Wilson Reading System?

I hope others will respond to you as well so you can get a full picture. I’m not a fan of Wilson Reading but others are. I find reading programs very “faddish” and I see Wilson as one of the newer fads in reading remediation. As a teacher, I have yet to see the reading remediation that works for every child.

As a parent, I tried Wilson for my son and it accomplished nothing. Wilson asks a two year commitment (!) from a student and suggested to me that no improvment would be visible into well into the two years. That’s a long time. Most tutoring or most therapies should show some improvement earlier on than that. Children and parents alike need to see some gain as they commit significant amounts of time and money.

I don’t quite understand any reading tutoring or remediation that suggests there will be no improvement until a year or so later. I don’t think there are quick fixes to reading issues but of all the children I’ve seen go through Wilson I have yet to find one “cured” by it.

But that’s just my opinion based on my experience. I would be happy to hear that others saw great improvement in their children’s reading or their students’ reading from the Wilson program.

I am using the Wilson Program in my Resource Room this year with several students. The students seem to like the program and its structured lessons. I have one student who started at the beginning of Book 2 in September and is now about finished with Book 3. He is a sixth grade student who came to my school this fall with literally no reading skills other than knowing consonant sounds, and still confused many of those. He is now able to slowly read in his sixth grade Health text after review of vocab. He is not fluent past the third grade level, but he is now aware that he can decode and read.
I still supplement the program with more writing than required, and also show them short stories they can now read so they are transferring.