This is the foundation of specialized and intensive structured literacy reading instruction for children who have significant and severe decoding weaknesses. The primary focus of the lessons is phonemic awareness, phonics concepts, and essential word-attack skills, and the net effect of these lessons is faster and more accurate reading of complex text.
These foundational lessons help students who have trouble with decoding, either because of gaps in their phonics and phonemic knowledge or because of bad reading habits such as skipping or guessing unfamiliar words.
These students often read less accurately than they could, which leads to reading problems. Common symptoms include misreading unfamiliar words or words that look alike, struggling with multi-syllable words, reading slowly, or skipping small function words.
In our sessions, students learn to practice what good readers do naturally: pay attention to every word, read with a high rate of accuracy, and use strategies for attacking unfamiliar and multi-syllable words.
Our lessons explicitly teach phonemic awareness, phonics concepts, and word attack skills. They also focus on reading accurately, which translates to better comprehension.
The lessons are research-based, multi-sensory, explicitly structured, intensive, and highly effective for children who have gaps in their basic decoding skills.
Most children who qualify for Blast or Boost do not read accurately enough to correctly comprehend what they are reading. Our lessons focus on accurately decoding words at the word, phrase, sentence, and passage level.
The lessons reinforce the importance of accurate reading and provide the skills and practice your child needs to read accurately and fluently.
Students who complete the 20 week program improve improve by one grade level, on avarage.
Matching phonemes (the sounds in words) to graphemes (the spellings) cannot happen until students can confidently hear and identify the sounds in words. Boost lessons include explicit phonological and phonemic awareness instruction and practice that allows students to focus on sounds without the use of letters.
The lessons teach and review the proper articulation of the phonemes, the blending and segmenting of simple one-syllable words, and the blending and segmenting of multi-syllable words with and without schwa sounds. In Boost ™ lessons, it’s only after students have learned to identify and name all the vowel sounds that they learn the common spelling patterns for advanced vowels.
Boost lessons encourage the use of positive error correction to emphasize what students do correctly instead of immediately pointing out mistakes. That means students can be and feel successful. Improved confidence is often one of the reasons that we see Boost students make significant gains in their reading rate while simultaneously improving their accuracy – two of the positive outcomes we love.
The Boost scope and sequence is systematic and cumulative.
Each lesson has four parts: Oral Reading, with students periodically charting their own accuracy and fluency rate, Phonemic Awareness skill-building activities, Phonics Concepts taught with engaging manipulatives, and Student Practice. In addition, students have daily access to the digital playground to practice essential skills.
Repetition is key for students with dyslexia, and we provide an online digital playground to practice the skills they need to become independent readers and spellers.
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