Seeing Stars©

The Seeing Stars© Program, created by Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes, uses sensory cognitive instruction to develop and strengthen symbol imagery in order to increase all the component parts of reading. This includes phonemic awareness, sight word recognition, and spelling.

Problem: Some students have developed skills in phonics and can sound out words, but they continue to have difficulty reading quickly and accurately on the page. These same students struggle to spell non-phonetic words and to build a sight word base. They sound out the word, but do not recognize the very same word later on.

Source: Symbol imagery is the ability to create mental imagery for sounds and letters within words. Students with this weakness struggle to form mental images for letter patterns that make up the words they are trying to decode. Children and adults can have trouble reading and writing because of weak symbol imagery. This weakness is the root of the student’s inability to self-correct reading errors, build a sight word base, and move fluently through a text. Symbol imagery can be developed and strengthened, allowing students to meet their full potential.

Indicators: Students have difficulty with:

  • Memorizing sight words

  • Sounding out words

  • Orthographic awareness

  • Phonemic awareness

  • Contextual reading fluency

  • Orthographic spelling

  • Word attack

  • Self-monitoring and self-correcting while reading

  • Spelling skills

Solution: The Seeing Stars© Program strengthens the sensory cognitive functions required for reading fluency and spelling.

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