The C & G Rule, How to Teach It, and 10 Activities for Individual and Group Lessons
Teaching Short Vowel Rules and Activities to Help from Orton Gillingham Coaching
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This video is an overview, with activities included, of Orton Gillingham-based Short Vowel Rules with -- FLOSS, "K" Rule, "CH" Rule, and the "J" Rule.
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Activities to Make Schwa Fun and Engaging
Understanding and recognizing schwa is crucial for students, as it often plays a big role in pronouncing and accenting words.
What is Schwa?
The schwa sound is one of the most common sounds in the English language. It’s represented by the upside-down lowercase "e" (?). It occurs when a vowel in an unstressed syllable is reduced...
Reasons English Words Do Not End in V
In English, no word in the language ends with the letter "v" unless it is followed by the letter "e." This is something that sets English apart from many other languages.
In Orton Gillingham, we can teach the saying, “No English words end in V, it will always be followed by an E.”
A Brief History in Why...
Struggling to Blend Letters to Words, Help is Here
My Student Can Isolate Sounds but Struggles to Blend CVC Words
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 and thinking about how those...
From Isolated Sounds to Blending CVC from Orton Gillingham Coaching
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 includes cognitive processes, memory and phonemic awareness.
This video...
6 Easy Steps to Spelling Better: SOS Spelling Technique
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6 Easy Steps to Spelling Better: SOS Spelling Technique
Spelling can be a challenge for both kids and adults but throw in a word that makes no sense phonetically, (especially when you are teaching phonics!), and it can throw students for a loop. Simultaneous Oral Spelling (SOS Technique) can be a spelling-lifesaver. It’s used in...
How to Teach Consonant LE Syllable Pattern from Orton Gillingham Coaching
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Orton Gillingham Coaching: Teaching Consonant LE Syllables, Tools & Strategies
In Orton Gillingham we learn to use Syllable Types to label syllables. Eventually, this leads to syllable division. Consonant + LE is the fifth syllable pattern you teach in Orton Gillingham in the REVLOC system of syllable patterns.
Consonant + LE Syllable Pattern
The Consonant LE Syllable...
Making Sense of the Consonant Reading Deck from Orton Gillingham Coaching
https://youtu.be/XJaIKgd1g5o
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 two sounds, /g/ and /j/ as in gem.
In comparison, spelling a sound, for example, is when you ask a student,...
Teaching R-Controlled Vowels from Orton Gillingham Coaching
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Teaching R-Controlled Vowels
I’ve talked about syllables in my past posts, but within syllables, and before teaching a syllable type, you might have noticed I also teach the vowel type. For example, you wouldn’t start with a closed syllable before talking about short vowels in depth.
Teaching short vowels we...