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Why Orton Gillingham?

Orton Gillingham can be used for any student struggling to read, no matter their age or skill set. Skills addressed in Orton lessons include:

Letter Name and Sound Recognition
Letter Formation
Decoding (Reading)
Encoding (Spelling)
Phonological Awareness (Identifying and manipulating units of oral language – parts such as words, syllables, and onsets and rimes)
Phonemic Awareness (The ability to focus on and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words)
Reading Fluency
Reading Comprehension
Morphology (Understanding base words, prefixes, and suffixes)
Written Expression

The Orton-Gillingham Approach sees the student as an individual.

By encouraging students to master reading and language skills in an individualized way, students play an essential role in their learning.

Orton-Gillingham implements a multisensory approach to reading

Orton-Gillingham can combine sight, hearing, touch, and movement into everyday instruction to help students understand the relationship between letters, sounds, and words.

The Orton-Gillingham Approach breaks down reading into smaller skills.

The Orton-Gillingham Approach breaks down reading into smaller, more manageable skills that build on each other so students achieve mastery on their own timeline.