LiteraSee's mission is to help you remediate your student's reading and spelling struggles. With Orton-Gillingham-based literacy teaching materials and visual aids, LiteraSee has helped children in kindergarten through eighth grade since 2014.
LiteraSee strives to simplify teaching reading and spelling with streamlined lesson plans and effective teaching tools. With a predictable ten-step lesson sequence, illustrated instructions, and video tutorials, scripted prompts are unnecessary! LiteraSee's learning platform is unique due to the many creative spelling strategies, memorable illustrations, vowel team storyboards, and engaging games.
LiteraSee is effective! (Please see testimonials under the MORE tab.) The Orton-Gillingham approach to teaching literacy is science-based and has been shown to remediate reading and spelling struggles. LiteraSee's scope and teaching methodology are those specified in The Gillingham Manual. Gillingham, Anna, and Bessie W. Stillman. The Gillingham Manual: Remedial Training for Children with Specific Disability in Reading, Spelling, and Penmanship. 8th ed., Educators Publishing Service, 1997.
About LiteraSee Concepts Illustrated:
- LiteraSee Concepts adheres to evidence-based interventions that explicitly and systematically teach literacy concepts through multisensory learning.
- Phonics, syllable division/syllable types, and the study of morphology (the smallest part of a word with meaning) are taught in order of complexity and occurrence. We teach letters in a science-based sequence and begin reading and writing as soon as enough letters are learned to form words and decodable sentences. Early lessons in syllable division and types enable students to tackle multisyllabic words with predictable vowel sounds. In level one, students begin the study of affixes and base words to create a fundamental understanding of word construction and meaning.
- While LiteraSee lessons are structured, sequential, and cumulative, flexibility is essential for your students. You may need to repeat lessons, skip known concepts, or jump ahead to a specific concept and then return. For tutors or parents with older students, lessons include optional advanced insights starting in Level One.
- LiteraSee Lessons include basic writing instruction and creative spelling strategies.
- Knowledge of English language origins creates engagement and curiosity. Etymology (the study of language origins) is essential to read advanced text with excellent comprehension and is also helpful in spelling complex words. For example, there are eight ways to spell long |u|. We base our spelling decision on word placement and origin.
With appropriate resources and practice, practice, practice, your students will learn how words work!
