A 35 week curriculum of daily phonemic awareness lesson plans developed on a systematic scope and sequence of skills with explicit modeling.

Orton Gillingham Phonics. 100 activities to help kids with dyslexia and struggle readers to improve their writing and reading skills. Volume 1. Orton-Gillingham Approach uses systematic phonics to teach language and promote mastery in students with dyslexia. This approach encourages students to grasp the sound-symbol relationship that is necessary to understand alphabetic systems of writing. In this book you will find a multitude of activities that will help your students improve their writing, reading and sound recognition. Specifically in this book you have exercises to: - Help the child guess a word from a drawing and write it - Find and mark open syllables - Differentiate between short and long vowels - Differentiate between open and closed syllables - Blank lines for the instructor to dictate And many other exercises more prepared for the child to practice with different phonics The Orton Gillingham methodology is not a new methodology. It has been used around the world and validated in classrooms since the 1980s. The Orton Gillingham methodology provides the teacher or instructor with a way to develop a structured, individualized and multisensory reading and language skills plan. Orton Gillingham Methodology instructors encourage students to master their reading and language skills on an individual basis. The Orton Gillingham methodology places special emphasis on multisensory education. Since students with dyslexia lack a level of phonemic arareness, learning to read through phonics incorporating all the senses is highly effective.

Provides an explanation of phonics, a method of reading instruction that focuses on the relationship between sounds and their spellings, and features over one hundred activities for the classroom, as well as sample lessons, word lists, and teaching strategies.

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Contains one hundred sixty lessons for teachers to use when teaching language arts to grades 1-3. Includes reproducibles.