How ReVAMP Reading can help you and your students
ReVAMP Reading:
- addresses the underlying needs of struggling students.
* According to the Dyslexia Center of Utah 70 - 80% of struggling students have a phonological impairment (Dyslexia).
- provides explicit phonological instruction to train the brain to feel and hear the sounds in words.
- trains students to feel how their mouth moves for each sound in the English language.
- teaches students how to manipulate the sounds in words BEFORE matching each sound with letters.
- helps students learn to read and spell words up to 5 & 6 syllables long.
- helps students learn how to use word parts (morphology) to understand how words work.
- enables fluent reading using a structured approach that incorporates all aspects of fluency.
- infuses meaning throughout the process and utilizes a structured, scaffolded approach to constructing
meaning.
- is a structured, yet flexible, approach designed to help ALL struggling readers.
- is built on an approach (Lindamood LiPS) that implemented the Science of Reading BEFORE that term
became a popular term.
How ReVAMP Reading Utilizes The Science of Reading
"The Science of Reading" refers to the body of research that has built up over the past 50+ years that supports best practices in reading instruction. ReVAMP Reading is deeply intertwined with the science of reading because it is built on the Lindamood model. The Lindamood Model was "The Science of Reading" BEFORE that term was used to describe best practice.
ReVAMP and the Science of Reading
ReVAMP Word Recognition Instruction teaches students to:
1) Feel how their mouth moves as they learn each sound.
2) Match those sounds to letters and letter
combinations.
3) Learn to analyze words to build sight word
vocabulary.
Summary of How ReVAMP Matches up with The Science of Reading
The structured, sequenced, multi-sensory, and science-based instruction involves:
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Phonological Awareness
- Learning how the mouth moves when we make the sounds of our language.
- Learning how to change sounds within words to improve reading and spelling.
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Decoding and Spelling
- Carefully matching those sounds with letters and letter combinations.
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Sight Recognition
- Analyzing words based on what we have learned to grow sight word vocabulary.
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Vocabulary Knowledge / Morphology
- Building words with word parts, and then applying word parts to deepen meaning.
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Fluency
- Sequenced process that brings together all other aspects of the reading process.
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Comprehension instruction
- Including: visualizing, inferring, making connections, deep text analysis & more.
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