The Barton Reading and Spelling System is an intensive reading intervention developed for students struggling with reading. It is influenced by the work of Dr. Orton and Anna Gillingham and teaches phonemic awareness and phonics through scripted lesson plans. Students meet in small groups for 45 minutes to an hour daily to practice reading words, phrases, and decodable text. Studies in Benton County, Florida, and Alaska found significant improvements in students' decoding, reading comprehension, and fluency after using the Barton System for 6 months to 2 years.

1. Barton Reading
and Spelling
Intervention
By
Suellen Mee

2. Barton Reading and Spelling
System
 Influenced by Dr. Orton and Anna
Gillingham
 A unique method and sequence to
improve reading skills of children and adults
with dyslexia
 Intensive reading intervention designed
for students who struggle with reading
 Students are taught phonemic awareness
and phonics

3. The Barton Reading and
Spelling System (Cont.)
 Scripted lesson plans guide students in the
mastery of the language continuum
 Increases fluidity and flexibility between
listening, speaking and writing
 Skills build on each other so no essential
skill is missed

4. Implementation
 Students meet in small groups (1:4
teacher/student ratio) 45 minutes to 1 hour
each day
 Lessons can not be taught unless all students
are present
 Lessons consist of phonemic awareness,
practice reading words and phrases, and
decodable text
 Work on fluency, vocabulary and
comprehension

5. Benton County
 Benton county has implemented early
intervention program in all 4 elementary
schools
 Screened kindergarten and first graders to
identify students at risk
 The Barton Reading and Spelling System
was used for high risk students in the “Tier
3” category

6. Benton County Results
www.bartonreading.com/ar-rtistudy.pdf

7. Florida Independent Study
 Involved 2 different Speech-Language
clinics
 Significant improvement seen after 40
weeks of 1 on 1 Barton tutoring
 More than 2 years of decoding and
reading comprehension
 More than 1.5 years of fluency

8. Florida Independent Study
www.dys-add.com/floridacampbellstudy.pdf

9. Alaska Independent Study
 45 students, grade 2-11, were given GORT
4 pretest for “before” scores
 Students given 2 to 3 hours of one on one
Barton tutoring per week
 Students showed 2 years of gain in just 6
months

10. Alaska Study Results
www.bartonreading.com/AlaskaData.pdf

11. The Barton Reading and
Spelling System
 A unique researched based reading
intervention
 Successfully teaches phonemic
awareness, phonics, fluency and
comprehension
 Proven study that would help many
children across the country

12. Works Cited
 Lewis, E., & Bowers, C. (2003). Research supports
phonological gains with intervention. Barton
Reading & Spelling System.
 Retrieved from
http://www.bartonreading.com/AlaskaData.pdf
 Benton, AR Intensive reading intervention report.
(n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.BartonReading.com/AR-RTIStudy.pdf
 Significant gains demonstrated in reading realized
after utilizing the Barton Reading and Spelling
Program. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.dys-
add.com/FloridaCampbellStudy.pdf