If your child is struggling with reading in kindergarten or first grade, please don’t worry. There is a program called Build: A K-1 Early Reading Intervention that can help. It’s designed to give your child the extra support they need to succeed and feel confident in their abilities.
This program is specifically designed to provide support to students in Kindergarten and first grade who are at risk of developing dyslexia. Build comprises 100 reading lessons delivered in small groups and focuses on five key reading areas. The reading intervention follows a direct, systematic, cumulative, and multisensory approach to teaching, with the aim of meeting the unique needs of struggling students and helping them develop their reading skills effectively. Build: A K-1 Early Reading Intervention was created by The Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia and Learning Disorders at Scottish Rite for Children.
The five components OF BUILD: A K-1 EARLY READING INTERVENTION:
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The ability to identify letters, sequencing skills, and alphabetizing.
Letter/sound knowledge
The direct instruction of individual letters and sounds, leading to the practice of reading words and sentences.
Phonological awareness
The explicit introduction of the relationships between speech-sound production, from rhyme to spelling.
Vocabulary
The direct teaching of strategies using context clues to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words.
Comprehension
The explicit teaching of specific learning strategies used to identify the basic components of a story.
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