Reading Help

 

The Orton-Gillingham Approach

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All our teaching and resources are rooted in the Orton-Gillingham Approach. This multisensory structured literacy approach works for people with dyslexia, as well as non-dyslexics who struggle with reading, writing, spelling, handwriting, math, and other academic subjects. The Orton-Gillingham Approach is supported by scientific evidence and has been used to help students read and spell since the 1930s.

Orton-Gillingham is a language-based, multisensory approach in which there is constant interaction between the student and the teacher to reinforce optimal learning. Auditory, visual, tactile, and kinesthetic elements are included in each lesson. Skills are strategically taught and reinforced when the student uses each of these sensory elements. Using all the sensory elements also helps enhance memory storage and retrieval.

The Orton-Gillingham approach is highly structured and systematic. Students do not move forward until they reach mastery at each level. When students learn new material, they are constantly reviewing what they have already learned and how the concepts relate to each other. The approach is diagnostic and prescriptive, and teachers ensure that the students understand what they are learning, not simply memorizing rules or patterns.

 

The Wilson Reading System

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The Wilson Reading System (WRS) is a highly structured literacy program based on phonological coding research and Orton-Gillingham principles. This multisensory reading and spelling program directly and systematically teaches the structure of the English language. It’s proven to be effective in teaching reading and spelling when traditional methods have failed.

This evidence-based program:

  • Teaches phonemic awareness, word study/phonics, fluency, sight word recognition, vocabulary, spelling, oral expressive language, and comprehension.

  • Addresses phonology (“sound system” of our language), morphology (study of word forms), and orthography (spelling rules) in the teaching of the structure of the English language in a systematic, cumulative manner.

  • Uses multisensory methods (visual, auditory, tactile, kinesthetic) to teach concepts.