Dyslexia: Strategies for Success - Developing and Consolidating
Tracking Skills Through ITCBy deGraft-Hanson, Christine; Closing
the Gap, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 18-19 Publication Date: April/May
2006 Article discusses how the Track software series from SEMERC
can be used to provide literacy education support for students
with dyslexia in grades kindergarten through sixth. The series
provides instruction in spelling, memorization, the alphabet,
visual perception, and reading and writing skills. Each program
features multi-sensory instruction within an engaging structure.
For example, Eye Track encourages learners to use visual
information to recognize, recall, discriminate, and attach
meanings to what they see while playing a cops-and-robbers style
video game. Phenome Track supports the development of
phonological awareness through activities that see students
delete or replace phonemes to create new words, while Alphabet
Track supports learning the alphabet via rhymes. Spell Track
supports a puzzle-style spellin