What is MTA?
It is a way of teaching students how to decode words and a reliable way to decide how to spell words using a multisensory sequential approach. It has multiple components in the daily schedule that will be taught from 3 to 10 minutes daily.
These components are follows:
1. Phonemic Awareness: ( 5minutes) This is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds or phonemes in spoken word. Activities include phoneme isolation, phoneme identification, phoneme categorization, phoneme blending, phoneme segmentation, phoneme deletion, phoneme addition and phoneme substitution.
2. Alphabet: 5 minutes of instruction that includes sequentially teaching, identification, sequencing, alphabetizing letters and words, use of dictionary and other resource materials.
3.Reading Decks: ( 3 min) There are 2 sets of decks, one that is letters to help with the recall of the individual phoneme sounds can include single letters, diagraphs, combinations, trigraphs, silent e patterns, and final stable syllables. The second deck is the key word and sound deck that gives a picture cue for the student to have are reliable means of recall of the sound each phoneme makes.
4. Spelling Decks: ( 3 min.) a deck to review all phonemes that they have learned that have a regular spelling and a reliable means of placing them in a way they can remember how to use each spelling.
5. Spelling Practice ( 10 min.) this is the time in the schedule that spelling rules are reviewed and practiced with a procedure that helps the student recall the rules and apply what has been taught. There is much review in the list of words and it is a very controlled list of words that only include words that follow the spelling rules that have been previously taught.
6. New Learning (10 min) The part of the lesson that teaches the new information of phonemes. The cursive writing of the letters and the spelling rules that apply to those particular sounds. It is taught very sequentially and builds on the previous day to include much review.
7.Handwriting Instruction ( 5 min) The portion of the lesson that will go over difficult cursive letters or prepare the students for the next new learning or MLI that they will be covering each week. The focus is on legible, fluent writing so that the student will have an easy way to recall letters in a word. Cursive writing is only used.
8. Reading Practice (10 min) This is the time in which the students use the information that has been taught to code and break down the graded list of words that are given to them. The students will first work with isolated individual words to help them work on the decoding that we teach them. Connected text is added to reinforce the coding rules that have been taught.
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