The Writing Road to Reading can involve three (Visual, Auditory and Haptic) modalities.

• In the Haptic approach, the word is said, seen and felt because the reader writes the word as he reads it.

• The feedback from the nerve endings under the skin and in the joints and muscles provide the sensory data a for this third modality.

• This can be a tracing on the blackboard, in a sandbox, on sandpaper, or as one teacher described it, in a large vat of jello, to mention a few.

• In terms of the applications of the modalities, there is no right or wrong combination. Whatever works is right! The modalities can be manipulated to be three, two or one.

• This can be done, for example, in the Writing Road to Reading by having the reader wear a blindfold while he is tracing the letters, and/or refrain from saying the words out loud while he writes the letters.

  NOTES: See how phonics is used in the Writing Road to Reading

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