Anyone familiar with Corrective REadying by SRA?

Dear Beth:

Corrective Reading by SRA is a version of SRA”s Reading Mastery. Reading Mastery is used in lower grades while Corrective Reading is meant for students in grades 4 through 12. I helped a mother advocate for a more beneficial reading program for her son (in middle school). During a mediation meeting with administrators from “downtown”, this is what they proposed. It wasn’t EXACTLY what this child (and the other 14 low readers at this school) needed, but it was all Broward Cty was willing to provide. And this mother did not have the resources to go to a due process hearing.. It’s not a bad program, but it’s not as good as O-G programs such as Wilson. I have a 4 page brochure that I picked up at an IDA conference. I could fax it to you. My e-mail is LMStarr46@aol.

My son’s school uses Wilson(it’s from Mass.), and it’s meant to teach kids of average IQ to read. It’s used by schools for groups and often is in middle schools.

Beth:

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He reads about a year below grade level. Very good sight vocabulary, weak decoding, despite having been taught by her and by us. Major difficulties in generalizing.>>

Corrective Reading is an excellent group program for learning phonics. Usually students with weak phonics skills, mildly LD students and ESL students do very well. Since your son is only a year behind, this program might work well for him. However, if he has severe phonological processing deficits, a program like Wilson, Lindamood might be more beneficial to him.

I’ve had lots of experience using Corrective Reading, and it is an effective intervention tool. I’ve had a few students, though, who made absolutely no progress at all (severely dyslexic), and definitely needed a very small group multisensory reading/spelling program. Unless the Special Ed. department is supportive, it is next to impossible to implement such a program during the school day, but Corrective Reading is definitely the next best thing.

Marilyn

I think they only use Wilson in high school here. My son is only 9.

Beth

Well, I don’t know if I feel any better reading your message. My son is not mildly LD. He is severely LD—with multiple processing problems but whom has had a lot of intervention and support. His reading level is deceptive—you don’t know what it has taken to get him there.

Glad to know though it is a solid program.

Beth

My son started Wilson in 3rd grade in school.

Well, I live in a district that would rather clean up in highschool than deal with problems early. They are throwing money at all the kids who can’t read in high school. Noone seems clever enough to figure out that they would be better off doing intensive intervention early.

Beth

Beth:

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Since he has had so much intervention, hopefully a multisensory reading/spelling program, Corrective Reading may be just the thing to polish his word attack skills. If he is a slow reader, his reading rate may increase some as well with this program. It can’t hurt to try it. Except for Level C, each level takes a semester to complete. Level C is a year-long program, and not only works on multisyllabic words, but includes comprehension skills as well.

Marilyn

Beth,

We are sort of in a similar situation with my son. He is severely dyslexic with extremely impaired phonemic awareness and multiple processing problems, as well as short and long term memory deficits thrown in.

We just recently (this past summer) got the school to pay for OG tutoring - he gets 2 hours per week 1:1 from a very good tutor- but we have to travel and hour there and an hour make (the school pays for mileage). The OG has been extremely effective!!!!

I had tried PG with him in the past and we didn’t get anywhere - he is severly dyslexic. Before the school finally acknowledged the dyslexia (had to get a top expert to say he had it) we agreed to use SRA because at least it was phonics based, direct and cummulative - he made some progress but could not generalize outside the “reading instruction” time during school.

My son’s tutor uses some Wilson stuff (which is a great program) but even he thought that my son needed straight OG as he said that it was even more multisensory than Wilson. The expert that we saw recommended Wilson - but the school was unable to get a Wilson tutor immediately and went with the OG (which has been great). Since school started his self-contained LD teacher went to 1 Wilson training overview. She currently is using SRA Corrective Reading with the rest of my son’s LD class (which is great for those kids because they were getting no where with the whole language mess before the SRA). She thought that SRA and Wilson were similar in scope and sequence.

I asked a knowlegeable person (who posts on these boards) who has used OG, Wilson, and SRA and she stated that although SRA and Wilson were similar in philosophy - they were set up/organized differently. Wilson organizes by syllable type and SRA does not. She also stated that SRA was “lighter” in multi-sensory techniques than Wilson.

She also stated the same thing that Marilyn said in an earlier post here that it was good for kids with weak phonics skills or mildly LD but not as effective for those with more severe problems.

I can tell you from our experience just over the last 4 months with OG that it has done more for him than anything else and I think it is the heavy multi-sensory techniques and its organization (he loves those rules for spelling and stuff).

Just thought I would let you know our experience. Hope you get something that you and your son will do well with and progress.

Pam