This blog is in response to a question posted on Facebook by Reyna. She asked me how to help one of her students, a boy who is extremely active and is struggling to hold his sight words in his long-term memory. Firstly before we start, what are these sight words...
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Schools and teachers that embrace multisensory teaching methods employ a learning style that benefits all students. More importantly, they are providing pathways for children with specific learning disabilities to learn and access age-appropriate curriculums and then demonstrate what they know. A teacher is using multisensory teaching methods when his or...
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Last week I did an Orton-Gillingham Foundation course with the amazing Canadian, Corey Zylstra as our facilitator. Here is 7 things I learnt about Orton-Gillingham under her amazing tutorage. Orthography is the written system of spelling patterns and correspondences between speech and print. Note: Not be confused with Ornithology which...
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The Orton-Gillingham approach, first introduced in the 1920’s, is still widely in use today across Canada, USA and world-wide as not only an approach for remediating language-based learning difficulties, but as evidence-based reading and spelling instruction for all students in mainstream education.     “Many years ago, as Samuel Orton...
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Learning Latin has become a breeze for some of the inmates in the Wyoming Department of Corrections, thanks to the Orton-Gillingham methodology the educational staff has implemented into the curriculum. Orton-Gillingham is a structured, phonics-based multi-sensory approach to teaching students to read. Teacher Gloria Wolf last year received training from...
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If so you may use words and phrases like See Look View Appear Show me Appraise I saw that I can visualize that It just dawned on me Reveal the answer I can envision that I can see that happening Illuminate Let me draw a picture of that I’ll take...
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What is meant by multisensory teaching? Multisensory teaching is one important aspect of instruction for dyslexic students that is used by clinically trained teachers. Effective instruction for students with dyslexia is also explicit, direct, cumulative, intensive, and focused on the structure of language. Multisensory learning involves the use of visual,...
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I have written The Alphabet Sound Song to help teach people the sounds of the English alphabet. The song has 5 choruses and 4 verses. Research shows that if you provide learners with repetition, and make the learning fun and rewarding, the repetition helps them to remember what they learn....
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If you live overseas in the UK you may already have heard about a multisensory program called ‘Touch Type Read Spell (TTRS)’. I purchased a home user licence for my children for TTRS here in Australia and we used it nearly every day for months at a time as my...
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