Bridgeway Reading Program

We understand what it takes to help a struggling student learn how to read. We have combined what we've learned with proven teaching methods to create the Bridgeway Reading Program. Our approach has helped hundreds of students with dyslexia and other learning disabilities learn how to read.

Recognizing Reading Difficulties

Students who are experiencing reading difficulties may exhibit a number of the following characteristics:

 

• Unable to recognize their letters
• Can not connect the letter name with the sound the letter makes
• Have difficulty rhyming words
• Unable to recognize frequently seen words, sight words
• Unable to understand what they read, words and passages
• Have a limited range of vocabulary (age appropriate)
• Unable to read words they can not spell or vice-versa
• Reading  that is choppy or halted, added pauses
• Makes frequent letter reversals,  letter additions or omissions in spelling 

Our Approach

The Bridgeway Reading Program teaches phonics following a structured routine.  Within each class, students are exposed to a review, introduction to new information; practice using what they have learned, sight words and sight-word activities, shared reading and writing activities.  Diverse learning styles are embedded into each Bridgeway Reading Program lesson through a multi-sensory approach to learning.
 
Bridgeway's reading program consists of four elements:

Reading Readiness introduces the program’s routine and activities to the students.  Reading readiness checks for previous knowledge, from letter recognition to identifying parts of a book.  As well, students are shown a diagram of a brain and discuss how using all of their senses in each lesson will help to strengthen their reading skills.
 

Part One uses games and multi-sensory activities to introduce letters and their sounds to students. Each time a new sound is taught, the student receives a card with the letter representation of the sound printed on it.  Students use these sound cards for hands-on, visual activities throughout Bridgeway’s Reading Program. 
 

Part Two uses the sounds students learned in part one to teach syllabication, prefixes and suffixes.
 

Part Three is called Read/Write/Spell Skills. The final part of Bridgeway’s Reading Program works to teach students how the skills and concepts they have mastered in the program can be used in school and in real-life.  Students are also introduced to activities focused on parts of speech, grammar and practice these skills throughout the duration of the program.