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Smart and effective classroom management isn’t always easy but can be achievable! Check out these behavior management tips and classroom strategies for student engagement. We cover positive strategies like movement breaks and ideas for elementary and middle school, too!
Children with dyslexia often enter the intervention setting with very mixed feelings. Whether in a small group or one-on-one, it is crucial to build a trusting relationship to make the best possible progress. Beginning intervention or transitioning to a new teacher can provoke a lot of anxiety. It can feel very vulnerable to expose their…
There are many reasons to teach syllable division rules. Your students need a procedure to help them tackle long multisyllabic words. Mastering syllable division helps your students to access a much wider variety of printed material. The easiest and most common type of syllable division is division between consonants. In this post, we’ll look at…
Using Multisensory Teaching Techniques Multisensory learning strategies are crucial not just for kids with dyslexia, or within Orton-Gillingham lesson plans, it is good solid teaching for ALL students. Incorporating multisensory learning tools into your classroom lessons will not replace intervention services, but it will make classroom lessons more accessible to students with learning differences. …
Do you find yourself scratching your head when thinking about how to run an Orton-Gillingham in small groups during a typical school week? Here are some common problems that can arise: Let me start by saying this. YOU CANNOT MAKE EVERYONE HAPPY. YOU ARE NOT PIZZA. Now breathe. Need support creating your OG lesson plans?…
No one knows quite how to breathe new life into something old quite like a teacher. Since Orton-Gillingham students require extensive practice to reach mastery of the concepts being taught, one of the best ways to practice is to incorporate lots of games into your lessons. While card games are easy to make and effective…
Whether you are working in a mainstream classroom, in small groups, or in a one-on-one tutoring situation, you are bound to encounter the occasional challenging behaviors in Orton-Gillingham lessons. When choosing which techniques to best help a particular situation, I find it helpful to start with the ABCs of behavior. Getting to the root of…
Everyone needs movement in their life, am I right? For me personally, I love my Zumba classes or just dancing with my kids in the kitchen. Kids need to MOVE. Brain breaks have become increasingly important in classrooms as we have even more demands. I’m finding as a dyslexia practitioner using the Orton-Gillingham approach in…