Welcome to St. Johns Reading Room

St. Johns Reading Room (SJRR) utilizes evidence-based practices from the Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing Program for Reading, Spelling, and Speech (LiPS) and the Orton-Gillingham (OG) programs. Our St. Johns Reading Room program is designed to address phonological, reading, and spelling deficits. With SJRR, your child will learn to read with a systematic and explicit curriculum that progresses from the foundation of reading through your child’s grade level.

Our team of Florida-certified teachers are trained to use our SJRR curriculum to create a highly engaging, hands-on, multisensory, intensive intervention. We address your child’s needs at its foundation with one-on-one instruction and individualized care.

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You are not alone! Research shows 50% of the population has difficulty learning to read. St. Johns Reading Room is a safe place for struggling readers ages kindergarten through high school.

Whether your child has been diagnosed with dyslexia, other reading disabilities, or simply hasn’t received proper instruction, our teaching methods will help your child succeed and develop their reading abilities.

What it Takes to Become a Skilled Reader

Effective reading and reading instruction must begin at the foundational level of phonological processing. SJRR devotes the first phase of our curriculum to phonological processing so that word reading, spelling, fluency, and comprehension can all be developed upon this strong foundation. The blue circled areas are the areas we focus on through our specially designed SJRR curriculum.

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INTERVENTION IN ACTION

MOUTH PICTURES

Students explore the physical movements that are involved in producing sounds. They begin their reading journey by blending mouth picture sounds to read words.

CONNECTING MOUTH PICTURES TO LETTERS

When sensory feedback from the ear, eye, and mouth are integrated, students can verify the correspondence between spoken and written patterns.

THE VOWEL CIRCLE

Learning “The Vowel Circle” is a critical component of the LiPS Program. Understanding of this visual aide allows students to organize and differentiate similar yet distinct vowel sounds based on the position of the mouth as the sounds are produced.

SOUND ARTICULATION

Students frequently check their mouth position in a mirror as they learn the correct articulation of each sound in the English language.

TRACKING

Tracking: a daily phonological awareness activity that expands sound to symbol associations and has a direct correlation to future reading and spelling success.

GUIDED EXPLORATION

Guided exploration is key to the LiPS Program. Students are guided to form their own understanding of new concepts, rather than an instructor providing information to be memorized.

STUDENT ENGAGEMENT

Student engagement is necessary in order for learning success! At St. Johns Reading Room, students are given the opportunity to learn through high-yield strategies such as movement, games, hands-on and multi-sensory activities.

MULTI-SENSORY LEARNING

Multi-sensory learning means getting multiple senses involved in the learning process. Students develop a connection between a letter’s sound and shape through the sense of hearing, seeing and touching.

MOVEMENT

At St. Johns Reading Room we move around, manipulate cards, and tap into each child’s specific learning needs.

ENGAGEMENT STRATEGIES

Students formulate new knowledge through the use of hooks such as stories, drawings, songs and visual cues.

LEARNING IS FUN!

We believe learning can be and should be FUN! We strive to create a warm and inviting culture so that students view a reading session as an exciting part of their day.

THE BREAKING RULES

The best kept secret that we wish was taught in schools nationwide: Breaking Rules! The LiPS Program teaches five rules to automatically apply to multisyllable words, allowing students to break words into smaller chunks and easily recognize syllable structures.