Spelling Intervention Review: Spelling by Pattern

Spelling Intervention - Spelling by Pattern

Spelling by Pattern is a classroom instructional program that teaches students about sounds, syllable patterns, and sense in  the English writing system.

Authors:  Ellen Javernick, Betty Hooper, and Louisa Moats, Ed.D.

Grades:  1 - 3 or remedial

The program's content includes:

• Awareness of vowel and consonant phonemes
• Knowledge of productive phoneme-grapheme correspondences
• Common irregular words from the 300 most often used words in English
• Syllable spelling patterns and combinations
• Prefix, root, and suffix constructions
• Word usage within sentence contexts
• How a word's grammatical role affects spelling
• Idioms, figures of speech, and more

Spelling by Pattern, Level 1 contains 30 cumulative lessons involving games, drills, songs, dictations. word sorts, reviews, and use of words in cloze exercises and simple writing tasks.  The first 100 words are learned through mnemonic devices and multisensory practice routines.

Spelling by Pattern, Level 2 contains 28 lessons, including reviews.  Each lesson includes introduction of a concept; exploration of a 15 - 20 word list; study of "heart" words from the most commonly used word list; use of words in context; and word sorts.

Spelling by Pattern, Level 3 is exploration.  The patterns taught in the 28 weekly lessons include words with closed, open, VCe, vowel team, vowel-r, and c-le syllables; all common patterns for long vowel spellings; homophones; "heart" (irregular) words; and words with common prefixes and suffixes.

Teacher Training

Teacher manuals explain the concepts presented in each lesson, provide scripts for each concept's introduction, and provide answer keys for lessons.

Get sample downloads at Voyager Sopris Learning

Reference:  

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Reading Intervention Program Review: The Sonday System

Reading Intervention Program Review:  The Sonday System

Description:  The Sonday System instructional materials and methods have been compiled to help teachers effectively use proven literacy instructional strategies.  The Sonday System is based on Orton-Gillingham instructional principles that have been well documented over time.  The Orton-Gillingham approach has been the subject of five major reading research studies over the last 70 years, in 1940, 1956, 1969, 1979, and 1984.  Citing these, the National Reading Panel identified Orton-Gillingham as one of the effective methodologies that address the needs of struggling readers (National Reading Panel, 2000).

Ages:  PreK-Adult

            The Sonday System materials have been carefully crafted to incorporate the essential components of reading (phonemic awareness, phonological awareness, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension) and also integrates a systematic spelling component.  When reading and spelling are taught together, progress is faster, learning is more secure and the learner becomes a writer as well as a reader.  Spelling offers an opportunity for kinesthetic/tactile practice through tracing and writing, and provides immediate diagnostic information regarding sounds, rules, and concepts that have (or have not) been learned.  This intentional integration allows students to become more proficient at reading and spelling as well as writing.  Teachers can expand the spelling activities to extended writing assignments as include comprehension strategies to help children become independent readers.  Reading and writing skills must be developed sequentially and cumulatively.

            The Sonday System is offered in kits for various settings:

• Let’s Play Learn (Early Childhood – PreK and K)
• Sonday System 1 (Beginning Reading and Interventions)
• Sonday System 2 (Intermediate Reading and Interventions)

Evidence of Effectiveness:  Thirteen years of data collected from school districts using the Sonday System demonstrate a high degree of effectiveness.   Educational experts in industry-leading, organizations such as the National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD), the International Dyslexia Association (IDA), and Reading First offices in several states have independently evaluated the Sonday System and found that the program contained the required elements for successful reading identified by the National Reading Panel (2000).  Additional information, including the Sonday System effectiveness reports and how to access the analysis reports from NCLD and IDA is available at www.winsorlearning.com.

Teacher Training:  Winsor Learning provides extensive training, coaching, and consulting services to support the use of the Sonday System.  With ongoing, sustained professional development that includes initial training and follow-up coaching, teachers learn through explanation, demonstration and role playing.  The strategies are consistent with those recommended by the National Reading Panel (2000).

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Essentials of Dyslexia Assessment and Intervention, Mather, N and Wendling, B (2012)

Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to effectively understand, assess, and treat individuals struggling with dyslexia.

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Essentials of Dyslexia Assessment and Intervention

Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to effectively understand, assess, and treat individuals struggling with dyslexia

Essentials of Dyslexia Assessment and Intervention provides practical, step-by-step information on accurately identifying, assessing, and using evidence-based interventions with individuals with dyslexia. Addressing the components that need to be considered in the assessment of dyslexia—both cognitive and academic—this book includes descriptions of the various tests used in a comprehensive dyslexia assessment along with (more…)