Our students showed remarkable progress and our MEAP state reading scores jumped from 56.2 to 82.5 after only 3 months of Phonics First™ Academic Advantage On-site Tutoring. I would highly recommend it to any [urban] school wishing to make significant gains in student reading ability. No school should be without it!
– Steve Christian, Assistant Principal, Fleming Elementary, Detroit, MI

What is Phonics First™?

Phonics First

Phonics First™ is RLAC’s very own nationally accredited methodology to teaching literacy. Our dynamic and interactive professional development courses and workshops give special and general education teachers the knowledge and expertise to implement evidence based strategies that will improve student achievement. Based on the Orton-Gillingham approach to reading, Phonics First™ is language-based, multisensory, structured, sequential, cumulative, cognitive, and flexible.

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Accreditation through IMSLEC - International Multisensory Language Educational Counsel

Accreditation through the International Multisensory Language Education Council ensures that teachers are receiving an approved curriculum that meets the needs of learners at all levels.

Phonics First™ Includes the Critical Literacy Components of:

  • Phonemic awareness
  • Decoding and spelling
  • Fluency
  • Vocabulary
  • Comprehension

Phonics First™ Uses Differentiated Instruction Techniques
that are:

  • Prescriptive
  • Multisensory
  • Phonics-based
  • Systematic, structured and sequential

Phonics First™ Participants Learn:

  • Current reading research
  • Rationale for multisensory instruction
  • Stages of reading development
  • Reading readiness
  • Phonology
  • Vowel intensives
  • Five part lesson plan
  • Three-part drill
  • Multisensory spelling for phonetic and non-phonetic words
  • Syllabication
  • Oral Reading Strategies and comprehension integration
  • Lesson Planning