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READING COMES ALIVE!

WE HELP STUDENT’S MASTER READING BY:

  • Rebuilding a student’s reading system
  • Having student’s overcome poor reading habits
  • Training reading at a basic sound-to-code level
  • Producing rapid, measurable results
  • Encouraging fluency and comprehension
  • Producing guaranteed gains in reading, spelling, and comprehension
  • Giving children and adults the tools they need for a lifetime of better reading
  • Our Master Reading and Spelling Codes (MRSC) program: Offers a structured, scientifically informed approach to teaching reading and spelling. And it focuses on the foundational connection between sounds (phonemes) and their written codes (graphemes). Here is an overview of its key features and benefits:
  • Kay Features:

1. Sound-to-Code Focus:

  • Trains students to recognize and associate speech sounds with their written representations.
  • Builds reading and spelling skills simultaneously.

2. Blending and Segmenting:

  • Students learn to segment words into phonemes and blend them into words, strengthening their decoding and encoding abilities.

3. Use of Nonsense Words:

  • Prevents reliance on word memorization, encouraging mastery of phonemic decoding skills.

4. Sensory-Level Training:

  • Direct instruction on how to articulate sounds, utilizing jaw, tongue, lips, teeth, and vocal cords for proper pronunciation.

5. Probabilistic Approach to Spelling Alternatives:

  • Introduces alternative spellings for sounds in order of likelihood, embedding patterns into long-term memory without relying on rules.

6. Sequential and Cumulative Instruction:

  • Lessons progress from simple to complex, reinforcing prior knowledge and introducing new concepts in a logical order.

7. Automaticity and Fluency:

  • Repetition and practice ensure the code becomes automatic, freeing cognitive resources for comprehension.

Target Audience:

  • Young Learners: Establishes strong, efficient reading habits from the beginning.
  • Older Students and Adults: Helps those with ingrained poor reading habits rebuild foundational skills.

Benefits:

  • Improves reading skills rapidly, with measurable results.
  • Promotes fluency and comprehension through sound-based training.
  • Eliminates the need for the unreliable rule memorization and the site-word way.
  • Provides tools for lifelong reading success.
  • The MRSC program stands out for its ability to embed reading skills at a subconscious level, enabling efficient and automatic decoding and encoding. It’s particularly effective for individuals who struggle with traditional reading approaches or who require a systematic and sensory-oriented method.
  • READING COMPRENSION
  • Improving reading comprehension involves developing a range of cognitive and linguistic skills to help students not just decode words but also understand and retain the meaning of the text. Below are key strategies and focus areas we use to enhance comprehension skills:

1. Reading Accuracy:

  • Fluency in reading is foundational for comprehension.
  • Practice phrased and repeated reading to improve pace and accuracy.

2. Visualization Processing and Mental Imagery:

  • A cognitive skill that allows readers to picture mental images, which we encourage students to create mental pictures of the scenes, concepts, or ideas in the text, which research shows is critical for reading comprehension.
  • Use prompts like “What do you see in your mind as you read this?”
  • By integrating these techniques and focusing skills like visualization, retention, and language understanding, students can significantly improve reading comprehension. A systematic approach tailored to individual needs ensures long-term success in reading, spelling, and comprehension.
  • THE POWER OF MRSC
  • “Tony went from being a nonreader to loving to read. He is very proud of himself when he can read a book with little or no help. He would not have accomplished any of this if it were not for the wonderful training he received”. –Linda G

Orthographic Brain Mapping: What You Need to Know

There’s been a lot of discussion in the literacy field about the significance of orthographic mapping. While the term is commonly mentioned, what does it really mean? Let’s explore the stages of reading development, understanding what orthographic mapping is (and what it is not), and examine ways to help students build strong orthographic maps.

Stages of Reading Development

Reading is a multifaceted process involving multiple stages of development. Before children start reading, they acquire language, learn how books function, and begin recognizing that symbols have meaning (e.g. “the golden arches” symbolize McDonald’s).

Next, children start learning the alphabet and the corresponding letter sounds. For instance, they discover that the letter ‘d’ represents the /d/ sound. Through repeated practice—seeing, hearing, saying, and eventually writing these letter- sound correspondences-connections between letters and sounds strengthen.

As children progress from learning the alphabet to decoding, they initially sound out each letter in a word and blend the together. Though slow at first, practice helps children recognize and blends sounds more efficiently. During this stage, orthographic mapping begins. Familiar words, letters, and sounds are bundled together and stored in long-term memory for quick retrieval.
With fluency established, children transition from “learning to read” to “reading to learn.” They decode new words, engage in diverse viewpoints, and tackle complex ideas. This advanced reading state relies heavily on orthographic mapping.

What is Orthographic Mapping?

