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The Literacy Nest is the decodable text source for a wide variety of text to support your students with a systematic, sequential progression. This Orton-Gillingham based stories resource is for LEVEL TWO instruction. This set includes decodable passages with controlled text to aid in decoding and fluency. (Level two is based on the O-G progression I follow.)
The Literacy Nest is the decodable text source for a wide variety of text to support your students with a systematic, sequential progression. This Orton-Gillingham based reading passages is for LEVEL ONE instruction. This set includes decodable passages with controlled text to aid in decoding and fluency. (Level one is based on the O-G progression I follow.)
You know the importance of quality Orton-Gillingham decodable texts to support the Science of Reading and your students during your structured literacy lessons. When seeking materials to support your Orton-Gillingham lesson plans, The Literacy Nest has the decodable texts that support your students with a systematic, sequential progression. The Let’s Read Decodable Bundle includes over 160 decodable passages that your students will love reading with success.
As an adult, I can look at these challenging times and think how we are currently living through historical events. I have the gift of age and perspective. Although none of us have ever experienced anything like this pandemic, for your children the challenges they face can be particularly difficult to process and understand. One…
When someone says poetry, my immediate image is classical poetry forms such as sonnets. But I also have fond memories of reading Shel Silverstein poems or writing structured poetry forms like haiku when I was a child. Often, poetry is not one of the things people think of when they think of challenged readers. However,…
We are certainly living in challenging times right now. For our students with dyslexia, the specialized instruction they get through Orton-Gillingham lessons is extra important. Many students may not be getting the literacy support throughout their day that they would in a school setting. With a little creativity and flexibility, it is possible to deliver…
GE or DGE? Your student knows more than they think! Whether to use -ge or -dge at the end of a word is the fourth of the short vowel spelling generalizations. Teaching the GE/DGE Spelling Generalization This spelling generalization states: Some words that follow this generalization include: Bridge fudge ledge badge lodge Bulge hinge large …
The spelling generalizations for vowels really are cumulative. Although it may take a lot of practice for your students to internalize them, an understanding of the principles at work is very important. As your students continue to learn less frequent vowel teams, they will need to draw on their knowledge about other vowel teams and…
When you’re thinking about spelling a word with OI or OY, location is everything. In some ways, the /oy/ sound is one of the more straightforward vowel teams and spelling generalizations that your students learn during their Orton-Gillingham lessons. The /oy/ sound really only has 2 spellings: oi and oy and the letters oi and…