Linguistic Phonics

EBLI stands for Evidence Based Literacy Instruction. EBLI is a teacher training and student instruction system that utilizes a Linguistic Phonics approach. EBLI provides explicit instruction to teach the 5 Essential Components of Reading, as well as handwriting, writing, and spelling, to learners of any age and ability level in whole class, small group, and 1:1 settings. Teacher training and support is online and asynchronous. 

Rather than providing instruction in one or a few components of reading (i.e. a tool in the toolbox), EBLI provides instruction in all the components of reading, plus writing, handwriting, and spelling in an interleaving fashion for maximum efficiency (i.e. all the tools plus the toolbox). In teaching a Structured Linguistic Literacy (SLL) - also sometimes referred to as Speech to Print or Linguistic Phonics - approach, EBLI is fundamentally different from instruction that teaches Balanced Literacy or Traditional Phonics with a Print to Speech approach. 

EBLI is similar to Orton-Gillingham instruction in many ways: phonemic awareness and phonics instruction is structured, explicit, and systematic. Students immediately apply in reading and writing what was learned in the explicit instruction. Decodable stories are used for emerging readers and the students move to reading authentic text. Fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, spelling, handwriting, and writing are not just addressed but are taught explicitly.