Seeing Stars® Program: Symbol Imagery for Fluency, Orthography, Sight Words, and Spelling
We now know that a significant number of students - even those who have well-developed phonemic awareness - have difficulty with rapidly perceiving sounds in words, and are therefore slow to self-correct their reading errors. Their spelling is often phonetically accurate, but they can't remember the visual patterns of words. |
One of the main causes of difficulty in establishing sight words and reading fluency is a difficulty in visualizing letters in words. This is called weak symbol imagery. Symbol imagery can be defined as the ability to visualize the identity, number, and sequence of sounds and letters within words. It is an essential skill that underlies fluent reading and accurate spelling.
Seeing Stars® successfully develops symbol imagery and directly applies that sensory-cognitive function to sight word development, contextual fluency, spelling and increasing the speed and stability of phonemic awareness. The process-based instruction of Seeing Stars® teaches the student to create mental imagery for letters within words, and to connect that imagery to the sounds of language. This then extends into multisyllable words and contextual reading and spelling. |
| Who Would Benefit from the Seeing Stars® Program?
Children who have weak symbol imagery often display the following difficulties:
• Weak word attack skills
• Poor sight-word recognition
• Inaccurate spelling despite phonetic accuracy
• Poor contextual reading fluency
• Weak reading comprehension
• Weak visual memory
• Weak memory for dates, names, numerals, lists, etc.
• Symptoms of dyslexia
How Does Seeing Stars® Program Help?
The Seeing Stars® program helps develop the student's ability to:
• Image, say, and write letters by name or sound.
• Image, decode, and spell simple and complex one-syllable words.
• Automatically image, read, and spell an extensive base of sight words.
• Image, read, and spell two- and three-syllable words.
• Read fluently in context.
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How to Get Started
At Brain & Language Connections, we offer the Seeing Stars® program at our Hawthorn East clinic. It is intended to be completed as an INTENSIVE PROGRAM whereby the student attends five days per week. A comprehensive assessment of your child’s phonological awareness, symbol imagery, language and/or literacy skills will determine whether a Lindamood Bell® program is an appropriate option.. |
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For more information or to make a booking, call Anna on 0409 850082 or complete the Online Consultation Form.
BLC Speech Pathology is not affiliated with Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes® however Speech Pathologists at BLC have been specifically trained in using the Seeing Stars® program by a qualified instructor at Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes® in Sydney. |
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