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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reading interventionist here: Different people mean different things by "Science of Reading." Most kids with dyslexia (but not all) have weak phonological skills and weak phonics skills.  Some kids have trouble with rapid naming (RAN/RAS), processing speed, working memory and other issues. You can't change someone's processing speed or working memory, but you can make a huge impact on weak phonological and phonics skills.  Even if your child's SpEd teacher knows exactly what to do, there isn't enough time at school to teach a dyslexic student to read in the 60 or 90 minutes they'll get in SpEd.  Good that you can do the outside tutoring.[/quote]

From Holly Lane at the University of Florida Literacy Institute - creators of UFLI

Holly Lane
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"Yes! The components of the program align very well with what we know is effective for students with dyslexia. They don't need anything different, but most students with dyslexia will need far more opportunities to respond or to practice the skills than are provided in a typical whole-group lesson. So, in addition to whole-group, provide more practice in each element during small-group or 1:1 instruction. In particular...
- Review of new concepts will help students retain the information. Specifically, review the articulatory gestures to develop phonemic awareness, and review the grapheme placement to support understanding of the concept boundaries.
- More time doing word work with manipulative letters will improve phoneme blending and segmentation skills and build accuracy with encoding and decoding.
- More time in the blending drill will support decoding automaticity.
- Review of irregular words will promote retention.
- Practice reading and rereading the decodable passage will promote reading fluency.
- Careful observation of student responses with appropriate behavior-specific praise for correct responses and corrective feedback for incorrect responses will ensure that their practice is productive and promoting the right things."[/quote]

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