spellwise
Intervention
Spellwise
Years/Age range
Y1-5
Type of children
Struggling with phonic blending, reading, writing and spelling
Child/Adult ratio
1:1 or small group
Length of intervention
7 months
Brief description
The scheme uses a highly structured, cumulative, multi-sensory teaching approach. Memory deficits are targeted through an emphasis on visualisation, by linking pictures to phonemes, sounds and mnemonics, and cementing new learning with handwriting tasks and games. Teaching progresses at the child’s pace and the step-by-step process ensures that sounds are learned and processed thoroughly so there are no gaps in their sound knowledge. The scheme includes 22 specially written graded reading story books, tailored to the phonics training. The first book contains only extremely simple high frequency words. The vocabulary of the books focuses on CVC word building and introduces 31 irregular High Frequency Words through mnemonic cards. All the materials are contained in one Spellwise Box.
Effectiveness
For reading comprehension in Y1-5: useful