Multisensory Word Study
Parent University
April 26, 2016
Jennifer Ascrizzi
Jessica Lacasse
Karen Pulgrano
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The goal is to teach our children to become word solvers...
to read for meaning and to communicate in writing. (M.
Trehearne)
What is Multisensory?
Instruction that involves all major pathways to the brain:
VAKT
Visual
Auditory
Kinesthetic
Tactile
Multisensory helps to get information into the brain in as
many ways as possible.
Why Multisensory?
● Kids learn in many different ways.
● Multisensory instruction teaches to more
than one sense at a time.
● Multisensory instruction gives kids more
than one way to make connections and learn
concepts.
People Remember...
10% of what they read
20% of what they hear
30% of what they see
50% of what they see and hear
70% of what they see and say
90% of what they say and do
Multisensory Word Study is...
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Explicit
Systematic
Sequential
Cumulative
Multisensory Strategies
Visual (V)
Phonemic Awareness (A, KT)
Card Pack (V, A)
Blending drill (V, A)
Fingerspelling (A, K)
Trace and say (V, A, KT)
spoil
Red Words
Red words don’t follow a spelling pattern or
rule and therefore need to be stored in our
visual memory for instant recognition.
Having a strong sight word recognition
increases reading fluency.
Fingerspelling
Tracing red words
Students trace and say new sounds in sand
Students trace and say
words as they read
Prefixes, Suffixes & Roots
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Beginning in first grade, students learn key
word parts that enable them to master new
words that are semantically connected
Students learn to examine new words for
familiar parts
Many opportunities to combine and create
new words from the parts they are taught
Activities are vocabulary and/or meaning
based - breaking apart or putting together
words, using affixes/roots to deduce
definitions, and using context clues
2016-2017 Curriculum Overview
K
Initial and final consonant sounds, short vowels, blending and segmenting, consonant digraphs
1
Short vowels, beginning and ending consonant blends, digraphs, short vowel protectors, magic e,
vowel teams, r-controlled vowels, compound words, VC/CV syllable cutting pattern, beginning
suffixes
2
Long vowels, r-controlled vowels, other vowel sounds, triple blends, soft c and g, short vowel
protectors, syllable cutting patterns: VC/CV, V/CV, spelling rules: doubling rule and drop e,
beginning prefixes and suffixes
3
Review of 5 syllable types, silent consonant teams, frequent endings, schwa, review and new
learning of vowel sounds, including less common patterns, spelling rules: doubling, drop e,
change y and keep y, syllable cutting patterns with cLe and VC/V, additional prefixes and suffixes
4
Review of spelling rules and syllable cutting patterns, frequent endings, beginning Greek and
Latin roots, advanced prefixes and suffixes
5
Review of spelling rules and syllable cutting patterns, V/V, additional Greek and Latin roots,
advanced prefixes and suffixes
How To Help Your Child
Encourage your child to trace and say the
sounds, or break off a familiar word part, when
reading
Support spelling by reminding your child to
segment sounds or syllables on their fingers as
they write
Practice reading and spelling of non-phonetic
red words
When reading with your child, help them to
find or discover new words with their weekly
word study pattern(s) or red words