teach diacritical marks for vowels, consonants, and syllablesĬheck out this post about my favorite multisensory spelling strategy for spelling lists.These are pretty pricey though so if you can’t afford them, then try adding in the activities below to help your struggling learner(s). Some popular multisensory programs include Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, Barton, Lindamood-Bell, and Woodin Math. I have used these methods in the classroom, tutoring one on one, and homeschooling my daughter. Whether you are a classroom teacher, tutor, or parent you can incorporate multisensory activities on a daily basis. According to Stephen Apkon, true literacy is always a two-way transaction. Literacy can be defined as proficiency, or the ability to comprehend or articulate (Apkon, page 37). So something like tracing and saying the sound at the same time is multisensory, whereas tracing letters alone is not. Learning and literacy are closely related. The key is to use 2 or more senses at the same time. Multisensory teaching doesn’t simply mean you have students use pictures, show video, or have them move while they are working. In my tutoring practice, I have had students who could not say the sounds for all the letters to reading at a first grade level within 6 months using the methods from these programs! When I worked at a school for dyslexia, these were the programs we used because they were the most effective for these students. Orton-Gillingham and Lindamood-Bell are two of my favorite multisensory reading programs to use with struggling readers. Links are consistently made between the visual (language we see), auditory (language we hear), and kinesthetic-tactile (language symbols we feel) pathways in learning to read and spell. Multisensory learning involves the use of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic-tactile pathways simultaneously to enhance memory and learning of written language. Effective instruction for students with dyslexia is also explicit, direct, cumulative, intensive, and focused on the structure of language. Multisensory teaching is one important aspect of instruction for dyslexic students that is used by clinically trained teachers. Because of this, it is recommended by the International Dyslexia Association and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Multisensory learning has a lot of research supporting it. Most multi sensory learning programs integrate visual, tactile, auditory, and kinesthetic activities. It allows gradual development of the student reader’s understanding, slowing down the analysis process by making it more deliberate, and enabling students to build their own interpretation, to rely on their own powers of critical thinking.
It has nothing to do with learning styles. Visual literacy is invaluable to reader development in so many ways. Multisensory learning is essentially the theory that most individuals learn best when using more than one sense.
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