Reading Programs and Reading Tutors

The LiPS ® Phoneme Sequencing Program

The LiPS ® phoneme sequencing program for reading, spelling, and speech provides sensory-cognitive development of Phonemic Awareness—the ability to sequence sounds and letters within words in order to have proficient decoding abilities, be able to self-monitor and self-correct for proficient reading and spelling skills. (Complexity of the LIPS program starts at a single syllable level and advances to a multi-syllable level) Course Outline:

• Set the Climate for LIPS Program
• Color Encoding with Block Manipulatives
• Encoding Pseudo Word Chains with Letter Tiles
• Decoding Pseudo Word Chains with Letter Tiles
• Base Lining for Spelling Multi-Syllable Words
• Decoding Real and Pseudo Word Packets
• Reading in Context

Seeing Stars ® Program

The Seeing Stars ® program provides sensory- cognitive development of Phonemic Awareness and Symbol Imagery – the ability to visualize the identity, number, and sequence of sounds and letters within words – for phonological and orthographical processing in order to anchor and retain words in the visual memory system to increase reading and spelling skills.

• Sound to Symbol consonant and vowel cards
• Symbol Imagery Boxwords (ranging from simple to difficult complexity)
• Syllable Board (from single syllable to multi-syllable for advanced)
• Air write real words in air and work
• Encode Starwords packet
• Decode Starwords packet
• Visual Spelling Chart

Visualizing and Verbalizing for Language Comprehension and Thinking ® Program

Visualizing and Verbalizing for Language Comprehension and Thinking ® program provides sensory-cognitive development of Concept Imagery – the ability to create a visual gestalt (whole) from oral and written language—in order to improve oral language comprehension, reading comprehension, reading recall, problem solving, critical thinking, ability to follow directions, and to aid in self-monitoring and correcting decoding errors. Course Outline:

• Picture to Picture Imaging
• Word Imaging
• Single Sentence Imaging
• Sentence by Sentence Imaging
• Sentence by Sentence Imaging with Higher Order Thinking Skills
• Multiple Sentence Imaging with Higher Order Thinking Skills
• Whole Paragraph Imaging with Higher Order Thinking Skills
• Paragraph by Paragraph Imaging with Higher Order Thinking Skills
• Whole Page Imaging with Higher Order Thinking Skills
• Working Vocabulary Words Receptively and Expressively Each Hour
• Reading in Context Each Hour

Talkies ® Program

The Talkies® program is the primer to the Visualizing and Verbalizing® (V/V®) program for students who need simpler, smaller steps of instruction to establish the imagery-language connection. The goal of Talkies instruction is to develop mental imagery as a base for language comprehension and expression.

Talkies instruction may benefit students with prior third-party diagnoses of expressive language delays or autism spectrum disorders.