Discover our curriculums

At Northland dyslexia, we offer training for a wide variety of curriculums designed to meet your students where they are at. Many of these are one day workshops that can be utilized to further equip educators to teach to a multitude of student literacy needs.

Scottish Rite Curriculums

Explore the reading curriculums and programs we offer written by Scottish Rite for Children.

BUILD (GRADES K-1)

One Day training
Qualifications: Certified Teachers

To meet the needs of the K-1 students who have been identified at risk for dyslexia, the staff of the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia and Learning Disorders at Scottish Rite for Children has developed a 100-lesson reading intervention called Build: A K-1 Early Reading Intervention. Build is a small group intervention that addresses five specific components of reading intervention. Each component is taught developmentally using a direct, systematic, cumulative, multisensory method of introduction and practice to meet the specific needs of Kindergarten and first grade students struggling in reading.

The five components are:

Alphabet: the identification of letters, sequencing skills and alphabetizing.
Letter/sound knowledge: the direct instruction of individual letters and sounds, leading to the practice of reading words and sentences.
Phonological awareness: the explicit introduction of the relationships between speech-sound production, from rhyme to spelling.
Vocabulary: the direct teaching of strategies using context clues to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words.
Comprehension: the explicit teaching of specific learning strategies used to identify the basic components of a story.

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TAKE FLIGHT (2-8)

Qualifications: Certified Teachers with Masters
2-Year Training

Take Flight: A Comprehensive Intervention for Students with Dyslexia is a two-year curriculum written by the staff of the Center for Dyslexia at Scottish Rite for Children. Take Flight builds on the success of the three previous dyslexia intervention programs developed by the staff of Scottish Rite: Alphabetic Phonics, Dyslexia Training Program and Scottish Rite for Children Literacy Program.

Take Flight contains the five components of effective reading instruction identified by research from the National Reading Panel.

Take Flight addresses each component by:

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)

Take Flight was designed for use by Academic Language Therapists for children with dyslexia ages 7 and older. The two-year program is designed to be taught four days per week (60 minutes per day) or five days per week (45 minutes per day). It is intended for one-on-one or small group instruction with no more than six students per class.

Take Flight is taught daily in the Center for Dyslexia’s lab school where students from the surrounding Dallas-Fort Worth area who are identified in our diagnostic center attend classes daily. The lab school gives the Scottish Rite staff the opportunity to learn from students with dyslexia and improve Take Flight strategies.

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JET (HIGH SCHOOL)

Qualifications: For certified Dyslexia Therapists
One day training

A Fast Paced Reading Intervention is a one-year curriculum written by the staff of the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia and Learning Disorders at Scottish Rite for Children. Jet builds on the success of the four previous dyslexia intervention programs developed by the staff of Scottish Rite for Children: Alphabetic Phonics, the Dyslexia Training Program, Scottish Rite for Children Literacy Program, and Take Flight Elementary.

Jet was design for:

individuals with dyslexia fourteen years and older
one-on-one or small group instruction (no more than 6 students)
use by a Certified Academic Language Therapist
four days a week - sixty minutes per day for one year or five days a week - forty-five minutes per day for one year

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TURBO START (ALL AGES)

Qualifications: Certified Language Therapists

Turbo Start: A Dyslexia Curriculum for Newly Identified Students with Dyslexia Turbo Start: A Dyslexia Curriculum for Newly Identified Students with Dyslexia is a nine-week, evidence-based dyslexia intervention that can be used as part of a standard protocol dyslexia instruction program. The Turbo Start program provides a jump start for newly identified students with dyslexia who need comprehensive dyslexia intervention while awaiting placement in an intervention group. Turbo Start addresses five specific evidence-based components of reading intervention. Each component is taught developmentally, using a direct, systematic, cumulative, multisensory method of introduction and practice to meet specific needs of newly identified students with dyslexia. Turbo Start is a complementary dyslexia instruction program, which provides comprehensive, intensive, evidence-based instruction for students who are identified off-cycle, and addresses characteristic weaknesses of students with dyslexia to support optimal growth once placed in a sequential reading intervention program.

Key Features:

The Turbo Start program was developed for use as an off-cycle, drop-in dyslexia program.

The content of Turbo Start is derived from principles of evidence-based dyslexia instruction and provides foundational training in five specific components of reading intervention.

Turbo Start provides flexibility in the intervention timeline to prepare students to enter dyslexia services in a group setting with fidelity.

Turbo Start was designed for:

Newly identified individuals with dyslexia of all ages.
One-on-one or small group instruction (no more than six students).
Use by a Certified Academic Language Therapist.
Four days per week for 60 minutes per day or Five days per week for 45 minutes per day

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RITE FLIGHT (GRADES 1-8)

Qualifications: Certified Teachers
One Day Training

Rite Flight: A Classroom Reading Rate Program and Rite Flight: A Classroom Comprehension Program are curricula written by the staff of the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia & Learning Disorders at Scottish Rite for Children. Rite Flight programs equip teachers and reading specialists to help students increase their reading rate, fluency, and comprehension.

Rite Flight programs were designed to be Tier II interventions for use by classroom teachers, reading specialists and special education teachers with first through eighth grade students. They can be used as supplemental or intervention instruction for individuals, small groups or the whole classroom.

These programs can be used in conjunction with a variety of core reading curricula that employ evidence-based components in phonemic awareness and phonics. Rite Flight programs may be used for more intensive instruction within the framework of a Response-to-Intervention (RTI) model.

When used as a supplement, Rite Flight programs should be integrated into a core reading program to adequately address fluency and/or comprehension.

Rite Flight: Rate differs from standard reading fluency instruction by using a method of instruction designed to promote the recognition of letter clusters within words. Students follow a repeated reading schedule that introduces the same words in isolation, in phrases and finally in stories. As a fluency component of primary grade reading remediation and instruction, Rite Flight: Rate should be introduced early in the course of instruction in letter-sound recognition and should not be delayed until after phonics has been taught.

The instructional strategies of Rite Flight: Comprehension may serve as a component of intensified reading instruction within the framework of an RTI model. The decision to use the curriculum as an intervention for struggling readers should be guided by an evaluation of possible causes of reading comprehension problems.

Rite Flight programs are not intended to be used in place of a comprehensive intervention for students identified with dyslexia, as each addresses only one component of reading.

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Grammar Case Workshops

THE GRAMMAR CASE

One Day training
Qualifications: Certified Teachers

This is a full multisensory writing program for kids who struggle to write. It also comes with full resources for your teachers to start teaching it immediately. The program also comes with a printable student book, so you never have to purchase the student workbooks.

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Scottish Rite Curriculums

Grammar Case Workshops

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