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 basic 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 has begun to demonstrate the ability to link up to nine sets of related words together and move those words into working memory. The work begun in Level 1 on letter sequencing continues with increased difficulty in time and complexity.
Area 3 - Array > Visual & Auditory Memory
Student has begun to strengthen their immediate, short term and long term visual sequential memory and demonstrated that they have an initial ability to retain three pieces of information that they have seen 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 has begun to build skill 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
Area 5 - Tactile > Visual Motor Integration
Student has built basic skills in the area of identifying shapes that are made up of other shapes that are not clearly defined and recognizing shapes such as squares, triangles, and parallelograms and has achieved a basic ability to orient those shapes correctly in order to duplicate data that they are seeing. At this time, the integration process is limited to three individual shapes without clear outlines.
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 eighty. 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 short vowels in basic words and has shown proficiency in identifying words containing short vowels. Multi-sensory techniques have been used in this process. The understanding and use of 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 hundred sentence readings have been completed in this level with six hundred ompleted overall. This process also incorporates the phonics principles trained at this level. Student is not yet reading fluently but is beginning to understand what fluency entails.
Students who have successfully completed the forty games comprising Level 2 of the MD4 Reading curriculum have successfully demonstrated a basic level of skills in a wide range of areas and completed eighty exercises in total or ten 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.