Programs in development

The MULTILIT programs currently in development are:

MINILIT(Meeting Initial Needs in Literacy)

This is a reading program in development, targeting at-risk and/or struggling early readers, in the latter half of the first or in the second year of schooling. Predicated on the same principles as MULTILIT (structured, systematic and explicit teaching in phonics, sight words and reading of connected text), it has an added focus on phonemic awareness in the first level of the program. The program is delivered in groups of up to four children and has scripted lessons, incorporating the teaching of core reading skills.

Group MULTILIT

The MULTILIT Reading Tutor Program has been adapted for use in groups of up to eight students. Group MULTILIT has been used in the MULTILIT clinic and community projects for many years. It is currently being further developed for use in schools.

PRELIT

PRELIT focuses on the explicit teaching of pre-requisite literacy skills for pre-schoolers. It follows a systematic structure, enabling pre-schoolers to develop the foundation skills in preparation for learning to read when they reach school. Phonemic awareness and letter/sound correspondence are a major part of the program.

WARP (Wheldall Assessment of Reading Passages)

The WARP is a curriculum-based measure using a series of reading passages at the same level of difficulty to measure and monitor oral reading fluency (how rapidly a child can read words correctly). The test is administered on a regular basis and only takes a minute.

WARL (Wheldall Assessment of Reading Lists)

The WARL is a curriculum-based measure currently in its experimental edition. Devised for use with younger children than the WARP (Wheldall Assessment of Reading Passages), the WARL consists of a series of words to be read individually. Children are presented with three stimulus pages (one page at a time) and asked to read as many words as quickly and carefully as they can, for 60 seconds. An average rate of words read correctly per 60 seconds is then calculated.