A research-based contemporary, visual-discrimination curriculum designed to help nonreaders become successful readers, specifically students with developmental disabilities, autism, and significant learning disabilities. Ensures success through a series of highly controlled mastery-based activities. Students become independent readers step by step, book by book.
Item# LR11641
A research-based curriculum created specifically to teach students with developmental disabilities, autism, and significant learning disabilities how to read. Levels One and Two teach 280 sight words and "real-world" nouns and verbs through a comprehensive system of repetition, "hands-on" practice, controlled-vocabulary reading, and high-interest activities. Nonreaders become successful readers word by word, reading 42 engaging, full-color books along the way.
Includes 28 Full-Color Controlled Vocabulary Books
Takes Nonreaders to a 1.0 Reading Level
Features the Five-Step Lesson Cycle
Every Word Practiced and Reviewed Over 100 Times
Designed as a one-on-one program and takes at least one full school year to complete. In Level One, students learn 140 of the most basic sight words from the Dolch and Fry lists. Students progress from reading individual words to 8-12 word sentences. Level One includes 28 books, ranging in length from 8 to 12 pages. By the end of Level One, nonreaders will have progressed to approximately a 1.0 reading level.
Learn Five Words and Read a Book
The five-step lesson cycle is based on visual discrimination and is designed to teach students to automatically recognize and correctly pronounce one word at a time. As each new word is learned, previous words are constantly reviewed, which promotes both short- and long-term retention. For every five words learned in Level One, students are invited to read a full-color book about the everyday life of a contemporary adolescent character.
Designed for Nonreaders ages 5 to Adult
Level One features activities and books with realistic illustrations and story lines that encompass important life skills and lessons. Students do not need to know the alphabet to begin Level One.
The only prerequisites for the program are:
Students must be able to follow simple, one-sentence directions.
Students must be able to respond to a teacher request either verbally or by pointing.
Students must be able to visually discriminate between words.
Teaches 140 Additional Sight Words "Real-World" Nouns and Verbs
Features 14 Controlled Vocabulary Books with 1-3 Paragraphs per Page
Takes Beginning Readers from a 1.0 Reading Level to a 2.5 Reading Level
Introduces New Skills, Including Wrapped Text, Inflectional Endings, and Compound Words
Designed as the next step for students who have completed Level One. It teaches 140 additional sight words and "real-world" nouns and verbs, advancing students from a 1.0 reading level to a 2.0-2.5 reading level. While Level Two's focus is still on teaching words through visual discrimination, it also introduces students to wrapped text, common inflectional endings, such as -s, -ing, and -ed, and compound words.
Words Taught in Groups of Ten Level Two
Uses the same five-step lesson cycle that students became familiar with in Level One, but it teaches the words in groups of ten rather than five. Level Two includes 14 full-color books, one for every ten words learned. Each book features a different adolescent character in a typical everyday setting. Books range in length from 12 to 16 pages and move from one paragraph per page to up to three paragraphs per page.
New Instructional Components
A set of 14 reproducible stories is provided to help students review the words they learned in Level One before beginning Level Two. The review stories use all 140 of the Level One words. In addition, Level Two features a new instructional step in the Guided Word Practice lessons called Skill Discovery. The Skill Discovery Lessons Book offers scripted lessons that teach students how to read wrapped text, interpret end punctuation marks, identify and read inflectional endings, and identify and read compound words.
What's Next?
Along with the 140 new words taught, the new skills introduced in Level Two will prepare students for Level Three, which is in development. Level Three will serve as a "bridge" between reading through visual discrimination and reading through basic decoding strategies and word attack skills. PCI is also currently working on a software version of the complete Level One Reading Program. A software version of Level Two will follow. Word Strips and specially designed Word Windows are also included to help students practice reading Words with inflectional endings and compound words.
