MULTILIT Reading Tutor Program
The MULTILIT Reading Tutor Program (Revised) caters for students who have not acquired the basic skills needed to become functional readers. The program is designed to be used with individual students, on a one-to-one basis, by mainstream teachers, support teachers, parents, volunteer tutors, speech pathologists, educational psychologists and private tutors.
Children who have failed to learn to read in the first few years of schooling need intensive, systematic reading instruction if they are not to fall further behind, or even become complete non-readers.
Key Features:
Research shows that the most effective programs of reading instruction for low-progress readers involve intensive, systematic and explicit instruction in three main areas:
- ‘phonics’ (or word attack skills);
- sight words recognition; and
- supported book reading.
MiniLit early literacy intervention program
This is a reading program targeting at-risk and/or struggling early readers, in the latter half of the first or in the second year of schooling. Predicated on the same principles as MULTILIT (structured, systematic and explicit teaching in phonics, sight words and reading of connected text), it has an added focus on phonemic awareness in the first level of the program. The program is delivered in groups of up to four children and has scripted lessons, incorporating the teaching of core reading skills.
Key Features:
- a systematic and explicit model for teaching reading skills based on sound scientific research
- a cost-effective small group (up to four students) instruction program with low ongoing operating costs
- designed for Year 1, may be appropriate for “at risk” Kindergarten, and some struggling Year 2 students
- easy to adopt in a classroom, equipping teachers / teacher aides to deliver the program over 20 weeks
See http://www.multilit.com/Home/tabid/1354/Default.aspx for more information
