Multisensory Instruction

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Multisensory Instruction
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No Child Left Behind

• One goal of No Child Left Behind (2001) is for
  ALL children in America to be reading on grade
  level by the end of the __ grade.

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Research indicates

• Results of the most recent National Assessment of
  Educational Progress on reading indicated that
  only _______ of the nation's fourth-graders
  performed at or above the _____________
  achievement level, thus demonstrating solid
  academic performance.

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• Overall, national longitudinal studies show that
  more than _____ percent of the nation's
  children--about ____________ children--will
  encounter reading problems in the crucial first
  __________ years of their schooling" (National
  Reading Panel Progress Report, 2000).

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• Approximately _____ of students identified with
  reading problems in the ____ grade are still
  reading disabled in the __ grade (Shaywitz, et
  al., 1993 Francis et al., 1996).

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Defining the MS Approach

• Dr. Samuel Orton (1920s)
• Multisensory approaches to reading are based on
  the idea that some students learn best when
  material is presented in several different
  _____________________.
• Multisensory teaching is _______________ visual,
  auditory, and kinesthetic-tactile to enhance
  memory and learning.

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VAKT

• Links are consistently made between the
  __________ (what we see), _________ (what we
  hear), and __________________ (what we feel)
  pathways in learning to read and spell. 
• When taught by a multisensory approach, children
  have the advantage of learning alphabetic
  patterns and words by utilizing all three
  pathways.

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WHY?

• Teachers who use the MS approach teach children
  to ______ the sounds of the letters with the
  written symbol.
• Children also link the sound and symbol with how
  it feels to _____ the letter or letters.
• As students learn a new letter or pattern (such
  as s or th), they carefully ____, ____, and _____
  the letter(s) while saying the corresponding
  sound.

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• Magnetic letters
• Surfaces (carpet squares or liner)
• Sky writing
• tapping