What is Orton-Gillingham?

 

OG Information From the IMSE Website: 

 

 

"The History of Orton-Gillingham

 

Orton-Gillingham was among the first teaching approaches designed to help struggling readers by explicitly teaching the connections between letters and sounds. In the 1930s, neuropsychiatrist and pathologist Dr. Samuel T. Orton and educator, psychologist Anna Gillingham developed the Orton-Gillingham approach to reading instruction for students with "word-blindness," which would later become known as dyslexia. Their approach combined direct, multi-sensory teaching strategies paired with systematic, sequential lessons focused on phonics.

 

IMSE has spent decades crafting its approach based on the Orton-Gillingham methodology, the science of reading, and practical implementation in the classroom. 

 

 

What Orton-Gillingham is all about

 

Orton-Gillingham is a highly structured approach that breaks reading and spelling down into smaller skills involving letters and sounds, and then building on these skills over time. It was the first approach to use explicit, direct, sequential, systematic, multi-sensory instruction to teach reading, which is not only effective for all students but essential for teaching students with dyslexia."

 

 

 

 

 

Please check out the IMSE website for information about the company, their mission, and their resources, many of which are free! There are structured literacy activities that will reach learners of all ages! 

 

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