Barton Marks, M.Ed.
Online Reading Coach
Remedial Reading Methodologies
Orton-Gillingham Method
An instructional approach intended primarily for use with individuals who have difficulty with reading, spelling, and writing. Written language is broken into six syllable types and explicitly instructed until students acquire automaticity, fluency, and comprehension.
Lindamood LiPS
The Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing Program for Reading, Spelling, and Speech is a comprehensive multi-sensory program that uses explicit, systematic instruction to develop phonological awareness, decoding, spelling, and reading skills.
The Approach
One-on-one instruction
Certain aspects of remedial reading instruction must be given individually, making group classes a much slower option. This is why traditional schooling, with its group model, often fails these students. One-on-one instruction is the most effective approach to bring children up to grade level.
Diagnosis and Remediation
The Orton-Gillingham and Lindamood-Bell methods are diagnostic in nature, which means that the therapist identifies and remediates the specific issues of each individual student. These are not scripted, cookie-cutter methods, but student-centered and tailored to each student's individual strengths and needs.
From one to several weekly online sessions
The pandemic opened up unprecedented opportunities for reading instruction, allowing students to work remote from anywhere with internet access.
Reading remediation requires weekly work, and these methods are designed for multiple one-hour, one-on-one sessions per week. When the student reaches a certain point in the program, fluency and comprehension take root and independent learning begins.
The remedial pace varies with the individual student's difficulties and the intensity of instruction. In most cases, results are noticeable in a few weeks.