BUILD

Empowering At-Risk K-1 Readers with Systematic, Multisensory Interventions for Lasting Literacy Success

The five components of the BUILD program:

What is BUILD Program?

To meet the needs of the K-1 students who have been identified at risk for dyslexia, the staff of the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia and Learning Disorders at Scottish Rite for Children has developed a 100-lesson reading intervention called Build: A K-1 Early Reading Intervention. 

Build is a small group or one-one-one intervention that addresses five specific components of reading intervention. Each component is taught developmentally using a direct, systematic, cumulative, multisensory method of introduction and practice to meet the specific needs of Kindergarten and first grade students struggling in reading.

  • The identification of letters, sequencing skills and alphabetizing.

  • the direct instruction of individual letters and sounds, leading to the practice of reading words and sentences.

  • the explicit introduction of the relationships between speech-sound production, from rhyme to spelling.

  • the direct teaching of strategies using context clues to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words.

  • the explicit teaching of specific learning strategies used to identify the basic components of a story.

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