The PRIDE Reading Program has announced that the San Diego Unified School District located in San Diego, California, has implemented the PRIDE Reading Program, structured literacy approach for students with dyslexia and specific learning disabilities.
The San Diego Unified School District currently includes 113 elementary schools, 24 middle schools, 27 high schools and 25 charter schools. The San Diego Unified School district is the second largest school district in California and the largest in San Diego County. The district will offer the PRIDE Reading Program, structured literacy curriculum to address the specific needs of the district’s struggling students and students with IEP’s.
The PRIDE Reading Program is an evidence-based method that is structured, sequential, multisensory and cumulative. This Orton-Gillingham program explicitly teaches children with dyslexia, auditory processing, and specific learning disabilities how to read, spell, write and comprehend. Many schools and school districts across the United States are using the PRIDE Reading Program with great success.
The San Diego Unified School District is dedicated to providing appropriate support and/or related services to those students determined by an educational evaluation. The district will offer the PRIDE Reading Program for students requiring more specialized instruction and support.
For more information on implementing an Orton-Gillingham, Structured Literacy program in your school or school district, please contact the PRIDE Reading Program at 866-774-3342 ext. 2 or email info@pridereadingprogram.com
I have 3 kids with dyslexia in the San Diego Unified School District. Unfortunately, as of 03/2021, their school is still refusing to implement a structured literacy reading program. I was told by the principal that only 1 school within the district purchased the PRIDE program. This is unfortunate. My kids keep falling behind with the current balanced literacy program.
Thank you for advocating for your children’s needs! Programs like PRIDE are working hard to get on every school and district’s radar, but parents really are a huge driving force in the movement to have early dyslexia screening and structured literacy curriculum implemented across the country. Part of why we offer PRIDE as a homeschool curriculum is so parents whose children aren’t getting structured literacy instruction at school help their children at home.