Phono-Graphix Reading
Let's Do This....Practice Creates Mastery
Phono-Graphix Reading Mastery For Students Who Struggle to Learn How to Read
- Knowing and retaining the English written code (sound to symbol relationships)
- Auditory processing (moving sounds in and out of words)
- Blending (pushing sounds together)
- Segmenting (decoding)
- Sequencing
- Fluency (Automating Reading)
Parents ask how long will this take. The answer is dependent upon the student. Most students show improvement in one of the skills within the first 6 hours, but students who have struggled can take between 6-9 months to get to mastery of these skills. As summer is only 12 weeks long, we offer reading intensives which are daily or at least biweekly for 2 hour 1-1 sessions. They are interactive, movement-oriented, sensory-appropriate and most students report that they have fun. This particular reading intensive does not focus on comprehension. However, it can lead to better comprehension once students master their vowel sounds, understand the four concepts of reading:
- Letters are pictures of sounds.
- Sound pictures can be represented with more than one letter.
- There is variation in the code.
- There is overlap in the code.
When students start applying these concepts daily, fluency increases. When fluency increases, comprehension gets easier. Phono-Graphix is not a comprehension training program. It is a reading skills program, and once a student is reading more independently, they are more apt to practice!
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What Does the Research Tell Us...?
- Most students lose about two months of grade level equivalency in mathematical computation skills over the summer months. Low-income students also lose more than two months in reading achievement, despite the fact that their middle-class peers make slight gains (Cooper, 1996).
- All young people experience learning losses when they do not engage in educational activities during the summer. Research spanning 100 years shows that students typically score lower on standardized tests at the end of summer vacation than they do on the same tests at the beginning of the summer (White, 1906; Heyns, 1978; Entwisle & Alexander 1992; Cooper, 1996; Downey et al, 2004).
- According to James Kim, assistant professor of education at Harvard University, "In our first study, we surveyed 2,000 kids in fourth and sixth grade and asked what they read over the summer. We found that the kids who read the most over the summer did better in the fall—but that didn’t tell us why. Do books lead to comprehension or do good readers just have more books? So we followed up that study with larger, more comprehensive studies that looked at different approaches to see what worked best. Just providing books without guidance made no difference for younger children and only a slight difference for older children. Even having teachers encourage kids to read appeared to have no impact on comprehension. But we saw a significant difference when we provided books and adults were involved to guide reading skills and understanding.
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