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No Stress Over Accenting Rules

Accenting is something that can be taught early in Orton Gillingham, but the advanced rules are for advanced decoding and fall much later in the OG scope and sequence. Accenting is to aid in pronouncing words correctly – that’s the goal. If a student looks a word up in a dictionary (online these days) and sees...

REVLOC Game Online, Fun with Syllable Division

Syllable labeling and division is a major foundation of the Orton Gillingham approach. I posted, April 2020, a REVLOC game with a printout that you could cut out and have students sort syllables. Now, with many kids learning from home, I created a sorting game online. https://www.flippity.net/ma.php?k=1Fb5Sk5wEpfq4MPN-HpSjPpFaYggAUm1aDKEpaaoyAWM How To Play The colored blocks (at the bottom...

Scope and Sequence Is the Ship, You Are the Captain

A scope and sequence is a plan – the teaching of a subject (the scope) in a specific sequence. Many subjects have scope and sequence plans. Orton Gillingham is no different – it is an extensive subject that needs to be broken down into bites for easy digestion if someone is going to teach...

Feel the Flow with Fluency Stories

Fluency stories are important in all phonics and reading programs, not just Orton Gillingham, and if you are an educator reading this post, I don’t need to tell you all the stats and reasons. I would like to say that in Orton Gillingham I love to use fluency stories to reinforce rules, introduce new...

You’re in Possession of Orton Gillingham Possessive Rules

Possessive rules can be easy, but can also get a little tricky when we move beyond just adding ‘s. Possessive Rules are all about ownership and can be narrowed down to a couple of categories: singular and plural. Singular Possessive Rule Singular Possessive Rule is to show ownership for a singular owner, add ‘s to the singular...

Stores of Plural Rules

Without even thinking, we turn many singular words plural in our language. I might go to the grocery store, or the first store didn’t have what I needed, so I went to grocery stores. In many cases, like the word store, we just add an s and move on. But what if it’s not...

A Lion or a Poem: Dividing Vowel Team Words

In dividing words with vowel teams in Orton Gillingham there are two types: Lion Words Lion Words. In Lion words there will be a reversal of vowel teams. For example, io as in lion, rather than oi as in oil. Another example is ia as in dial, rather than ai as in rain. When a...

Speech Pathology in OG

Speech pathology is important in creating sounds, and this is important in Orton Gillingham because the method relies on teaching in a three-prong approach – auditory, kinesthetic and visual. For a learner with no speech issues, I think the most taught is that there is such a thing a voiced and unvoiced. Let them put...

REVLOC Syllable Sorting Game

REVLOC Sorting Cutout If you want to do something with a student that feels like a game, sorting syllables is a fun way to get going. There aren’t many rules. I have attached a cutout to this post for download. You can print it, cut it out and get started. You can also make more...

What’s In a Plan

With so many kids having to learn from home these days, you may be wondering what a lesson plan in Orton Gillingham looks like. A lesson can be between 45 minutes to an hour. Lessons consist of Drills, Letter Formation, Concepts, Dictation, and Reading. Much more detail on a lesson to come… There is also something in Orton Gillingham called...

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No Stress Over Accenting Rules

REVLOC Game Online, Fun with Syllable Division

Scope and Sequence Is the Ship, You Are the Captain

Feel the Flow with Fluency Stories

You’re in Possession of Orton Gillingham Possessive Rules

Stores of Plural Rules

A Lion or a Poem: Dividing Vowel Team Words

Speech Pathology in OG

REVLOC Syllable Sorting Game

What’s In a Plan

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