Vowel Team Spelling Generalizations: OI/OY, OU/OW, AU/AW Explained
Vowel Team Generalizations are taught for students to know the sounds and placement of OI/OY, OU/OW, AU/AW in words.
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A Simple System for Planning Orton-Gillingham Lessons
Create Orton Gillingham lesson plans for students in any setting.
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The 2–2–2 Summer Plan for Reading & Spelling: A Weekly Routine That Works When Summer Gets Messy
Summer tends to shift things. One week you’re on a roll, and the next week someone’s at the beach, at camp, or just… done. The truth is, very few are excited about full lessons of summer reading and spelling in July. No matter how great a tutor I am or how many “games” I can…
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Why Students Confuse b and d (And What Actually Helps)
Most tutors and teachers using the Orton-Gillingham approach have at least one student (or ten!) who confuses b and d. It’s common! And if a student has dyslexia, this confusion can stick around longer and feel more frustrating for both the student and the teacher. The good news? There are simple, effective ways to help….
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How to Use Orton-Gillingham in Group Lessons (Whole Class & Small Group)
Orton-Gillingham is often pictured as one teacher and one student sitting across from each other with sand trays and drill cards. That image isn’t wrong, but it’s incomplete. Most teachers are working with small groups, and sometimes full classes. So, the real question becomes: if OG is oriented to serve one-on-one, multisensory lessons, how does…
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Orton-Gillingham for Every Setting: Home, Pods, Classrooms, and Tutoring
If you’ve been curious about how to bring Orton-Gillingham (OG) and the Three-Part Drill into any setting, you’re in the right place. OG works beautifully in classrooms, kitchen table learning, micro-schools, tutoring pods, and even virtual sessions.
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Super Helpful Tips and Tricks for Teaching Students Accenting
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…
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Easy Tips and Tricks To Use with Students for Accenting Words (VIDEO)
Teaching Beginning Accenting in Orton Gillingham
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12 Tutoring and Teaching Hurdles and How to Turn Them Into Wins
12 ways to help keep teaching and tutoring on track. Orton Gillingham is a phonics, rule-based approach to teaching and learning the English language. Using a scope and sequence makes it a cumulative, thorough approach to teaching English to both kids and adults. Orton Gillingham training teaches how to use multi-sensory learning to teach all of this and more!
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Syllable Division and How To Divide Words in Structured Literacy
Syllable division is a way of breaking down multi-syllabic words into more digestible parts for easier reading and spelling. We teach syllable types first, then move into syllable division. Orton Gillingham is a phonics, rule-based approach to teaching and learning the English language. Using a scope and sequence makes it a cumulative approach to teaching English,
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What Do You Know About Vowels? You’ll Know More Now. Plus, Know the Vowel Decks! (VIDEO)
Vowels and vowel sounds are the building blocks of the English language. Orton Gillingham is a phonics, rule-based approach to teaching and learning the English language. Using a scope and sequence makes it a cumulative, thorough approach to teaching English to both kids and adults. Orton Gillingham training teaches how to use multi-sensory learning to teach all of this and more.
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What Do You Know About Vowels? Now You Know Much, Much More
We can provide our students with facts to help them recognize and learn more and more about the English Language. Let’s explore some facts about vowels. Orton Gillingham is a phonics, rule-based approach to teaching and learning the English language. Orton Gillingham Training teaches how to use multi-sensory learning to teach all of this and more!
