I came across this Power Point presentation a few weeks back and have since found a couple of research studies on the "Nonverbal Approach to Reading (NRA)". When I attended the "Literacy and AAC" course put on by Karen Erickson and David Koppenhaver in May, they spoke of the goal of reading instruction being that of "reading silently (in your head) with comprehension". Seems logical but for students who do not talk what does this mean? From everything that I've read what it means is that we need to be explicit about teaching them to read silently in there head. We need to actually talk to them in the teaching process about what they are hearing in their heads while reading.
I'm excited to begin trying this NRA method with a few of my students after Christmas. I am using a modified approach to Patricia Cunningham's "Systematic Sequential Phonics They Use: For Beginning Readers of All Ages" with three of my students and have now created NRA Power Points to go with the word wall words that are introduced with this program. One of the research articles that I read talked about including a motoric prompt to go along with steps of the NRA approach as they were then able to tell when students transferred the skill and were using the approach with other words. I'm excited to add in this NRA piece.
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