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Computer Instruction is only available in the Metro Toronto and Durham regions of Ontario.
Students enrolled in the Academy of Reading are able to achieve exceptional reading results because this program's training modules ensure the mastery of fundamental reading skills.
The program is a very structured one.
Students are trained in phonemic awareness, decoding, and phonics.
Silent and oral reading comprehension follow.
Time and accuracy of response are recorded as these variables are key indicators of mastery and the ability to advance.
Although a teacher is available at all times, students also have access to a friendly Computer Tutor which provides help with training activities, lessons and tests.
With the Academy of Reading, tens of thousands of students have achieved an average improvement of 2.5 grade levels in 25 hours of concentrated study.
TEST BATTERIES AND TRAINING:
- Phonemic Awareness Test Battery:
Includes:
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Word Matching |
tests: measure student's ability to identify similar sounds in words
training: student learns to identify rhyming words, word beginning and word ending sounds
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Sound Matching |
tests: measure student's ability to isolate sounds in words
training: student learns to isolate beginning, middle and end sounds
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Blending |
tests: student must combine 3 or 4 isolated sounds into a recognizable word
training: student learns to combine 3 or 4 sounds into a recognizable word
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Segmentation |
tests: student must construct words from their component sounds
training: student learns to reconstruct words from 3 or 4 phonemes
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RECOMMENDED FOR:
- pre-reading
- beginning stages of reading
- speech sound discrimination problems
- pronunciation difficulties
- poor word attack and/or spelling skills
- ESL (English as a Second Language)
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- Reading Subskills Test Battery:
Initial testing will place students in one of the following categories:
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Type O students - these students have difficulty with the oral reading of words and syllables.
Training - timed oral reading exercises.
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Type A students - these students have intermodal-association problems, i.e., they have difficulty in the auditory-visual matching of letters, syllables and words.
Training - timed auditory-visual matching exercises.
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Type S students - these students have sequential relations difficulties, i.e., they are poor in the visual and auditory-visual matching of syllables and words, but not single letters
Training - timed visual matching exercises.
- Reading Word Recognition Test Battery:
This measures a student’s reading word recognition skills.
- Oral Reading Comprehension Test Battery:
This examines a student’s oral reading accuracy, oral reading rate and proficiency in oral reading comprehension.
- Silent Reading Comprehension Test Battery:
This examines the student’s silent reading rate and proficiency in silent reading comprehension.
- Cloze Paragraph Test Battery:
This examines the student’s ability to use context clues, grammatical structure and prediction clues.
- Oral and Silent Reading Comprehension Training:
The student reads a passage of between 80 and 150 words. He/She then answers a set of multiple choice questions which examine the student’s reading vocabulary, and his/her ability to identify the main idea, to understand relationships, to make inferences, to note specific facts and details and to retain information
NOT AVAILABLE IN FRENCH
For more information please call or e-mail us.
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