Orton Gillingham Decodable Readers: let's practice long and short vowels. Workbook with decodable texts to help struggling readers to read. Black & White Edition. Volume 2. The "decodable readers" are books that are contrived to support kids practice a particular letter-sound pattern shown as part of a synthetic phonics curriculum. Books like this have no storyline; they are equally nonsensical whether you begin on the first page, or start on the last page and read backward. A book must be worth reading and provide kids the chance to discover the full spectrum of strategies needed to understand any book. In this book, we have included texts for the student to read and identify certain words within it. You will find that after each text the child is asked questions so that he not only focuses on reading but also on understanding and retaining certain data that the text teaches us. The book is reinforced with other activities that break the monotony and make it fun and challenging for the child, such as identifying the name of the given picture making sentences with the given word finding certain words in a word search and crossword puzzles. In this book we work on the letter 'e' Short 'e' ...................................page 1-17 Long 'e' (ee words).....................page 18-28 Long 'e' (ea words)....................page 29-40 Long 'e' (y words)......................page 41-50 Long 'e' (ey words).....................page 51-61 Long 'e' (e words).......................page 62-72 Long 'e' words activities................page 73-77 Resources..................................page 78-114 Look for other BrainChild titles available on Amazon.com

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.

This workbook includes activities based on the Orton Gillingham methodology that introduce skills involved with Letter knowledge, Alphabetical order, Sound identification, Rhyming words, Sight words, and Homophones.

Describes the reading education system and provides detailed instructions and diagnostic tests for use by parents.

In this multisensory phonics technique, students first learn the sounds of letters, and the build these letter-sounds into words. Visual, auditory and kinesthetic associations are used to remember the concepts. Training is recommended.

- A comprehensive resource to help dyslexic students. By organizing our complex language into predictable patterns, the student will gain confidence and achieve success in reading fluency. - Consists of 12 levels, organized from simple to complex in an Orton Gillingham sequence of instruction. - Foundational skills are taught before more advanced skills are introduced. Students will learn and master short vowels, complex vowel teams, 2-syllable words and words with prefixes and suffixes. - This resource promotes explicit and systematic reading instruction using word lists. The book is organized in specific spelling patterns, which enables the student to achieve automaticity using their knowledge of phonics. - Fluency makes an ideal adjunct or accessory to other intervention programs. - This resource enhances grapheme-phoneme associations, including tracking sheets and motivating activities.These word lists can be used to enhance vocabulary and language/reading comprehension as well as spelling and writing.

Never search for a word again! Lesson planning will be so easy when you can look up any word with these amazing word lists. Letter teams are listed for each word, so you know immediately if its a fair word for your students. Templates make it easy to create matrixes, blending charts, games, and more. This dictionary works with any curriculum or program. The Orton-Gillingham Word List Dictionary Volume 1 provides you with word lists for consonants, short vowels, blends, FLOSS, end blends, and compound words, including inflectional forms with -s, -es, 's, -ing, -ed, -er/-ar/-or, and -est. Each letter or letter team is accompanied by rules and tips for usage, such as when to use ck and when to use k, why words end with double letters, which letter teams are voiced or unvoiced, which blends are used both at the beginning and end of words, and more! Future volumes (coming soon!) will cover long vowels, vowel teams, digraphs, trigraphs, and all the other letter teams used in OG lessons. Everything you need to teach or tutor students in any Orton-Gillingham program will be at your fingertips.

An educational toolkit for teaching phonics, consisting of a book, posters and musical CD, all of which provides for multiple options and inputs for learning, including: visual-icons, auditory and kinesthetic motor skill manipulations, as well as a variety of dramatic and emotive cuing-systems designed to target the affective learning domain. This "backdoor-approach" to phonemic skill acquisition is based on current neural research on Learning & the Brain--specifically how our brains actually learn best!The Secret Stories® primary purpose is to equip beginning (or struggling, upper grade) readers and writers, as well as their instructors, with the tools necessary to easily and effectively crack the secret reading and writing codes that lie beyond the alphabet, and effectively out of reach for so many learners! It is not a phonics program! Rather, it simply provides the missing pieces learners need to solve the complex reading puzzle--one that some might never solve otherwise! The Secrets(tm) are sure to become one of the most valuable, well-used, and constantly relied-upon teaching tools in your instructional repertoire!

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.

Suggesting that the contention that phonemic awareness must be taught directly and that children need explicit systematic instruction in phonics is less of a scientific "fact" than an exercise in political persuasion, this book presents the story of the political campaign that is taking place to change the minds of Americans about how young children learn to read. The book begins with a close look at the empirical research being used to support a massive shift in the national understandings about language, literacy, and learning and concludes by revealing the ways in which research studies on early reading instruction are being used by the federal and state governments to support a new methodology that has turned early reading instruction into "a massive business of unprecedented commercial worth." The chapters in the book are: (1) In Which We Are Told Training in Phonemic Awareness Is the Key to Reading Success; (2) In Which Phonemic Awareness Research Is Analyzed from an Experimental Psychological Perspective; (3) In Which Phonemic Awareness Research Is Analyzed from a Sociocultural Perspective; (4) In Which We Find Foorman's Research Does Not Support the NICHD [National Institute of Child Health and Human Development] Proposition That "Phonological Processing Is the Primary Area Where Children with Reading Difficulties Differ from Other Children"; (5) In Which Teachers Are Turned into Clerks and We Discuss Power, Privilege, Racism and Hegemony; (6) In Which Governor Bush's Business Council Holds a Pre-Summit Meeting in Texas; (7) In Which We Have an"If-They-Say-It's-So-It-Must-Be-So" Attitude toward Experimental Research; (8) In Which the Kindergarten Children in North Carolina Are No Longer Expected To Try To Read and Write; (9) In Which I Become the Documentation on Which I Build My Case; (10) In Which We Are Told That in America We Are All Equal. Are We or Aren't We?; (11) In Which We Find the Desks and Chairs Are Broken and the Toilets Don't Work; (12) In Which We Ask: Do You Think America Likes Children?; (13) In Which We Consider If We Are Comfortable Mandating Reading Programs based on Neuroimaging Research and Genetic Studies of Reading Disabilities; (14) In Which California Politically Reinvents How Young Children Learn To Read; (15) In Which California Ends Local Control and the State Board of Education Leads the Jihad; and (16) In Which We Enter the Central Chamber of the Hegemonic Labyrinth. (Contains approximately 250 references; an appendix that offers a response to preliminary statistical analyses used to support the nationally publicized findings of the NICHD Houston reading studies, and an appendix that offers "late-breaking" news about the NICHD Houston reading studies are attached.) (RS)