What Is Take Flight? Understanding the Program That Helps Children with Dyslexia Learn to Read

At Read901 Dyslexia Center, we use Take Flight: A Comprehensive Intervention for Students with Dyslexia—an evidence-based, structured literacy program developed by the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. It’s built specifically for students who struggle with reading, spelling, and writing due to dyslexia, and has been proven to help them make lasting progress.

What Is Take Flight?

Take Flight is a comprehensive Orton–Gillingham-based curriculum, meaning it follows a structured, multisensory, and sequential approach to teaching reading. Lessons are designed to help students understand how language works—breaking words into parts, learning patterns, and connecting sounds to symbols. This method helps “rewire” the brain to process written language more effectively.

Each Take Flight lesson includes:

• Phonemic awareness (hearing and manipulating sounds in words)

• Phonics and decoding (learning letter-sound relationships)

• Fluency practice (building reading speed and accuracy)

• Vocabulary development

• Reading comprehension strategies

How It Helps Students

Take Flight has been shown to significantly improve reading and spelling skills for students with dyslexia. Because it’s systematic and cumulative, students build on what they’ve already mastered—step by step—until reading becomes more automatic and less frustrating.

The program also emphasizes confidence and independence. Students begin to see that reading is something they can do, and with consistent practice, they start to experience success both in and out of the classroom.

Why Read901 Uses Take Flight

At Read901, we believe every child deserves the chance to reach their full potential. Take Flight gives us the framework to make that happen. With small-group or one-on-one instruction led by a Certified Academic Language Therapist (CALT), we meet each child where they are and guide them toward lasting literacy growth.