Organization of information for oral or written expression.Narrative and informational text structures.Reading comprehension with narrative and expository text of increasing levels of difficulty.Listening comprehension with age-appropriate narrative and informational text.Sentence-level text reading with ease, expression, and understanding.Vocabulary, word understanding, and word-learning skills.Word recognition and spelling of high frequency words, including irregular words.Word structure, in depth, for automatic decoding and spelling.Key components directly addressed in WRS are:
Throughout the program, teachers follow a ten-part lesson plan that provides for extensive teacher-student interaction and multisensory learning methods. From the beginning steps of the program, instruction also addresses high frequency words, fluency, vocabulary, oral expressive language development and comprehension with progressively more challenging text. It provides a complete curriculum for explicitly and systematically teaching decoding and encoding (spelling). 'The Wilson Reading System® (WRS) directly teaches the structure of the English language using an organized and sequential system in 12 Steps, not corresponded to school grade levels.
