Ms. Siegel's Literacy Page

Excel Program

Village School

Multi Sensory Literacy Instruction

Welcome to the Excel Program.

Excel is part of the Achieve program at Village School which helps support children in basic literacy skills. It is a multi-sensory based learning environment which helps students with decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling).

Please contact me at: msiegel@holmdeschools.org

Students are instructed through multiple senses, which include: visual, auditory, kinesthetic and tactile modalities.

Skills covered within Excel

Phonics (both decoding and encoding)

    • letter recognition
    • consonant sounds
    • vowel patterns
    • syllable types
    • prefixes and suffixes
    • spelling generalizations

Sight Words (Red Words)

    • Reading and Spelling of words with irregular patterns

Fluency

    • Reading a text or passage with accuracy & efficiency.

Phonemic Awareness

    • The ability to recognize and manipulate sounds/syllables within words.