It is a non-phonic solution for your lowest level readers
Failure Free Reading specializes in…
accelerating the learning curve of elementary, middle or high school students identified as:
Chronic Non-Responders”
.5 to 4 grade levels behind !!
Failure Free Reading
Jumpstarts
Non-responders
stuck at 0-15%!
3 Characteristics of Chronic
Non-Responders
PD
Stands for ‘Phonetically Deaf’
•Born with a “Tin Ear” for Sounds
•Auditory Dyslexia
•Show very little to no success with Phonics
•Need an Alternative to “Skills First” approach
•Visual Learners
3 Characteristics of Chronic
Non-Responders
ED
Stands for ‘Environmentally Denied’
•Low income families without means to provide
academic support
•Parents with very little formal education
•Academic language not spoken frequently in the home
•Parents/Guardians unable to spend time with students
on homework and discussing issues of an academic nature
that will help expand their academic abilities
3 Characteristics of Chronic
Non-Responders
LD
Stands for ‘Language Deprived’
•Many come from homes where Standard English
is not always spoken.
•ELL
•Students that are exposed to very little academic
language
Research Fact
•How many times does an average students need
to see a word to gain independent recognition?
•The average student needs to see a word between 15-20
times prior to independent recognition (McKeown, Beck,
Omanson and Pople, 1985).
•How many times does a poor reader need to see a word
to gain independent recognition?
• Poor readers needed to see words an average of 76 times
or more before they could recognize each word in isolation
for three consecutive times (Hargis, 1988).
The Failure Free Core Academic English
Reading Series…
A Complete Print and Software Curriculum
Designed to Teach 27 Stories of Increasing English Language
Complexity
Elementary Solution
FFR can take a student from:
0.0 to 4.5 Reading Level in
less than 180 lessons!
Secondary Solution
6th -12th
grade Struggling
Readers
Secondary Solution
The Secondary Solution consists of the upper
level Orange & Teal levels found in the Elementary Solution
combined with all of the Verbal Master levels
Verbal Master
An Accelerated Standard English Vocabulary
Program for Grades 6-12 Teaching Vocabulary, Spelling,
Written English Composition, Literacy and Comprehension
Verbal Master
Verbal Master I
6th-7th Grade
8th-9th Grade
Verbal Master II
Verbal Master III
10th-11th Grade
Verbal Master IV
SAT/ACT
Life Skills
Ages 14 - 21 yrs
Reading as Low as 0.0
Life Skills
What Makes Failure Free Reading So Different? ...
First intervention to reduce
reading text to its simplest form
by controlling for :
•Abundant Repetition
•Basic Sentence Structure
•Understandable Story Content
•Non- Phonic-Vocabulary based
Repetition is
the Key!
Average Student =15-20 times
Poor Readers= 76+ times
How is Failure Free Reading Taught?
Three Station Instructional Procedure
Teacher-led Language/Literacy Station
Small Group 15-20 Minutes
Print Reinforcement Activities
15-20 Minutes
Computer-led Online Station
15-20 Minutes
How Do We Begin?
- Reading Inventory (optional)
1-Diagnostic Placement Test
2-Story Pretest
Example of Teacher Instruction- Orange level
Teacher Instruction- VM
• Verbal Master instruction is organized by Units,
with five individual Lessons per Unit.
• On the first day of a unit you introduce the
pronunciation of all five words for the week first.
• Each lesson introduces one new word .
• Instruction is flexible: you can teach one, or more
than one lesson, each day depending on the time
available for instruction and your students’ ability
VM-Teacher Instruction Example
Two Station Instructional Procedure
for Verbal Master
Teacher-led Language/Literacy Station
Computer-led Station
Small Group 15-20 Minutes
15-20 Minutes
Days 1-5
Print Reinforcement Activities
15-20 Minutes
3 station on Day 5
Print review at
the end of the week
after teacher review
and computer review lessons
Day 5
Computer Instruction
JR Preteaching Vocabulary
Software Example
JR Word Recognition
JR Reinforcement Activities
Additional Features
Spanish Instruction
Directions with Subtitles
ASL Video Instruction
iPad compatible
Classic version for
older computers
Verbal Master Software Sequence
◦ Cluster Pretest- synonym, definition, fill in the blank, comprehension
◦ Words Instruction
◦ Pronunciation
◦ Definition
◦ Context
◦ Question
◦ Spelling
◦ Unit Review- synonym, definition, fill in the blank, comprehension
◦ Cluster Story & Posttest
Verbal Master Cluster
Pretest Software Example
Verbal Master
Software Example
Life Skills
Life Skills Instruction
Talking Book Software Example
Life Skills Instruction
Spelling
Independent Print Reinforcement Activities
Independent Print Activities
Examples
REPORTS
Diagnostic Prescriptive Report
Give the Diagnostic Placement at the End
of the Year to Record Growth
School Progress Report
Donna Vorenkamp M.Ed., NBCT
Donna.failurefree@gmail.com
281-686-0210