“What is Wilson?”

The Wilson Reading System® (WRS) is the flagship program of Wilson Language Training® and the foundation of all other Wilson programs. WRS is an intensive Tier 3 program for students in grades 2-12 and adults with word-level deficits who are not making sufficient progress through their current intervention; have been unable to learn with other teaching strategies and require multisensory language instruction; or who require more intensive structured literacy instruction due to a language-based learning disability, such as dyslexia.

As a structured literacy program based on phonological-coding research and Orton-Gillingham principles, WRS directly and systematically teaches the structure of the English language. Through the program, students learn fluent decoding and encoding skills to the level of mastery. From the beginning steps of the program, students receive instruction in:

• Phonemic awareness

• Decoding and word study

• Sight word recognition

• Spelling

• Fluency

• Vocabulary

• Oral expressive language development

• Comprehension

The Wilson Reading System is broken into 12 steps or books. Each book systematically introduces new decoding concepts and syllabication rules. All students start from the beginning of the program to learn how the Wilson decoding rules build upon each other.