People with dyslexia learn to read, but do so using an inefficient process, requiring a higher exertion of effort, intelligence, and motivation.

SpellRead has been specifically constructed to provide remediation for the phonological weaknesses in people with dyslexia and other learning differences.

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SpellRead consists of 105 lessons broken into three phases. Success in each lesson and phase depends on mastering the preceding lessons and phases. As students’ word-level skills, fluency, automaticity, vocabulary, and comprehension develop, the emphasis, content, pacing, and complexity of reading instruction shifts.
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As students gain word-reading efficiency, the effort to decode decreases (because it has become automatic) and the contribution of background knowledge, vocabulary, and broader language skills increases.

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SpellRead Lessons

Each SpellRead lesson follows the same format and consists of three parts:

• Linguistic Foundations
• Active Reading
• Writing Connections

1. Linguistic Foundations:

Lessons begins with 35 minutes of Linguistic Foundations:
- Phonics and phonemic awareness activities
- Fast paced and kinesthetic

 These activities systematically teach students all the sounds and spellings that are the foundation of the phonetic and alphabetic system, thus improving their decoding abilities. ​

2. Active Reading:

Then move on to 19 minutes of reading:
- Students apply the skills they are learning in Linguistic Foundations 
- Students engage in oral reading practice
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The instructor guides students to use strategies such as retelling, summarizing and determining the meaning of new vocabulary. Thus improving their fluency and comprehension. ​

3. Writing Connections:

During the final part of each lesson: 
- Students engage in purposeful writing using their sound letter knowledge 
- Students write about what they just read, recalling story events, retrieving facts, sequencing, summarizing and determining the main idea.

With continued practice they gain confidence, become more aware of writing conventions and apply them to their writing.