Why do many students have problems applying comprehension skills and strategies? They may lack input comprehension, which involves the receptive language (listening) network of the brain. During oral and silent reading it is the receptive language areas of the brain that decode words and gives them meaning.

Output (expressive language comprehension) involves higher- level skills and strategies critical to deep meaning, from contextual understanding to prediction and reflection. Both input and output are essential: the brain needs good input before the deeper comprehension processes start. With weak input, words are improperly decoded, misunderstood or processed too slowly.

If your students are not fully responding to reading comprehension instruction or their reading comprehension lags behind listening comprehension, subtle input comprehension issues may be the cause.

The Reading Challenge Game and the Sound Sense Activity Books provide input comprehension practice that significantly improve listening and reading comprehension. literature groups. link

Sound Reading uses a wide range of methods derived from speech therapy and cognitive learning theory, providing research-based instruction without scripted drills. These methods make Sound Reading very easy to teach and they produce maximum results in very little time. Sound Reading instruction is designed using brain-friendly teaching methods, including:

·          Reduced Error Learning: Material learned with few errors is memorized correctly. Sound Reading enhances memory by reducing incorrect responses; thus, it eliminates the self-reinforcement of errors. Instead of struggling, your student will find Sound Reading quite easy.

 ·          Distributed Instruction: Sometimes called spiral instruction, distributed instruction spreads out learning tasks. As a result, students master material indefinitely rather than temporarily.

 ·          Over-learning/Automaticity: Recent research shows that mastery learning may only lead to short and intermediate learning. For long-term learning, students need continued practice beyond the mastery stages, or over-learning. The deepest reading occurs when students are reading automatically. Sound Reading Solutions™ provides practice until the process becomes “too easy” , the way you feel about reading a well -loved book.

 ·          Auditory Interaction: Reading is a receptive (listening) language process. Sound Reading Solutions™ is intensely auditory, heightening the language processes that are the key to literacy.

            Independent Instructional Level: Many students will find Sound Reading “too easy,” difficult for only the most challenged readers. Sound Reading is designed so that learners function at an independent instructional level, where the student is highly successful. Reading improvement is like reading itself — when it is easy, and not frustrating, student performance is accelerated.