Decades after developing PAF, a program that helps every child learn to read, we remain excited and passionate about teaching, because we have found a program that works. We are confident you will see amazing results with all your students. We did not invent Orton-Gillingham instruction, but we have written the most comprehensive, effective, and teacher-friendly classroom adaptation available.
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We have relied on our own teaching experience, the feedback of hundreds of PAF teachers, and the latest scientific research to constantly refine and update the program. Soon the program was being replicated in other districts, and we found ourselves both using it and training other teachers. These impressive results were consistent year after year. By the fourth grade, 98 percent of these children were reading at or above grade level, and none requiredĥ 8 special education services. Each year, we screened kindergarten classes for children who might be at risk for learning disabilities and offered PAF instruction in their regular classrooms. With the encouragement of our school system (we were both together now in New York), we wrote Preventing Academic Failure (PAF) with the hope that regular education teachers would teach all children to read by providing instruction based on Orton-Gillingham techniques in their classrooms.
Most important, we realized that if the instruction was introduced in the primary grades, reading failure actually could be prevented. We developed ways to adapt Orton- Gillingham techniques for classroom use, reaching more children effectively, efficiently, and economically. Orton- Gillingham instruction was designed specifically to be used one-on-one with students with learning disabilities, and it worked! We immediately saw for ourselves that the key to teaching children with learning disabilities is the right type of instruction. Later, when studying for our graduate degrees, we were introduced to the emerging field of learning disabilities and a reading methodology called Orton-Gillingham. Nothing worked, and we were as frustrated as the children. We tried everything we could think of: different reading programs, lunchtime tutoring, reward systems.
From the start, we encountered children who puzzled us children who struggled to read despite their and our best efforts. We began our careers as primary teachers in the public schools of New York City and Boston in the 1960s. It may be very different from other reading programs you have used, but for some children it is the only program that will work. It is based on scientific research and over four decades of classroom experience. 9 Spelling Reading Reinforcement Sample Lesson Sequence INSTRUCTIONAL SEQUENCE Curriculum Overview Preparation for Book A (Levels 1-16) Book A (Levels 17-33) Book B (Levels 34-52) Book C (Levels 53-74) Book D (Levels 75-96) Book E (Levels ) Book F (Levels ) Book G (Levels ) Book H (Levels ) PROFICIENCY TESTS APPENDIX Handwriting Lesson Plans Instructional Sequence at a Glance Rules of Thumb: Principles of English Materials BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEXĤ 7 From the Authors PAF is a reading program written for teachers, by teachers. 2 3 PAF Preventing Academic Failure A Multisensory Curriculum for Teaching Reading, Spelling, and Handwriting Phyllis Bertin Eileen Perlman with the assistance of Elizabeth McGoldrickģ 11 Click on the sections below to review the sample content.
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