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Developing Literacy for Struggling Learners & Children with Dyslexia

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The Orton-Gillingham (OG) Approach

About OG

The Orton-Gillingham Approach is the leading approach for teaching reading and writing to struggling readers and children with Dyslexia. Developed by Samuel Orton and Anna Gillingham in the 1930s, this approach is the basis of many popular reading programs like Wilson Reading Systems, The Sonday System, and Barton Reading System. 


This approach identifies children’s current skills, and allows the instructor to create an individual reading program to teach phonological awareness, letter-sound correspondence, handwriting, reading, spelling, reading fluency, morphology, vocabulary, comprehension, and written expression.  The skills are then taught in a multi-sensory way that maximizes visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile processes to help build reading and writing skills.

Links for Parents & Educators

Academy of Orton-Gillingham


Institute for Multi-Sensory Education


International Dyslexia Association


The Reading League


Understood


Made by Dyslexia


Reading Rockets


The Science of Reading

Principles of Orton-Gillingham Instruction

Diagnostic & Prescriptive

Evaluations help identify a child’s current skill level and guide where to begin instruction. Continuous monitoring of verbal, non-verbal, and written responses guide future lessons and help to identify student challenges and progress.

Personalized

Lessons are created for each individual student so their unique needs are met. Considerations of their unique profiles will guide instructional strategies and tools.

Systematic & Structured

Linguistic concepts and phonics skills are presented in an ordered way that indicates relationships between new material and previously taught material.

Sequential, Incremental, and Cumulative

Content is taught step by step so students can move from simple to more complex concepts. Shifts in content are based on mastery of taught skills.

Multisensory

Instruction is focused on using all learning pathways - Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, and Tactile. Students practice seeing, hearing, feeling, and using motions to build neural connections in their brains and increase literacy skills.

Emotionally Sound

Students feelings about themselves and learning are considered within each lesson. Teaching is structured to provide successful experiences, increase confidence, and increase motivation.

Sources

Gillingham, A. and Stillman, B., 2004. The Gillingham Manual. Cambridge, Mass: Educators Publ. Service.

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