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THE CORE OF OUR ELEMENTARY PROGRAM
Proven and Effective Reading Instruction Strategy
Academic Language Therapy (ALT) is provided as a regular part of the Oak Hill Academy curriculum to students in Core 2 through Middle School, in small groups throughout the day. The curriculum (Take Flight) developed by the staff of the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia and Learning Disorders at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, combines five key components for effective reading instruction:
- Phonemic Awareness – following established procedures for explicitly teaching the relationships between speech-sound production and spelling-sound patterns
- Phonics – providing a systematic approach for single word decoding Fluency – using research-proven directed practice in repeated reading of words, phrases and passages to help students read newly encountered text more fluently
- Fluency – using research-proven directed practice in repeated reading of words, phrases and passages to help students read newly encountered text more fluently
- Vocabulary – featuring multiple word learning strategies (definitional, structural, contextual) and explicit teaching techniques with application in text
- Reading Comprehension – teaching students to explicitly use and articulate multiple comprehension strategies (i.e., cooperative learning, story structure, question generation and answering, summarization and comprehension monitoring
Only teachers who are certified Academic Language Therapists provide this specialized instruction for the students.
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