

Meg Davis, Special Education Coordinator Elizabeth Walsh, ATSS Specialist Department of Teaching & Learning Learning Targets

• I will have knowledge of reading interventions appropriate for students with dyslexia • I will have an understanding of the type of learner who will benefit from each intervention • I will have knowledge of what a lesson looks like from the reading interventions What reading interventions will we discuss today?

• Read Naturally Live! (RNL) • Orton-Gillingham (OG) • Phono-Graphix (PG) • My Virtual Reading Coach (MVRC) • SpellRead Read Naturally Live!

• What skills are targeted? ØFluency

• Who may benefit from this intervention? ØStudents in grades 2-12 who decode laboriously and need to work on automaticity and fluency Read Naturally Live Video Orton-Gillingham (OG) • What literacy skills are targeted? ØAlphabet ØSound/symbol correspondence ØHandwriting ØBlending/segmenting ØPhonics ØSight words ØSpelling ØOrthography ØMorphology

• Who may benefit from this intervention? ØStudents in grades 1-12 who have not made progress in Word Study, struggle to decode and encode accurately and may have a phonological processing deficit Orton-Gillingham Lessons

• 3 Part Drill • Teaching a New Concept Phono-Graphix (PG) • What literacy skills are targeted? ØBlending ØSegmenting ØPhoneme manipulation

• Who may benefit from this intervention? ØStudents in grades 1-5 who need additional instruction and practice with blending, segmenting, manipulation, and decoding Phono-Graphix Lessons

• Word Building Lesson • Phoneme Manipulation Lesson • Discovery Reading and Mapping Lesson My Virtual Reading Coach • What literacy skills are targeted? ØPhonemic Awareness ØPhonics ØGrammar ØComprehension ØFluency ØVocabulary • Who may benefit from this intervention? ØStudents in grades 2-12 who have not made progress in Word Study, struggles to decode and encode accurately and with automaticity, and may have a phonological processing deficit SpellRead

• What literacy skills are targeted? ØBlending/Segmenting ØFluency

• Who may benefit from this intervention? ØStudents in grades 2-5 who have tried other interventions such as OG or PG and are still struggling with decoding text SpellRead Lessons

• Build Lesson • Blend Lesson