What is the Orton-Gillingham approach?

The Orton-Gillingham Approach is a tool that empowers instructors as they develop a structured, individualized, and multisensory plan to teach reading and language skills that is especially beneficial for students with dyslexia.

Is phonics for reading Orton-Gillingham based?

Orton-Gillingham (OG) is an educational approach, not a curriculum, for teaching the structure and code of the English language. The philosophy has been in use since the 1930s and relies on phonics and progresses from teaching the fundamentals of word-formation to advanced decoding of language.

Is phonics first part of Orton-Gillingham?

Rooted in the Orton-Gillingham principles of instruction, Phonics First uses scientifically research-based learning strategies to teach students systematic processes for decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling).

How do you teach an Orton-Gillingham lesson?

Here is a step by step explanation (with a video) on what an Orton-Gillingham lesson looks like.

  1. Step 1: Review with Sound Cards.
  2. Step 2: Introduce a New Skill.
  3. Step 3: The Blending Drill in the Orton-Gillingham Lesson.
  4. Step 4: Red Words in the Orton-Gillingham Lesson.
  5. Step 6: Writing.
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What are the core principles of phonics first?

Always, children first develop phonological and phonemic awareness: learning to segment words into phonemes, to blend phonemes into word parts and words, and to rhyme and play with language. Simultaneously, children learn the alphabetic principle—learning letter names and sounds and formation.

What is the difference between Wilson and Orton-Gillingham?

The Wilson Program is a younger reading program that operates with elements of OG but has a tiered system of approach. The program is direct and systematic in its approach and is a structured literacy program. Though it is research-based it has not been scientifically proven.