The Program

Fluency Builder:

Reading improves with Fluency Builder

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Reading improves by 7.5 months after a 3 months

Activities

Sounds Sort

Improves phonological awareness by sorting words by their sound.

For example Bat, "Ah" (/æ/): and Lady, "Ay" (/eɪ/): .

Children who struggle to read find this activity difficult.

Phoneme Manipulation

Learn how to change words and identify phonemes through pattern matching. This helps Improve reading and spelling.

Segment Words

Practise building words up using indiviual sounds.

Segment Words

Practise building words up using indiviual sounds.


The Science

Fluency Builder improves the Phonological Deficit.

Reading is done in the brain. But which parts? MRI scans show that dyslexic people use different parts of the brain to read than non-dyslexic people do.

Numerous scientific studies have proven brain plasticity – that the brain can be changed by practising and repeating tasks.

Scientific studies into children with dyslexia have proven that repeating activities that activate the part of the brain that non-dyslexics use when reading, changes their brain so that they read more like a non-dyslexic person does.

MRI scans have found differences in the brain between people with and without dyslexia.

Image courtesy of Society for Neuroscience and Guinevere Eden

Fluency Builder contains activities which have been proven to activate the parts of the brain needed to read fluently. These activities are: phonological awareness, rapid automatic naming, phoneme manipulation, segmenting, auditory discrimination and morpheme mapping.