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The program employs a multi-sensory approach to learning. Throughout the program, students are given the opportunity to trace letters with their fingers on activity sheets, use their whole arms to skywrite letters or whole body physical activities such as making the shapes of letters with their entire body. When reviewing key letter sound relationships, they are encouraged to trace the letters on their desks, continuously reinforcing the symbol/sound relationship on a daily basis through physical movement. This results in a combination of sound, sight and body movements that work together to form the neural circuitry that embeds the sound and symbol relationship in their brain. Furthernore, cursive writing is incorporated into this program and provides students with the opportunity for exposure to this skill at an age earlier than would normally be possible. Children at a young age are better at making curvilinear movements than straight lines. Scribbling comes naturally to them. Forming the cursive letter ‘a’ is much is much easier than forming the straight lines of a manuscript letter ‘A’. This program allows cursive writing to be introduced in a slow incremental manner. The large, gross motor body movements that accompany the introduction of a letter sound relationship are very deliberate in their execution. They are executed in the air, and not on paper, providing ample opportunity to rehearse the movements before the children transfer these movementsto pencil and paper print activities.
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