LINDAMOOD-BELL Reading Program
Overview
Johnson City Schools has entered into a partnership with the Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes Organization out of San Luis Obispo, California to provide intensive reading interventions to students at Mountain View Elementary, IndianTrailMiddle School and ScienceHillHigh School 8th grade. The program involves extensive assessment and prescriptive instruction using one or a combination of three interventions which assists students in comprehension, decoding, and reading fluency. Fifty-seven teachers were trained in the Lindamood-Bell process in June and September of 2006. In January 2007 at least one Lindamood-Bell intensive class was added at each of the remaining seven elementary schools. During the week of June 25, 2007 an additional 58 teachers were trained in Lindamood-Bell strategies.
Description of the Program
School officials chose to implement the Human Resource Model of Lindamood-Bell. Two consultants moved to Johnson City in August of 2006 to assist with assessing students and developing programming. They constructed lesson plans, modeled interventions, and assisted teachers with providing the program. Intense instruction was provided for a minimum of one hour per day. It was anticipated remediation would take from 70-90 hours of instruction per student to increase grade level proficiency. As students completed remediation expectations, others were assessed for the process.
Lindamood-Bell is a prescriptive program which employs a Cascade of Interventions for Reading Outcomes. It is researched based through analysis of students who receive instruction in 39 learning centers across the United States, one in Great Britain, and several school systems across the United States.
PA is phonemic awareness. SI is symbol imagery, and CI is cognitive integration providing visual images to sounds and words.
Evidence of Success of the Program
Results are provided for the focus schools of Mountain View Elementary, IndianTrailMiddle School and ScienceHillHigh School’s eighth grade. As indicated in the charts above, students increased as much as 23 percentile points in decoding.
When looking at results of twenty (20) eighth graders in the program, phonemic awareness, word attack, word recognition, and symbol imagery rose dramatically. This represents an increase of four grade levels for some students.
In addition to the intense interventions, approximately 400 students were provided Lindamood-Bell techniques as part of their regular reading instruction.
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