Literacy Support
Our Mission
At Slater Elementary, Intervention Instruction is provided to students who are lagging behind their classmates in the development of critical reading skills. Our instruction is guided by research-based intervention programs that focus on one or more of the key areas of reading development that have been identified from assessment data. Intervention is designed to be in addition to classroom instruction to meet students' specific needs while at the same time accelerating their growth toward grade level reading ability.
Interventions
We utilize a collection of structured, research-based resources that meet the instructional needs of students.
Orton Gillingham
The Orton-Gillingham Approach is a direct, explicit, multisensory, structured, sequential, diagnostic, and prescriptive way to teach literacy when reading, writing, and spelling does not come easily to individuals, such as those with dyslexia.
The Orton-Gillingham Approach is focused upon the learning needs of individual students. Orton-Gillingham (OG) teachers design lessons and materials to work with students at the level they present by pacing instruction and the introduction of new materials to their individual strengths and weaknesses.
Heggerty
Phonemic awareness is the ability to understand that spoken words are made up of individual sounds called phonemes, and it’s one of the best early predictors for reading successes to understand that words are made up of individual sounds, and they can blend, segment, and manipulate those sounds.
If students can do this work through the air, we can transfer these skills to print, so they can read and spell more words.
- Heggerty: A curriculum written by Dr. Michael Heggerty and published by Literacy Resources, LLC