Take Flight: A Comprehensive Intervention for Students with Dyslexia (Take Flight)
Take Flight is a two-year curriculum written by the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia and Learning Disorders of the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. Take Flight is designed for use by Certified Academic Language Therapists (CALT). It is intended for small group instruction with no more than six students per class. Take Flight includes 132 lessons for a total of 230 hours of direct, systematic, cumulative, multisensory instruction. Students will meet four times a week for 1 hour.
Take Flight addresses the five components of effective reading instruction identified by the National Reading Panel's research and is a comprehensive intervention for students with dyslexia:
With Take Flight, students will learn all 44 sounds, 96 letter-sound correspondence rules, and the morphology of 87 affixes in the English language. The students will also learn spelling rules for base words and derivatives with additional practice opportunities provided to improve oral reading fluency. Finally, Take Flight introduces comprehension and vocabulary-building strategies for both narrative and expository text in the context of oral reading exercises, preparing students for successful, life-long, independent reading.
Take Flight is a two-year curriculum written by the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia and Learning Disorders of the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. Take Flight is designed for use by Certified Academic Language Therapists (CALT). It is intended for small group instruction with no more than six students per class. Take Flight includes 132 lessons for a total of 230 hours of direct, systematic, cumulative, multisensory instruction. Students will meet four times a week for 1 hour.
Take Flight addresses the five components of effective reading instruction identified by the National Reading Panel's research and is a comprehensive intervention for students with dyslexia:
- Phonemic Awareness—following established procedures for explicitly teaching the relationships between speech-sound production and spelling-sound patterns
- Phonics—providing a systematic approach for single word decoding
- Fluency—using research-proven directed practice in repeated reading of words, phrases, and passages to help students read newly encountered text more fluently
- Vocabulary—featuring multiple word learning strategies (definitional, structural, contextual) and explicit teaching techniques with application in text
- Reading Comprehension—teaching students to explicitly use and articulate multiple comprehension strategies (i.e., cooperative learning, story structure, question generation and answering, summarization and comprehension monitoring)
With Take Flight, students will learn all 44 sounds, 96 letter-sound correspondence rules, and the morphology of 87 affixes in the English language. The students will also learn spelling rules for base words and derivatives with additional practice opportunities provided to improve oral reading fluency. Finally, Take Flight introduces comprehension and vocabulary-building strategies for both narrative and expository text in the context of oral reading exercises, preparing students for successful, life-long, independent reading.