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SpellRead P.A.T. (Phonological Auditory Training)

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SpellRead P.A.T. is not a reading tutoring program but instead, a phonologically based intervention program, providing direct and systematic instruction in the following: 

  • Phonemic awareness - noticing, identifying, and manipulating the sounds  of the spoken English language. 
  • Phonics - learning how letters and letter groups represent the sounds of the spoken English language, sounding out words, spelling, reading sight words, vocabulary building, and reading comprehension.
  • Fluency training - practicing reading fluidly and accurately. 
  • Application - practice in applying these skills in reading and writing. 
  • Graduated reading curriculum
SpellRead P.A.T. provides a systematic way of identifying the initial skills and areas of deficiencies and provides continuous testing throughout the various phases of the intervention to assess the effectiveness of the program.

Battery of tests include:
  • Gray Oral Reading Test
  • Woodcock Johnson Reading Mastery Tests (Word Attack and Word ID)
  • Schonell Spelling Test
  • Spell Read P.A.T. phonological skills battery, which assesses the following:
  1. analysis
  2. synthesis
  3. listening
  4. vowel mastery
  5. consonant mastery
  6. pseudoword spelling test
  7. auditory memory
SpellRead is carried out in three phases totaling 105 lessons and typically requires 100 to 120 hours of intervention to complete all three phases. Parent involvement is critical, as parents reinforce at home the activities covered in their SpellRead sessions.

Phase A

  • Introduces each of the 44 sounds of the English language (18 vowels & 26 consonants).
  • Begins with Consonant-Vowel syllables (CV), moves to Vowel-Consonant syllables (VC), and then to Consonant-Vowel-Consonant syllables (CVC).
  • Emphasis in Phase A is on mastery, making learned sounds complete, secure, and automatic.
  • Reinforcement of reading intervention is carried out with reading materials, phonological activities, and writing activities.

Phase B

  • Introduces and teaches the secondary spellings and consonant blends.
  • Develops auditory-visual automaticity at the two-syllable level.
  • Introduces syllabication, where the student learns to identify syllables.
  • Emphasis in Phase B, again, is on mastery, making learned sounds complete, secure, and automatic.
  • Reinforcement of reading intervention is still carried out with reading materials, phonological activities, and writing activities.

Phase C

  • Continues to develop syllabication skills beyond two syllables.
  • Introduces the common clusters (e.g., -tion, -tious, -tient, -ture)
  • Introduces pronunciation and spelling of verb endings (e.g., -ed,      -ing).
  • Reinforcement of reading intervention continues with reading materials, phonological activities, and writing activities.
Call Teresita Lanza, M.Ed., Director of Spell Read Programming, to schedule an initial assessment and for further information. Visit www.spellreadofsouthflorida.com for details on the intervention program.