Poll: Most effective reading methods

To be fair, I think you should compare Orton Gillingham to Phono-Graphix rather than to Reading Reflex. OG and PG are professional programs that require training. Reading Reflex was written for parents.

Nancy

Another thing is that I think that I don’t want to make a comparison like that. You wouldn’t use OG with all children, it’s overkill. Just like you wouldn’t use LiPS. No doubt it would be effective for everyone but you wouldn’t want to do it.

—des

That poll is a little limiting, although it is a nice idea. All OG based programs are not equal. Several come to mind like Wilson, Language!, Barton, etc. They are all different. My favorite basic decoding program has influence from Lindamood-Bell and Phono-Graphix (but better organized and easier to use) and is called ABeCeDarian www.abcdrp.com. I am also planning to try SRA Corrective Reading Decoding for a 5th grader who has learned the code with Phono-Graphix but has extreme difficulty with automaticity and fluency.

So like des, I think we really need more than one program or method to match a particular child’s needs. But I generally feel that something like Phono-Graphix or ABeCeDarian teaches the code faster than most OG programs.

Janis

Oh, and 4 Blocks is a regular ed. framework for instruction and would have nothing to do with remediating a reading disorder.

Janis

It would depend on the student - especially the nature and severity of the decoding difficulties.

Yea, you can find people who boil these questions down to “what’s best?”

That’s one of the biggest problems in the field - the people who won’t say “THIS IS BEST” because they recognize complexities lose ground to the folks who are willing to give the rah-rah sales pitches and forget the details.

There are also lots of other problems with the question.