Seeing Stars for Reading and Spelling
Seeing Stars® for Reading and Spelling
Seeing Stars® is an integrated reading and spelling program for children with special needs. The program helps stabilize phonemic awareness and assists in the development of sight words and spelling. Specific steps of imaging letters for phonemes through multisyllable words helps establish reading and spelling in context.
The Seeing Stars® manual reads like a novel as it gives theory and specific steps to teach a new program created from years of clinical experience. Laughter and tears will fill your heart as you watch “Buzz” learn to: (1) image letters from single syllables through multisyllables, (2) refine his phonemic awareness, (3) memorize sight words, and (4) learn to read and spell accurately and fluently in context.
This program will help your child who has:
A cause of difficulty in establishing sight words and contextual fluency is difficulty in visualizing letters in words. This is called weak symbol imagery. Symbol imagery can be defined as the ability to visualize the identity, number, and sequence of sounds and letters within words. A significant number of students–even those who have well-developed phonemic awareness–have difficulty with rapidly perceiving sounds in words and thus are slow to self-correct their reading errors. Their spelling is often phonetically accurate, but they can’t remember the visual patterns of words.
The pages of this book contain theory and techniques to practice this very important aspect of cognition–symbol imagery. The need for imaging in comprehension, and imaging in reading and spelling words is a significant one. This program recognizes the importance of imagery and helps you to incorporate it in your teaching. Anyone can learn to read fluently and confidently in context. It is all a matter of integrating imagery with language.
The complete Seeing Stars kit includes: Seeing Stars® Manual, Consonant and Vowel Cards, Individual Sounds and Symbols Charts, 2500 Syllable Cards for Single and Multisyllable Words , Individual Syllable Card Charts, New 1000 “Star Words” Sight Vocabulary List, Individual Star Word Charts, Syllable Boards, Prefix and Suffix Cards, Visual Spelling Charts, and Colored Star Stickers to Track Progress