Take Flight
A Comprehensive Intervention for Students with Dyslexia
What is Take Flight?
Take Flight: A Comprehensive Intervention for Students with Dyslexia is a two-year curriculum written by the staff of the Center for Dyslexia at Scottish Rite for Children.
Take Flight builds on the success of the three previous dyslexia intervention programs developed by the staff of Scottish Rite: Alphabetic Phonics, Dyslexia Training Program and Scottish Rite for Children Literacy Program.
Take Flight contains the five components of effective reading instruction identified by research from the National Reading Panel.
The 5 components of the Take Flight program:
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following established procedures for explicitly teaching the relationships between speech sound production and spelling-sound patterns.
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providing a systematic approach for single word decoding
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using research-proven directed practice in repeated reading of words, phrases and passages to help students read newly encountered text more fluently
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featuring multiple word learning strategies (definitional, structural, contextual) and explicit teaching techniques with application in text
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teaching students to explicitly use and articulate multiple comprehension strategies (i.e., cooperative learning, story structure, question generation and answering, summarization and comprehension monitoring)
Take Flight was designed for use by Academic Language Therapists or a Dyslexia Therapist for children with dyslexia ages 7 and older. The two-year program is designed to be taught four days per week (60 minutes per day) or five days per week (45 minutes per day). It is intended for one-on-one or small group instruction with no more than six students per class.
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