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Schwa Sound Spelling Activities for Orton-Gillingham Lesson Plans

Schwa Sound Spelling Activities for Orton-Gillingham Lesson Plans

SCHWA sounds can be challenging for students, but this phonics pack has everything you need to use a multisensory approach to teach SCHWA for reading and spelling. It is suitable for Orton-Gillingham instruction and other reading interventions to encourage phonemic awareness.

This SCHWA resource focuses on the following SCHWA sounds:
-en, -et, -al, -on, -om, -op

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7 Tips For Helping Students Recognize Patterns In Words
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7 Tips For Helping Students Recognize Patterns In Words

There are several reasons why recognizing patterns in words is difficult for our students with dyslexia. Dyslexia often causes difficulty linking the phonemic analysis with the orthographic patterns. This means that a student not only has difficulty correctly hearing, analyzing, and identifying the separate sounds in a word, but in putting the sequence of letters…

The Organized Orton-Gillingham Teacher: Part 2
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The Organized Orton-Gillingham Teacher: Part 2

In part 1 of this series, we discussed modeling organization, as an organized Orton-Gillingham teacher, for our students both through our own organized space and in more explicit ways such as how to set up a dictation paper. Organization and executive functioning skills are frequent areas of difficulty for students with dyslexia. By implementing some…

Orton-Gillingham Phonics Activities Bundle

Orton-Gillingham Phonics Activities Bundle

This Orton-Gillingham Phonics Bundle will help you achieve a systematic and explicit approach to structured literacy in your classroom. This is a structured literacy bundle to support your Orton-Gillingham lessons, the science of reading and multisensory teaching techniques. Many people asked for an Orton-Gillingham phonics bundle from my store that only includes the phonics activities and it’s now available. 

When Older Students Need Support with Alphabetic Knowledge
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When Older Students Need Support with Alphabetic Knowledge

When I used to work for public schools, I noticed that assessments like letter identification or letter/sound correspondences were frequently only assessed during Kindergarten and the first half of 1st grade, regardless of whether students ever reached mastery. In most cases, the alphabetical knowledge and sequence were never assessed. When I was completing my Orton-Gillingham…

Early Literacy Tips to Support Language Development at Home

Early Literacy Tips to Support Language Development at Home

When we talk about language or English Language Arts and dyslexia, we are most often referring to reading and writing. But truly, language encompasses more. When students learn a foreign language, reading, writing, speaking, and listening are the necessary skills. For young children developing their language skills, these are the same categories. In general, speaking…

How is Orton-Gillingham Diagnostic and Prescriptive?

How is Orton-Gillingham Diagnostic and Prescriptive?

All who are trained in Orton-Gillingham have something in common and that is that we follow this specific set of principles of the approach. These principles are the interwoven thread and commonality between everyone trained in Orton-Gillingham.  In a previous post, I covered What does Explicit, Systematic and Sequential Teaching Look Like? All of these…

5 Tips for Ensuring Effective Routines in Orton-Gillingham Lessons
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5 Tips for Ensuring Effective Routines in Orton-Gillingham Lessons

Routines are an important part of Orton-Gillingham instruction for a number of reasons. Time is a precious commodity when working with students with dyslexia. Routines make lessons more efficient. Students know what to expect when there are well-established routines. This reduces stress and anxiety, but also requires less language when transitioning from one activity to…