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Word Workout is an instructional strategy program designed to teach multisyllabic decoding skills to upper elementary, middle, and high school students who struggle to decode content area text.

The program includes a Student Lesson Workbook, a two-part Teacher’s Manual, and a two-part Student Fluency Book. Part One, lessons 1-11, provide the foundational rules for the most common suffixes. Part Two, lessons 12-24, cover weak vowel suffixes and the more complex rules associated with them. The fluency practice occurs periodically throughout the program with corresponding lessons in the Teacher’s Manual that explain how to run the fluency exercises in the Student Fluency Book.

The definitive, interactive text from 2 leaders of the programed instruction movement in behavior analysis. Includes 7 chapters that teach how to write instruction to teach 9 kinds of learning: psychomotor learning (responses, chains and kinesthetic repertoires), basic verbal learning (S-R associations, verbal sequences and algorithms, and broader verbal repertoires), and intellectual skills (learning concepts, principles and procedures, and problem-solving strategies). 12 additional appendices provide detailed exercises for learners to develop instructional programs for teaching S-R associations, motor chains, algorithms, concepts, and principles.     

Besides scripted lessons, the Teacher Presentation Book also includes an introduction to word problem solving, discussing the problems with current approaches to teaching word problems; a description of how and where word problems fits in the big picture of teaching math; a clear scope and sequence; and pre-tests and post-tests. A Fluency Practice Book for students includes hundreds and hundreds of problems.

Morningside and Sloan Publishing is very excited to announce a brand new book describing the Morningside Model of Generative Instruction!

At over 500 pages, this comprehensive work significantly expands on an earlier publication to provide a thorough overview of how best practices in behavioral education can bridge the seemingly endless divide between educators who build basic skills and those who aim to teach inquiry and thinking. This is a must-have for those interested in expanding from direct instruction and fluency-based instruction into higher order thinking and problem solving, as well as teachers looking to build solid foundations from which to continue inquiry-based approaches.

For over 40 years, Morningside has investigated the most effective methods for developing learners, thinkers, and citizens. In this book, the authors describe a technology of instruction based on scientific research that has improved the academic performance of children at schools and agencies throughout the world. The Morningside Model of Generative Instruction combines curated curriculum, formal instruction, practice to fluency, and a focus on directly teaching functional thinking repertoires for generative responding. The result is expert and confident learners who apply skills and strategies to think about the world around them, continue to learn on their own, and solve problems of daily living.

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The definitive interactive text from the leader of the programed instruction movement in behavior analysis. Includes 5 chapters that teach 3 fundamental principles of instructional design: frequent meaningful responding, errorless learning, and immediate feedback. Also includes wise advice about the art of design, including layout of text, diagrams, other visuals, and “white space;” various response modes for learners to continuously respond to instruction; important distinctions between prompting and priming; didactic vs. discovery learning designs; and 2 types of instructional delivery: the Demonstrate, Prompt and Release framework of Gilbert’s classic Mathetics; and the RULEG (i.e., rules, examples and non-examples) system of Evans, Homme, and Glaser.

Basic Elements is Morningside’s phonics skill building program, providing see-say fluency practice over a series of 59 slices of sub-skills involved in decoding words, including vowel combinations, vowel/consonant combinations, prefixes, suffixes and other word parts. The program uses both real and nonsense words so that the learner cannot rely on previous sight word instruction and recall. After initial instruction in small groups, students practice each sub-skill until it is fluent (automatic, second-nature).

In its table of contents, Basic Elements is correlated to lessons from the McGraw Hill SRA Corrective Reading series (Decoding A, B1, B2, and C,) and Sopris West Rewards Multisyllabic Word Reading Strategies.