Introduction

Welcome to the website for Reading Rescue Ontario, which is a non-profit organization devoted to teaching reading.  We specialize in working with children and adults who have Dyslexia or Learning Disabilities.

 

The program was designed by Linda Soehner B.A., M.Ed.  It is a combination of old practices which have been modified to suit these particular students, and new methods influenced by “Overcoming Dyslexia’ by Sally Shaywitz, ‘The Brain that Changes Itself’ by Norman Doidge, and the research of Marcel Just on using the plasticity of the brain to gain an educational improvement.  (‘Neuropsychologia’, Aug. 2008)

 

This program is sequential, well organized, and easy to follow.

It can be taught by a teacher, tutor, a school volunteer, or a parent.

Up to this date, we have not had a student who did not make substantial gains, provided the program was followed.

 

Part One of the Program called ‘Everyone’s a Reader’ contains a phonics section, which includes initial and final consonants, short vowels, long vowels, digraphs, blends, as well as some basic phonics and spelling rules, plus compound words.

 

The sight word vocabulary section focuses on twenty basic sight word lists and ways to make it easier to learn them.  After these are learned, sight words will come from the reading books. 

 

The reading section gives instructions on how to teach reading from the beginning.  It contains reading strategies, contractions, punctuation, and ideas on how to solve reading problems.  There is also a section on what to do after reading.  We aim to get the student reading at a T Level, at least.

 

Part Two of the Program will not be taught until the student is in Grade 6 or above.  It contains sections on syllabification, some more obscure phonics, prefixes, spelling rules, and suffixes.  We aim to get the student reading right through to a Z Level.

 

Please watch a speech prepared by a graduate of the program  - click on link below:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vtVfO4x7ik

 

 

Reading Rescue Ontario

Everyone is a Reader