The Wilson Reading System uses decoding and encoding techniques.
The Wilson Reading System describes itself as a "research-based reading and writing program" and was developed by Barbara Wilson. This system is set up to teach students to read using decoding and encoding techniques beginning with phoneme segmentation, directly teaching the structure of the words with an organized and sequential system. The Wilson Reading System is very interactive between teacher and student and can be very effective in teaching students to read if properly implemented and supported. The system comes with a checklist to ensure proper implementation.
General Portion of Checklist
The general part of the checklist consists of making sure that the teacher has a written plan for each session, with lesson activities presented in their proper order. Other things that are looked for are teacher interaction with students, which should be considerable for the program to be used correctly. The teacher should be assisting students with lessons and providing specific and immediate feedback, using the question method supported by the system. Materials and student notebooks and folders should be well organized and readily available.
Multisensory Lesson Procedures
Teachers and supervisors should check to make sure that the use of card manipulation, tapping of sounds, tile manipulation, sky-writing and scooping story into phrases procedures are being used properly for word structure, spelling, letter formation and reading. This checklist should ideally be kept track of throughout the use of the reading system.
Mastery of Concepts
To check that students are mastering the concepts of the reading system, teachers and supervisors should look for a student's ability to explain structure of words from previous units and the ability to spell and fluently read words from previous units. Teachers should hold students accountable for concepts already learned and keep track of their progress and retention of concepts.
Double Dose Lessons
Teachers and supervisors should ensure that students are given group activity periods daily with the use of the double dose lesson plan in the second tier of the reading system. These groups should be formed and monitored according to all screening processes, tests and assessments, as recommended by the reading system.
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