The Progress & Performance of cognitive and phonological training for this level of the MD4 Reading program are shown below by training area. To view all skills trained in each individual area please see the "Skill Training by Area" below.
Area 1 - Optic > Visual Perception
Student continues to build on existing visual perception skills and the accurate perception of longer strings of data. Data other than letters has been introduced specifically shapes and student has achieved a more advanced skill in differentiating a difference between complex shapes. Over the course of training in this level, the student has been able to demonstrate that they can successfully, in a specific amount of time, recognized and differentiate letters and shapes.
Area 2 - Recall > Sequencing & Tracking
Student continues to grow their sequencing and memory skills and is becoming more proficient in their ability to link up to nine sets of related words together and move those words into working memory. The ability to correctly sequence letters continues to grow and the student is demonstrating these abilities at a higher level of difficulty and complexity and in a shorter amount of time.
Area 3 - Array > Visual & Auditory Memory
Student continues to build strength in strengthen their immediate, short term and long term auditory sequential memory and demonstrated that they have an initial ability to retain three pieces of information that they have heard only once for a limited amount of time and replicate that data in its correct sequential order three times while experiencing distraction. Iso-sensory techniques have been employed in this process.
Area 4 - Audio > Phonological Awareness & Memory
Student continues to build skills in the area of recognizing individual syllables and using those syllables to identify the words that these syllables form. Multi-sensory tool are being employed to assist in this process. Student may not be completely independent in this area at this time but are beginning to gain proficiency that can be translated to other words containing the same syllables.
Area 5 - Tactile > Visual Motor Integration
Student has begun to build basic skills in the area of moving an object to a specific place in space and repeating that process with additional shapes to form a larger object. These skills are critical to both the reading and writing process. At this time, the integration process is limited to relatively short movements.
Area 6 - Bamboozle > Eidetic Processing
Student has mastered and been able to retain a list of forty very basic irregular words of a third grade level or below bringing their total words mastered to one hundred and twenty. Student has not been allowed to misspell these words and has been strictly restrained from ingraining incorrect spellings. Multi-sensory techniques have been employed in this process.
Area 7 - Harmony > Phonics
Student has begun to master the use of long vowels in basic words and has shown proficiency in identifying words containing long vowels. Multi-sensory techniques have been used in this process. The understanding and use of vowels and the difference between long and short vowels is critical to fluency and the student will receive additional training in this area.
Area 8 – Swift > Fluency
Student continues to build reading speed and comprehension by reading sentences three times at increasing speeds and answering comprehension questions about the material read. Three hundrend sentence readings have been completed in this level for a total of nine hundred completed overall. This process also incorporates the phonics principles trained at this level. Student is not yet reading fluently but is gaining speed without sacrificing comprehension.
Students who have successfully completed the forty games comprising Level 3 of the MD4 Reading curriculum have successfully demonstrated a basic level of skills in a wide range of areas and completed one hundred and fifty exercises in total or fifteen percent of the overall program. The specific skills trained can be found in the "Skills and Abilities Developed" section below. To view specific skills trained in each "Area" of the curriculum please see the “Skills Training by Area" below.