VCV words can make syllable division feel confusing. I always (jokingly) say, if you can master VCV syllable division, you can understand any structured literacy concept and rule! With VCV words, we don’t divide first and hope it sounds right, we divide and listen, then decide if the first syllable is open or closed based…
Teachings vary on when beginning accenting is taught. If a student is advanced enough, accenting can start with RABBIT Words, because that’s when we begin teaching multisyllabic words in Orton-Gillingham. Certainly, by the time we arrive at VCV Words on the Scope and Sequence, accenting should be introduced. When students understand where the stress falls…
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…
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…
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