From Orton Gillingham Coaching (Video) Most tutors and teachers of Orton Gillingham have a student (or 10!) that confuse “b” and “d.” It’s a common challenge for kids, but throw in a dyslexia diagnosis, and it gets even harder. There are several strategies to use to help students overcome this issue. Most tutors and teachers…
Most students learn that -ed is a past tense ending… but then quickly get confused. Why does jumped sound different from loved?And why does painted suddenly have two syllables? The answer is simple—but it has to be taught clearly. The suffix -ed actually has three different sounds: /t/, /d/, and /ed/ (or /?d/). Once students…
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…
Where do we start? One question I think many tutors and teachers have when beginning Orton Gillingham as a teaching approach with students is, Where do I start? It’s a very reasonable question! My answer would be, start at the beginning. The reason for starting at the beginning is that Orton Gillingham is a sequential…
A scope and sequence is a plan – the teaching of a subject (the scope) in a specific sequence. Many subjects have scope and sequence plans. Orton Gillingham is no different – it is an extensive subject that needs to be broken down into bites for easy digestion if someone is going to teach it…
Fluency stories, sometimes called decodable passages, are a powerful tool in every phonics and reading program, including Orton Gillingham. If you’re a teacher, tutor, or parent, you already know that fluency matters. But how you use decodable passages can make a difference in helping students grow.
Possessive rules can be easy, but can also get a little tricky when we move beyond just adding ‘s. Possessive Rules are all about ownership and can be narrowed down to a couple of categories: singular and plural. Singular Possessive Rule Singular Possessive Rule is to show ownership for a singular owner, add ‘s to…
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