Hooks ISD uses the Take Flight curriculum for its dyslexia program. Take Flight contains the 5 components of effective reading instruction supported by the National Reading Panel research meta-analysis and mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act: phonemic awareness, phonic skills, vocabulary, fluency and reading comprehension.
Hooks ISD also has Reading By Design, which is a systematic, multisensory set of instructional
routines which include content and pedagogically appropriate practices compiled from sources,
such as Foundations for Literacy: Structures and Techniques for Multisensory Teaching of Basic
Written English Language Skills by Aylett Royall Cox (1980). This program is aligned with
research-based practices for developing literacy and is designed for students with basic reading
difficulties, such as dyslexia. This intervention follows an intensive, explicit, and cumulative
design for remediation of reading and writing skills at all grade levels. Reading by Design
includes all of the components of instruction and instructional approaches supported through
research as cited in the The Dyslexia Handbook – Revised 2021.