It is a non-phonic solution for your lowest level readers

accelerating the learning curve of elementary, middle or high school students identified as: Chronic Non-Responders” Failure Free Reading specializes in….5 to 4 grade levels behind !! Failure Free Reading Jumpstarts Non-responders stuck at 0-15%!

PD Stands for ‘Phonetically Deaf’ Born with a “Tin Ear” for Sounds Auditory Dyslexia Show very little to no success with Phonics Need an Alternative to “Skills First” approach Visual Learners 3 Characteristics of Chronic Non-Responders

Stands for ‘Environmentally Denied’ ED Low income families without means to provide academic support Parents with very little formal education Academic language not spoken frequently in the home Parents/Guardians unable to spend time with students on homework and discussing issues of an academic nature that will help expand their academic abilities 3 Characteristics of Chronic Non-Responders

Stands for ‘Language Deprived’ LD Many come from homes where Standard English is not always spoken. ELL Students that are exposed to very little academic language 3 Characteristics of Chronic Non-Responders

Research Fact How many times does an average students need to see a word to gain independent recognition? The average student needs to see a word between times prior to independent recognition (McKeown, Beck, Omanson and Pople, 1985). How many times does a poor reader need to see a word to gain independent recognition? Poor readers needed to see words an average of 76 times or more before they could recognize each word in isolation for three consecutive times (Hargis, 1988).

The Failure Free Core Academic English Reading Series… A Complete Print and Software Curriculum Designed to Teach 27 Stories of Increasing English Language Complexity

Elementary Solution Elementary Solution FFR can take a student from: 0.0 to 4.5 Reading Level in less than 180 lessons!

Secondary Solution 6 th -12 th grade Struggling Readers

Secondary Solution Secondary Solution The Secondary Solution consists of the upper level Orange & Teal levels found in the Elementary Solution combined with all of the Verbal Master levels

Verbal Master Verbal Master An Accelerated Standard English Vocabulary Program for Grades 6-12 Teaching Vocabulary, Spelling, Written English Composition, Literacy and Comprehension

Verbal Master Verbal Master I 6th-7th GradeVerbal Master II 8 th -9 th GradeVerbal Master III 10 th -11 th GradeVerbal Master IV SAT/ACT

Life Skills Life Skills Ages yrs Reading as Low as 0.0

Life Skills

What Makes Failure Free Reading So Different?... First intervention to reduce reading text to its simplest form by controlling for : Abundant Repetition Basic Sentence Structure Understandable Story Content Non- Phonic-Vocabulary based

Repetition is the Key! Average Student =15-20 times Poor Readers= 76+ times

Teacher-led Language/Literacy Station Print Reinforcement ActivitiesComputer-led Online Station Three Station Instructional Procedure Small Group Minutes Minutes How is Failure Free Reading Taught?

How Do We Begin? - Reading Inventory (optional) 1-Diagnostic Placement Test 2-Story Pretest

Example of Teacher Instruction- Orange level

Teacher Instruction- VM Verbal Master instruction is organized by Units, with five individual Lessons per Unit. On the first day of a unit you introduce the pronunciation of all five words for the week first. Each lesson introduces one new word. Instruction is flexible: you can teach one, or more than one lesson, each day depending on the time available for instruction and your students’ ability

VM-Teacher Instruction Example

Teacher-led Language/Literacy Station Print Reinforcement Activities Computer-led Station Two Station Instructional Procedure for Verbal Master for Verbal Master Small Group Minutes Minutes Days 1-5 Day 5 Print review at the end of the week after teacher review and computer review lessons 3 station on Day 5

Computer Instruction

JR Preteaching Vocabulary Software Example

JR Word Recognition

JR Reinforcement Activities

Additional Features Spanish Instruction Directions with Subtitles iPad compatible Classic version for older computers ASL Video Instruction

Verbal Master Software Sequence ◦ Cluster Pretest- synonym, definition, fill in the blank, comprehension ◦ Words Instruction ◦ Pronunciation ◦ Definition ◦ Context ◦ Question ◦ Spelling ◦ Unit Review- synonym, definition, fill in the blank, comprehension ◦ Cluster Story & Posttest

Verbal Master Cluster Pretest Software Example

Verbal Master Software Example

Life Skills

Life Skills Instruction Talking Book Software Example

Life Skills Instruction Spelling

Independent Print Reinforcement Activities

Independent Print Activities Examples

REPORTS Diagnostic Prescriptive Report

Give the Diagnostic Placement at the End of the Year to Record Growth

School Progress Report

Donna Vorenkamp M.Ed., NBCT