Powerline
Elementary Student
in Powerline Program
Powerline is being implemented this year for the first time at all three branches. The Powerline Reading Program is a phonics based program specifically designed to develop, use, and integrate the perceptual skills needed for reading, writing, and spelling. The Powerline Reading Program uses a multi-sensory approach to meet the needs of students. The Powerline Reading Program demands an immediate response of writing and speech (reading) from visual and auditory input so the teacher can monitor each step of the learning process.
The sequential arrangement of the lessons in the Powerline Reading Program reinforces and utilizes all previously learned concepts and provides positive daily success in a students reading, writing, spelling, listening, speaking, and language experience.
Many students with reading, writing, and spelling problems have to be told a "dozen times" before they comprehend or master a specific skill or concept. The Powerline Reading Program cassettes/CDs are effective because important concepts or skills are presented numerous times in different ways and in multiple lessons until each concept is mastered.
Phonics is just one of the components the program contains. For example, there are over 140 specific activities interwoven throughout the program to help the students develop their visual perception, and over 200 activities to help students develop their auditory sequencing and discrimination (crucial skills used in reading and spelling). The program starts with very simple exercises and advances to more sophisticated exercises in the final lessons. More than 44 components necessary for the accomplished reader and speller are woven into the program at the appropriate time. Some of these components include:
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POWERLINE teaches students how to
PAY ATTENTION, LISTEN, PERCEIVE, THINK, REMEMBER, AND ACT!