Wilson Reading System
The Wilson Reading System (WRS) is a highly effective, research-based Tier 3 Intervention Program that directly and explicitly teaches the structures of the English language essential for reading and spelling. As a proven method for students with reading challenges, this system is an invaluable resource for educators and Wilson reading tutors.
How words are built and their reading and spelling rules
Recognizing and learning High Frequency Words, sometimes known as Sight Words or Heart Words
Vocabulary building and understanding how to use specific words
Reading fluency, or smoothness
Listening comprehension
Reading comprehension and more!
“Explicit teaching of alphabetic decoding skills is helpful for all
children, harmful for none, and crucial for some.”
- Snowling, Hulme, Snow and Juel
The best dyslexia intervention programs are Orton-Gillingham based. In order for a program to be considered an OG program, it must meet certain criteria. These programs are specifically designed with students that have learning differences in mind, but they benefit all students. They are scientifically proven to deliver the best results.
Orton-Gillingham curriculums will be multi-sensory, sequential, incremental, cumulative, individualized, based on phonograms (letters or pairs of letters), and explicit.
The program that you select for your child should be research driven. This is an important piece of the puzzle that often gets overlooked. New programs are created all the time, but they don't often have years of empirical research to support them. This is one reason why we like the Wilson Reading Program (WRS). The WRS program is a curriculum based off the Orton-Gillingham approach. The LD Expert uses the Wilson Reading System to fidelity in order to provide the best services to our students.
While the program itself is very important, the person delivering the instruction is also critical! Most importantly, they should be fully certified in the intervention program. Wilson reading tutors should have Level 1 or Level 2 certification, or be currently completing their practicum. Simply completing the 3-day workshop is not adequate. Additionally, your tutor should make building a relationship with your student a priority!
Before becoming a certified WRS practitioner, a tutor will have:
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The Wilson Reading System (WRS) is an intervention program for students who are struggling with basic reading and spelling skills. It was developed based on years of peer-reviewed, scientifically proven data, and is the #1 program in the US for dyslexia intervention.
WRS is an Orton-Gillingham (OG) based intervention, which means that it incorporates multi-sensory techniques, a logical score and sequence, and utilizes a systematic approach to teaching reading and spelling.
The WRS program has 12 total steps. It takes about 2.5-3.5 years to complete the entire program, depending on the frequency at which students attend sessions. However, the last 2 steps are more advanced concepts for older students and may be modified and delivered in a more concise manner for younger students.
Orton-Gillingham (OG) is an approach, not a program. Wilson is one of the programs that uses the OG methods of instruction.
The WRS program teaches phonemic awareness and phonics principals. The program specifically targets decoding (sounding out words), encoding (spelling words), and reading comprehension. The progression of the program goes in a logical sequence that introduces phonics concepts to children at an appropriate pace and allows them to master a concept before moving on. The program spirals to review previously taught concepts, and focuses on one syllable type at a time.
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