Teaching Report

Teaching Diaries Report

 

Brief Resume of the Alpha to Omega Programmed

            The said programmed was a one hour weekly lesson. It is said to be a multi-sensory method of teaching. It incorporates reading, writing, and spelling as an integrated programmed.

            At the start of stage one, children like Jo would benefit from the lessons of sequencing, short vowels hard and soft ‘c’ and ‘g’ and wall words, along with the revision of more complex patterns such as consonant blends, vowel digraphs and homophones. Over learning and repetition dealing with grammatical structures are also included in the programmed. To establish rapid recognition of words of sounds, letters, and spelling patterns, dictation is used in isolation and in context. Other activities are included to backed-up the core activities, such as games, worksheets, flashcards, and others.

            The need of visual discrimination exercises are addressed to solved the difficulty with regards to the b/d directionality. An example is the cut-out letters of ‘b’ and ‘d’ out of sandpaper. This will help in the improvement of the child’s skill in rapid and accurate visual discrimination, including the correct recognition of words when reading, and to recall while spelling.

             color blocks are also utilized to assist in the development of visual sequential memory. This is to answer the child’s weakness in recalling words. The exercises expand to cover auditory sequential memory in the latter part of the programmed.

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