Curriculum
Five Bridges to Higher Words, Syllable Power
Five Bridges, the main component of STRIPSS, uses syllabication as a decoding intervention. Experience shows that about eighty percent of students struggling with word decoding at the secondary level know their phonics but cannot use it because they perceive multisyllabic words as strings of letters. Along with the five rules for breaking words into syllables, the basic phonic and morphemic elements are developed from fundamental level to application at high school level in multisyllabic words.
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High Powered Phonics, Word Structure
High Powered Phonics, which is used with students who have completed Five Bridges to Higher Words, uses the decoding strategy of structural analysis to develop word decoding from middle school to college level. HP Phonics fosters the application of the five syllable rules with the visual patterning of multiple prefixes and suffixes.
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The Power of Three, Multisensory Phonics
The Power of Three uses integrated visual-auditory-kinesthetic strategies and covers the entire phonic scope, with a perspective especially designed for the secondary student still weak in the basic development of phonics. The Power of Three includes a multisensory spelling intervention.
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Flash Power, Photographic Phonics
Flash Power uses flashcard strategies, in the teacher's choice of PowerPoint presentations or flashcards, to further develop the visual-auditory aspects of long and short vowels, final e, the open-closed syllable, and hard-soft c and g, for secondary students still weak in the basic development of phonics. Flash Power is especially applicable to the cooperative-group game format
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About
Through our workshops and presentations at reading conferences, these materials have been successfully and enthusiastically used by teachers in Volusia County, and other areas of Florida, for more than ten years. The Howard Reading Service was established in 2007 as a vehicle for sharing our work more widely.
In 2010 we began transforming these workshop and classroom materials into a published program. In Pennsylvania, New York, and Alabama, the STRIPSS Program is currently being reviewed by university professors, special education personnel, and school districts. STRIPSS has been textbook-adopted in Alabama.
Georgia Howard
Founder
The teaching of reading first caught my attention back in elementary school. One of my dearest classmates, despite his intelligence and exceptional maturity, struggled with reading. As we went up through the grades, I kept hoping that this year's teacher would be able to help him. It never happened, and I wondered why.
I lost sight of my friend when I went to an all-girl's high school, but I had been blessed with a baby brother. Already seeing myself as a teacher, I now saw this little preschooler as my very own class of one. He was a learning sponge and moved quickly through my math and natural science lessons (Today I can say, "My brother, the doctor.") - but I could not teach him to read. Why?
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Celeste Johnson
CEO
Having accrued more than 40 years of dedication to her profession, Ms. Johnson has garnered a laudable reputation for helping students read fluently, as well as coaching her fellow educators in supporting their pupils. As a child, she struggled with reading, which led to her interest in learning about various types of learning disabilities, especially in reading. The more she understood about the process of her dyslexia, the more Ms. Johnson was able to experiment with, and ultimately find strategies that helped her students become better readers.
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