The Prentice School's
English Language Arts
The Science of Reading (SOR) is a well established science-based model used to illustrate the relationship and order of learned skills necessary in the development of language comprehension. Prentice School students receive comprehensive language instruction supported by Amplify, a Language Arts curriculum guided by the Science of Reading and designed to provide explicit, multimodal, systematic language instruction. Amplify lessons provide numerous engaging opportunities for students to interact with concepts using various modalities.
Prentice's Amplify classes meet grade level standards for English Language Arts instruction, but are taught in a way that is accessible for students who decode below grade level. To complement this curriculum, our students benefit from strategies & techniques used in Visualizing and Verbalizing that support comprehension and retention, as well as multisensory instruction utilizing the Orton-Gillingham approach.
The Simple View of Reading
D x LC = RC
The formula above reads:
Decoding times Language Comprehension equals Reading Comprehension.
If either of the first two variables are 0, then the answer is 0.
The goal of reading is comprehension and reading comprehension requires appropriate decoding skills and accurate comprehension of vocabulary and syntax. English is a morphophonemic language, meaning English Orthography, or the spelling of words, represents both meaning and sound.
Simply put, we know that students must be able to decode words AND understand their meaning to be able to fully comprehend what they are reading. Our students receive up to 100 minutes per day of ELA / SoR instruction.







