***Materials must be purchased through the Scottish Rite For Children Dyslexia Educator portal prior to the training***

To meet the needs of the K-1 students who have difficulty learning to read, 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 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 five components are:

1. Alphabet: The identification of letters, sequencing skills and alphabetizing.

2. Letter/Sound Knowledge: The direct instruction of individual letters and sounds, leading to the practice of reading words and sentences.

3. Phonological Awareness: The explicit introduction of the relationships between speech-sound production, from rhyme to spelling.

4. Vocabulary: The direct teaching of strategies using context clues to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words.

5. Comprehension: The explicit teaching of specific learning strategies used to identify the basic components of a story.

Build Can Be Used As:

• The district’s early intervention for students at risk for dyslexia or
• The district’s intervention for kindergarten or first-grade students identified with dyslexia.

General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Interventionists, CALTs, CALPs, Providers of Dyslexia Instruction

Dyslexia
English Language Arts/Reading
Special Education

TTESS 2.4 Differentiation
TTESS 2.5 Monitor and Adjust
TTESS 4.3 Professional Development

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