From Orton Gillingham Coaching In teaching with structured literacy, there are reasons it’s hard for students to go from isolated sounds to blending. It’s not just incomprehension, it has to do with moving from doing one task, making one sound, to now doing three things, blending three sounds. It’s a jump for younger kids and…
From Orton Gillingham Coaching Watch on YouTube: What Cards Are In the Reading Consonant Deck from Orton Gillingham Coaching #phonics #education What is a reading consonant? A reading consonant is when you ask what sound(s) letter or letter combinations make. For example, b says /b/, it only makes that one sound. But, g can make…
Before we teach a syllable type in Orton-Gillingham, we first teach the vowel sound deeply on its own. For example, we don’t jump into closed syllables before students understand short vowels. We spend time helping students hear, read, write, and recognize those vowel sounds through drill cards, blending activities, tracing, dictation, and sound work. Then…
From Orton Gillingham Coaching Watch on YouTube: How Do You Spell a Sound? from Orton Gillingham Coaching #education What Is Sound Reading and Sound Spelling? Sound Reading asks, what does this letter say? Sometimes it says one sound and sometimes it says multiple sounds. Examples: What does S say? S says, /s/ and /z/ as…
We talk about Orton Gillingham being multi-sensory. Multi-sensory means we want students of OG to hear the language (auditory), see the language (visual) and use the language as kinesthetic (feel/write). When we combine these three prongs we get a multi-sensory approach, meaning all of these senses are being used by a student to learn. The…
From Orton Gillingham Coaching For our Reading Vowels, we start with short vowels. We have a short vowel deck with pictures to help students associate these first letter sounds with pictures. Watch to learn more tools and teaching strategies for short vowels. Watch on YouTube: Valuable Activities for Teaching Short Vowels Using Multi-Sensory from Orton…
From Orton Gillingham Coaching The Reading Consonant Deck is the first deck used in Orton-Gillingham. This video explains the whole deck — going through each card and keywords. Get to know this deck! And be sure to check out the links below. There is a free template for creating your own card decks. Watch on…
Sound Spelling Versus Sound Reading, What’s the Difference? When taking an Orton Gillingham class, as a student or as a teacher, you will have two terms: Reading Consonant & Vowels and Spelling Consonants & Vowels. What’s the difference in the two? It can get a little confusing. Reading Consonant & Vowel Sounds When going through…
I’ve written about schwa before, but it’s a topic that still comes up often with teachers, tutors, and parents. Schwa vowels can feel tricky at first. It’s not complicated, but because it shows up slowly and quietly in words, and schwa vowels don’t always sound the way we expect, even teachers and tutors sometimes get…
The content details various facts about English vowels, including their multiple sounds (long, short, and schwa), indications (breve and macron), and their occurrence in words. It explains concepts like closed syllables, Magic E, and silent E, as well as vowel teams and schwa vowels. The workbook and resources for learning phonics are also highlighted.
Consonant Fact #1 21 Consonants are: b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q(u), r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z Consonant Fact #2 Consonants never say their name (except in words like x-ray). Consonant Fact #3 Most consonants have one sound. Consonant Fact #4 Five consonants have more…
What’s the importance of phonemic awareness, and what exactly does that mean? First, phonics and phonemic awareness are not the same thing. Phonics is understanding the relationship of letters and sounds in WRITTEN language. Phonemic awareness is understanding the sounds of language, working together in SPOKEN language to make words. A Little Deeper on Phonemic…
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