Wilson Reading System -Barbara A. Wilson Collingwood MS Key 2008/09 Wilson Reading System -Barbara A. Wilson Collingwood MS Key 2008/09 Presented by: Charlie MacDowall

Wilson Reading System Originally written for adults with dyslexia Appropriate for students who have not internalized sounds and word structure Interactive, multisensory (based on OG principles) Teaches decoding and encoding

WRS will benefit students who: have difficulty decoding accurately Slow, lack fluency Nonsense words/syllables Guess at words Poor spellers Gaps in decoding/spelling Struggling readers: Need to be directly taught Multisensory Must learn sound/symbol relationship, syllable types and spelling rules Need to experience success! Stay positive!

The program 12 steps See scope and sequence (appendix) key students will have covered concepts in steps 1-6 in OG may have covered some/most concepts in steps 7-12 Focus will be on steps 7-12 Many students will be fluent in reading words in steps 7-12, but have difficulty with spelling

The program cont. Materials Instructors Manual Teacher and student binders/notebook Rules notebook (great reference!) Sounds, 6 syllable types, spelling rules WADE (assessment of decoding/encoding) Dictation Book Steps #7-12 Student Readers #7-12, stories for older students Sound cards (from OG), syllable cards Magnetic journal/tiles Any material/games from OG etc.

Lessons Lesson plan outlines (appendix) Lesson has 10 parts Reading and spelling (parts 1-10) Mainly spelling (parts 1,2,6,7,8) A level: elementary students, ESL, limited vocab. B level: older students, larger vocab.*

10 parts of a lesson Parts 1-5: Decoding Parts 6-8: Encoding Sound cards (2-3 min.) Teach/review concepts for reading (5 min.) Word cards (3-5 min.) Wordlist reading (5 min.) Sentence reading (5 min.) Parts 6-8: Encoding Quick drill (reverse) (1-2 min.) Teach/review concepts for spelling (5 min.) Written work (dictation) (10-15 min.) approx. 45 min. Parts 9-10: Reading Comprehension Passage reading Listening comprehension/applied skills

To start Teacher binder: Student binder/notebook Scope and sequence Lesson plans Wordlist chart for each student Student binder/notebook 5 sections: sounds, syllables, spelling rules, sight words, vocabulary Dictation notebook/section

To start cont. WADE: Wilson Assessment of Decoding and Encoding Used for placement within the program Used for pre/post-testing/progress monitoring User’s Guide (step by step administration) Test Chart Student information forms/recording Forms WADE: Section 1 Sounds Section 2 Reading (real, nonsense, sight) Section 3 Spelling (words, sight, sentences) Paragraph writing (optional/useful) Mastery (the goal): tests can be done to determine mastery of skill as well

Grouping of Students Group according to pretest results Similar scores on word attack and reading vocabulary subtests and compare spelling results (especially if spelling is main concern)

Characteristics of Effective Intervention for Struggling MS Students More: explicit, comprehensive, intensive, supportive (emotionally and cognitively) Use of meaningful texts Instruction in process (word recognition, encoding, vocabulary, fluency, context clues) to help facilitate, but not central Integrate reading strategy instruction into content areas-transfer Explicit teaching of reading for different purposes, text structure Content literacy approaches in place and consistent across content areas, includes regular application Engaging and motivating Significant time spent reading Teacher plays critical role in assessment and instruction

What should our overall reading intervention program look like? Wilson and OG facilitate, but not the only component. Use for developing reading and spelling skills Still a need for reading comprehension component based on what is meaningful for MS students, that is, interesting material and material from content areas Vocabulary work from content areas Instruction in reading different types of text (ie. science textbooks, fiction/non-fiction, socials texts, websites, databases) text structure Instruction in online reading

Our Program cont. Instruction in use of accommodations Read/Write Gold, Dragon Speak, Kurzweil, Laptop etc. Spell checker component of Wilson is helpful when there are options Encourage transfer of skills to content areas – expect use of spelling rules/syllabication for unknown words etc. in class Grammar and writing component (paragraph structure, essay components)