Wilson Reading System® is a supplemental reading and writing curriculum designed to promote reading accuracy (decoding) and spelling (encoding) skills for students with word-level deficits. The program is designed to teach phonemic awareness, alphabetic principles (sound-symbol relationship), word study, spelling, sight word instruction, fluency, vocabulary, oral expressive language development, and comprehension.  Saint Francis Elementary School offers this program beginning in Grade 2.

The Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing® (LiPS®) program is a series of overlapping steps to develop phonemic awareness and its application in reading, spelling, and speech. Students are first given training in English phonology through guided discovery. They learn to use sensory information to learn about consonant and vowel sounds. These sounds are then labeled. Labeling the phonemes gives the student additional and important information that provides the instructor with a further avenue for questioning if the student makes an error. Once students have internalized this processing (of labels, sounds, and articulatory feedback), then the letter symbol tiles associated with the phonemes are introduced. The introduction of letters, then, comes after the student has an understanding of phonology. This aspect of the program differs greatly from other phonics instruction. (Truch)

The LiPS program develops phonemic awareness by teaching students to utilize oral-motor movements to attach to sounds that phonemes make within words. Students are also required to manipulate sounds within words. This program is considered a multisensory reading program.

The Lindamood Phonemic Sequencing® (LiPS®) Program (formerly called the ADD Program, Auditory Discrimination in Depth) successfully stimulates phonemic awareness.    Individuals become aware of the mouth actions which produce speech sounds.  This awareness becomes the means of verifying sounds within words and enables individuals to become self-correcting in reading and spelling, and speech.