David Kilpatrick, a researcher in reading development and is a professor in the department of Psychology, State University of New York College, describes orthographic mapping as the mental process used to store words for immediate, effortless retrieval. This process transforms unfamiliar printed words into instantly recognizable ones.
For children taught with systematic phonics, orthographic mapping occurs with every word they learn to read automatically. Though invisible, its success is evident when a child reads a word effortlessly. The brain connects a word’ letters and sounds, bundles them together, and stores them for automatic recall.
Orthographic mapping is an ongoing process. Even as fluent readers, we continue mapping new words throughout life. For example, you may have found orthographic unfamiliar at first, but after repeated exposure, it becomes part of your mental lexicon.

What Orthographic Mapping is Not.

1. Not Memorizing Sight Words: A common misconception is equating orthographic mapping as memorizing sight-words. While mapped word is read instantly, traditional sight-word methods involve rote memorization without connecting graphemes and phonemes. These words are truly not mapped in the brain.

1. Not a Teaching Method: Orthographic mapping isn’t a teaching strategy or activity. It’s a mental process that happens in a child’s mind. Teachers can foster conditions for mapping by teaching some foundational skills, but the process itself is internal.

Helping Students Build Strong Orthographic Maps

To support orthographic mapping, focus on these key areas.
  1. Develop Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Teach skills like rhyming, syllable counting, blending, and phoneme manipulation. Activities such as segmenting words and phonemes using E. boxes can strengthen these skills.
  2. Explicit, Systemic Phonics Instruction Use structures phonics programs to build strong grapheme-phoneme connections (we have Reading Sounds Write). Emphasize blending, segmenting, and exposure to decodable texts.

By combining these strategies, we give children the tools to create orthographic maps and become proficient readers and spellers.

Final Thoughts and Resources

Teaching children (all students of any age) to read and spell doesn’t need to be overwhelming. Programs like those at Optimal Learning Skills (813.723.0113) focus on phonological and phonemic awareness through multisensory activities that promote orthographic mapping. With the right tools and approaches, we can help every child become a comfortable, fluent reader.

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Mastering Reading and Spelling codes

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Sounds: The Basic Building Blocks of Reading & Spelling

Teaches the Sound & Pronunciation Code! Phonological Awareness

READING offers a lifetime of rewards, both inside and outside the classroom. SPEECH SOUNDS are the foundation which the Writing System and the Reading Code was formed. Sounds are Natural. Reading SPEECH & SOUNDS Write Spelling require the Sounds that we say and the letter symbols we use in Writing.

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For many Students, Reading Skills can be Hard to Learn.

  • This Reading Program gives Students a way to Build these Skills and become stronger, more confident Readers.
  •  It includes Sound-to-Code approach to help learners build and improve Reading Skills. 

  • This program helps Readers Build a Foundation of Core Reading and Improve Reading Comprehension.

  •  It uses Exercises for a range of Cognitive skills tied to Reading with a Special Focus on Auditory Processing Skills.
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For many Students, Reading Skills can be Hard to Learn.

This Reading Program gives Students a way to Build these Skills and become stronger, more confident Readers.
It includes the Sound-to-Code approach to help learners build and improve Reading Skills. This program helps Readers Build a Foundation of Core Reading and Improve Reading Comprehension.

It uses Exercises for a range of Cognitive skills tied to Reading with a Special Focus on Auditory Processing Skills.

Auditory Processing is the Cognitive Skill that allows Readers to:

  • Recognizes Sounds made with the Sound-Symbol Relationship
  • Separate or unglue Sounds and blend them together to form Words.
  • Reading Fluidity: Ability to Read Smoothly and creates and uses mental images.

These Reading and Spelling Programs Develops:

  • Phonemic Awareness & Phonological Processing
  • At each step, students learn the different ways the sounds can be written in text, working from the most likely to the least likely spelling.
  • Students learn how different letters can interact to produce new sounds and unexpected spellings.
  • As students’ progress, they learn how to blend, sequence, and process these sounds into words. Instead of memorizing how words are spelled, they learn the Core Skills they need to naturally sound out words while reading.
  • Over the course of the Reading program, students develop a strong system for understanding written language.
  • This gives students foundational skills they need for a Lifetime of Reading!

Improve Reading Comprehension

Recognizing words is only half of the battle when reading. Grasping the meaning behind whose words is equally important. So, when students are having trouble understanding what they read, help with reading comprehension can be a game changer.
Focusing on the following set of skills if a key:

  • Reading speed and accuracy
  • Picture images and visualizing concepts
  • Expanding vocabulary when reading and writing
  • Remembering key information while reading
  • Processing complex sentences and language

One of the main focuses of comprehension is a skill called visual processing.

  • This is a cognitive skill that allows readers to picture mental images, which research shows is critical for reading comprehension.
  • This skill plays a critical role in comparing ideas, making analogies, retaining information, and understanding abstract concepts.
  • And, So Much More!

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