Orton-Gillingham

So, you’re heading to Orton-Gillingham training or just finished up. You sure know a lot about the Orton-Gillingham approach, but now what? Getting started with OG can be exciting and overwhelming. There are so many OG supplies and so much more to learn about structured literacy. Check out these Orton-Gillingham lesson-planning tips!

 

Orton-Gillingham Lesson Planning
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7 Time-Saving Tips for Streamlining Your Orton-Gillingham Lesson Planning

If you’re an Orton-Gillingham teacher, you know how rewarding this work can be. However, Orton-Gillingham lesson planning can be time-intensive. Between individualizing for students, tracking progress, and prepping multisensory materials, planning can easily eat up hours of your week. Luckily, there are practical, time-saving tips for streamlining your Orton-Gillingham lesson planning. Honestly, teachers can use…

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The Incredible Benefits of Word-Level Reading Practice

Why do people with dyslexia need word-level reading practice? The reasons for word-level practice go right to the heart of the challenges caused by dyslexia. When they encounter a new word, all readers go through a process of decoding that word to figure it out. However, with repeated exposure that word becomes one that is…

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Tips for Using Student Errors to Plan Orton-Gillingham Lessons

As Orton Gillingham practitioners, we want to examine student errors in reading and spelling very carefully. According to the OG principles, we are charged with being prescriptive and diagnostic. This involves carefully analyzing student errors, figuring out the root cause of the error, and planning to address that area of difficulty going forward. Simply put,…

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Orton-Gillingham Progression Charts Explained!

So you’re hearing about Orton-Gillingham progression charts? Let’s take a closer look at what that is. Most boxed curriculum programs, whether based on Orton-Gillingham or not, have a scope and sequence. The materials and lessons are arranged in a specific order and progress according to that scope and sequence. You can look at this scope…

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5 Tips for Choosing Decodable Books

Decodable text is one of the most important resources for an Orton-Gillingham or structured literacy instructor. Especially for students who have relied heavily on pictures and meaning-based guessing, decodable stories are very important for breaking unhelpful habits and reinforcing their emerging decoding skills. The number of decodable options has increased quite a bit over the…