Multisensory Strategies

• The sand tray is a multisensory component that is highly encouraged for instruction.
• We use the sand tray in the auditory drill, and when introducing a new skill/sound.
• The sand tray ignites multiple learning pathways in the brain.
• When students write sounds in the sand tray, they have a higher chance of retaining the information.

Understanding that words are made up of sequences of individual sounds, or phonemes, are a building block for learning to decode, or sound out, individual words. Two important abilities that students must develop are blending and segmenting.

Spelling is just as important as reading. Strengthening spelling will also help strengthen reading. Many times, students are stronger readers than spellers. After a sound or skill is introduced using a multisensory approach, we directly apply the skill by spelling words containing the new skill. Students spell words by using the pound and finger tap strategy