Multisensory Reading Instruction

Multisensory reading instruction refers to a set of instructional strategies that focuses on the following essential components identified by current research to be the most effective in teaching reading.  These strategies are used daily with your child with special needs.

Essential Components

• Phonological Processing

• Alphabetic Principle

• Syllabication

• Automaticity

• Fluency

• Vocabulary

• Comprehension

Instructional Strategies

• Simultaneous  use of all learning pathways: (visual, auditory, kinesthetic-tactile)

• Systematic and cumulative scope and sequence

• Explicit teaching

• Diagnostic and prescriptive teaching

• Synthetic and analytic teaching of how parts work together

A website to visit that offers additional information is http://www.nationalreadingpanel.org/.