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How to Teach Schwa from Orton Gillingham Coaching

https://youtu.be/yIu2BD9PILs Understanding schwa can be hard for students and tricky for teachers and tutors to explain. This video has an explanation of schwa with how and when to teach it as well as activities. Want more? A full article is here: Activities to Make Schwa Fun and Engaging - Orton Gillingham for All (ogforall.com) More Learning Visit the Workbook...

Go Bananas for Schwa

I’ve written about Schwa before, but I’m seeing a lot of questions around this topic so I want to take a deeper dive into the topic of Schwa. What is a Schwa? Schwa is a term used when a vowel takes on (or gets “swallowed up” by) the “uh” (?) sound. Any vowel can do this...

Breaking the Rules: Wild Old Words

I’ve written in the past about closed syllables and how if a syllable is “closed in” by consonants, then it will be a “closed syllable” and the vowel will be short. However, there are groups of words called Wild-Old Words that are “fossil” words left from Anglo Saxon times that do not follow the...

SOS – A Technique to Save Spelling

In learning through OG, words are broken down into the REVLOC system and pronounced by rules. But what about sight words? Those pesky words that do not follow the rules and you just have to memorize. OG has that covered too. I would like to introduce a learning technique called SOS. This stands for Simultaneous...

Sight Words

How to Teach Schwa from Orton Gillingham Coaching

Go Bananas for Schwa

Breaking the Rules: Wild Old Words

SOS – A Technique to Save Spelling

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