Reading: An Introduction To The Orton Gillingham Approach
Reading: An Introduction To The Orton Gillingham Approach
Reading: An Introduction To The Orton Gillingham Approach
Decoding Comprehension
Components of reading
The Orton Gillingham Approach is used for persons with
learning difficulties in reading writing and spelling.
• Direct
• Explicit
• Multisensory
• Structured
• Sequential
• Diagnostic
• Prescriptive
Basic Features
• Barton Reading Program – only encoding/decoding, lay
person teaching.
• Wilson reading System (WRS) – mainly designed for
adolescents. Tapping
• Lindamood Bell program – one on one instruction
• Preventing Academic Failure – class level instruction,
more word attack strategies, includes sight words too,
reading comprehension is also addressed.
• Raising Robust Readers -
Reading /writing
programs based on OG
For the OG program to be effective PA is done as a pre –
requisite to reading.
Phonological Awareness
Expected Phonological Awareness Skills
Development of PA
• Listening and discriminating between similar and
different sounds
• Rhyming
• Alliteration
• Sentence segmentation
• Word Syllabication
• Onset and rime
• Phonemic Awareness – segmenting, blending, omission,
synthesis, manipulation
Phonological Awareness
All instruction is multisensorial, and multi modal – reading spelling and
writing at the same time.
• Starts with pure sounds at the letter stage (phonograms). Letters are
not taught in the traditional a-z manner but in a sequence that follows
linguistic development in children. (later other graphemes.)
• Blend sounds to read and spell words (/t/+/a/ + /n/)
• Red words – non phonetic words (the, a, said)
• Syllables, prefixes and suffixes
• Spelling rules
• punctuation
• Decodable text
• Application of comprehension strategies.
OG Approach in PAF
• Review - previously learnt material, or even material
that the student requires for the new skill.
• Introduction to new material – phonograms, sight words,
suffixes (later prefixes), Syllable types and syllable
division, Spelling rules.
• Spelling dictation
• Reading – lists, decodable text
• Reinforcement – independent additional practice.
Session in OG