Would anyone recommend a reading program that you have tried and have actually seen positive results ? Most of my middle school resource students have a learning disability in the area of reading. Their ages range from 10-14 so I am very interested in a program that won’t appear to be “babyish” to them. Any suggestions, reading methods you have tried, strategies,etc. would be appreciated.
Re: increasing reading achievement
You might want to join the ReadNOW list at http://www.groups.yahoo.com and ask there. Quite a few of the subscribers to that list have experience using Phono-Graphix (http://www.readamerica.net) with middle schoolers, and PG is not seen as “babyish”.
Mary
Re: increasing reading achievement
My daughter in in the fifth grade and will start privately with a tutor teaching the Wilson program. She will go twice a week. I am hopeful that we will see progress within six months. I’m glad you are able to report good things!!
Re: increasing reading achievement
You may consider trying the Stevenson Reading Program information can be found at (www.stevensonsemple.com). This reading program has been considered to be successful with other middle school resource students with learning disabilities.
I”ve had a lot of success in public school settings with SRA’s Corrective REading (and it’s designed for older kids); with 1-4 kids at a time at a school for kids with LDs I had even more success with a structured multisensory program also designed for older students (Wilson is a commercially available program for classroom use — more info on it, and online training, at www.wilsonlanguage.com .)
I, too, struggled before I found the programs — couldn’t believe the guys had gotten as far as they had, reading as poorly as they did. Smart kids… just couldn’t read.