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Orton-Gillingham Instruction

Helping Children and Adults Learn and Succeed

Orton-Gillingham is a proven method of reading instruction that targets multiple areas of reading and spelling acquisition. This program is proven to be highly successful with all learners from child to adult and across all spectrums of language-based learning disabilities. This approach is the best remediation program that assists Dyslexic learners continue their path to reading discovery and success. This tutoring program is an authentic Orton-Gillingham learning program provided by a certificated Dyslexia Orton-Gillingham provider.

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National Certification

CERI Certified

C-SLDI Certification with the Center for Effective Reading Instruction

CERI certifications identify that an educator possesses the knowledge and skills necessary to implement Structured Literacy practices in the service of preventing reading failure, advancing off-track readers, and remediating the reading profiles of students with reading disorders, including Dyslexia.

To achieve this status, practitioners must complete a very extensive certification process with case studies, accredited program completion, college coursework, supervised practicum, passing of a national exam, and other challenging criteria to demonstrate the provider’s standards of excellence in this field.

To see the rigorous requirements necessary to achieve the high quality status of a Certified Structured Literacy Dyslexia Interventionist, click on the “CERI Certification Process” button below.

CERI Certification Process

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Why Use Orton-Gillingham?

Orton-Gillingham is an systematic approach of reading instruction that serves to remediate reading difficulties due to dyslexia, auditory processing, speech deficits, and other learning differences. This is an evidence-based program that is highly effective reading instruction for students with Dyslexia.

The Principles of the Orton-Gillingham Approach

Every lesson in Orton-Gillingham is organized around strategies and activities that are the building blocks for structured English language. Skills are taught in a logical order and sequence. Instruction begins with the simplest of syllable types - the short vowel (CVC). Students will move as fast as they can but as slow as they need. The lessons progress step by step to more complex systems such as vowel patterns, multisyllabic words, spelling rules, affixes, and morphemes. Each Orton-Gillingham lesson builds upon itself. In every Orton-Gillingham lesson, the instructor uses the student’s sensory pathways: auditory, visual, and tactile for successful holistic language instruction. The combination of listening, looking, and moving creates memory retention for the student. A student only progresses to the next level when a skill is mastered. As students learn new concepts, they continue to review old concepts that are intertwined with current principles until concepts are stored in the student’s long term memory. Repetition and scaffolding is key to success.

The program begins with the systematic introduction of phonics, beginning with the alphabetic principles in the initial stages of reading development and advancing to more complex principles as the student progresses. Students learn that words are made up of segmented speech sounds, and the letters of written words graphically representing each of these speech sounds. Students are taught spelling rules and rule breakers (and the brief linguistic explanation as to why they appear as "rule breakers"). To assure sound knowledge of phonemic principles are present, students must also be able to encode and decode nonsense words to truly demonstrate their language mastery.

The Orton-Gillingham Lesson

The Orton-Gillingham instructor uses modeling, student interaction, continual feedback, and data collection when delivering an Orton-Gillingham lesson. The lesson utilizes a clear scope and sequence as reading, writing, and spelling instruction are integrated within each Orton-Gillingham lesson. Eighty percent of the English language is decodable. Orton-Gillingham serves to teach the complex rules of our written language in a sequential order of instruction building from simple to complex skills.

A Sample Lesson Plan Outline:

Visual drill (phonogram cards or slides)
Auditory drill (dictated phonograms)
Vowel Intensives (for those learners struggling with short vowel sounds)
Sound blending (reading words by tapping out individual sounds)
Review of previously taught skills
Introduce a new phonogram/concept/rule/syllable and Base/Affix instruction (for older learners)
Spelling activities
Sentence writing and grammar usage
Oral reading with decodable and controlled text
Associated comprehension and vocabulary

Using the predetermined scope and sequence, the instructor will plan the next lesson based on how the student performed in the current lesson so all lessons are tailored for each student.

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Engaging

This approach uses multiple pathways to help kids learn. For example, students might learn the letter by seeing it, saying its name and sounding it out while writing it with their fingers on a paint bag or in shaving cream.

Understanding

Students are taught language through the true understanding of the “how” and “why” behind the English language and this highlights the “secrets” to reading and language development.

Exploring

Students may explore why the letter s sounds one way in the word pets /s/, and another way in the word bugs /z/. They learn such concepts as an "s" between two vowels will make the /z/ sound (ex. "wise, visit"). Once they know consistent rules and patterns, they’re better able to decode words on their own.

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Orton-Gillingham Approach

The Orton-Gillingham Approach places emphasis on multisensory learning modalities to expand reading, writing, and spelling development. This phonics-based approach incorporates all senses making it highly effective in decoding and encoding development. Instructors trained in Orton-Gillingham can combine sight, sound, feeling, and kinesthetic movement into engaging instruction to help students understand the relationship between letters, sounds, and words. Games and activities are also important to instruction for students to truly enjoy their learning and tutoring experience.

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Multi-Sensory, Structured, and Explicit Instruction

Paint Power!

Paint bags are used for encoding and decoding drills. Paint bags are strategically colored to match the Wilson Reading sound cards and chart.

Activities and Drills

Race to Read!

Something as simple as road maps with cars with the added component of real and nonsense words and sounds can make learning fun!

Reading Games

Shaving Cream Spelling!

Students will shaving cream to write sounds and words orally dictated to them. Students enjoy the sensory of shaving cream to demonstrate their mastery of concepts.

Activities and Drills

WOW Whiteboard Writing!

Students will use whiteboards and lots of different colors to expand on their writing and combine mastered decodable and sight words to form sentences in no time!