Orton-Gillingham Reading & Spelling Tutoring (Intensive Dyslexia Tutoring)

Completed by 2 learners

Ages 6-11

Live Group Class

Private tutoring for students who need to strengthen their phonics foundations from a trained Orton-Gillingham tutor and former public school teacher

Angie Persing

Average rating:

5.0

Number of reviews:

(24 reviews)

Live video meetings

1x per week, 8 weeks

1-6 learners per class

50 min

About Learning Overview Teacher Reviews

What's included

8 live meetings

6 hrs 40 mins in-class hours

Class Experience

TUTORING FOR STRUGGLING READERS

I am a trained Orton-Gillingham tutor and former elementary school teacher with a degree in Early Childhood General and Special Education. In tutoring, I will first assess your student's decoding and encoding (reading and spelling) skills, and then use that information to determine which skills I think are ready to learn next. (NOTE: I am not a diagnostician, and cannot determine whether or not your student has dyslexia. I am only assessing reading/spelling skills in order to find an effective starting point in tutoring.)

I will then tutor using a program called Orton-Gillingham Plus, created by Fran Bowman. Orton-Gillingham Plus tutoring is not "homework help". This is a systematic program designed to help your student master the sound/spelling linkages needed to crack the code of the English language and become a more fluent reader and more accurate speller.

This program is:

SYNTHETIC - Students will be explicitly taught a sound/spelling linkage and THEN asked to read/spell words that have those linkages. They won't have to "pick up on patterns" or play reading guessing games.

PHONETIC - We focus on the sounds that make up words and connecting those sounds to letters/groups of letters.

MULTISENSORY - We use mirrors, pom poms, whiteboards, slinkys and more! (See Supply List.) Students can better engage with and retain new skills when they're using all their senses to learn.

CUMULATIVE - In general, we do not move on to a new skill until I think your student has mastered the previous reading skill. Students will not have to become overwhelmed with applying lots of new information at once.

In general, each lesson contains:
-Phonological awareness practice
-review of sound-spelling linkages already learned
-review of irregular sight words
-new sight words
-new sound-spelling linkage
-practice reading and spelling words/sentences using the new sound-spelling linkage
-reading a passage for fluency

Learning Goals

My goal is that:
Students will improve their ability to encode (spell) and decode (read) words and sentences.
Students will improve their fluency with reading passages.

Other Details

Parental Guidance

We may occassionally use Peardeck - an interactive PowerPoint tool. I send students a link to the Peardeck powerpoints. I do not require students to use an account to access our Peardeck materials. They log on anonymously. We will also use Google Slides and Google Docs. I will share my screen for students to see games, words and sentences we're reading, etc. We will also use Google Jamboard - another interactive PowerPoint tool. I send students a link to the Jamboards. I do not require students to use an account to access our Google Jamboards. They log on anonymously.

Supply List

(1) Compact mirror

(2) Small pom poms - must have 6 colors

(3) 12" x 16" double-sided magnetic whiteboard. LINK TO AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/Ncozwo-Hanging-Whiteboard-Magnetic-Portable/dp/B08SQWF6H7/ref=sr_1_6?crid=CXFKZST3KGH3&keywords=18%2Bx%2B12%2Bdouble%2Bsided%2Bwhiteboard&qid=1651861862&sprefix=18%2Bx%2B12%2Bdouble%2Bsided%2Bwhiteboard%2Caps%2C88&sr=8-6&th=1

(4) Whiteboard markers (if you buy whiteboard @ link, it comes with whiteboard markers)

(5) Dry Erase Crayons. LINK TO AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/Crayola-Washable-Dry-Erase-Sharpener-Non-Toxic/dp/B002TU4OHY/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2B8H2EFFONDAD&keywords=dry+erase+crayons&qid=1651862645&sprefix=dry+erase+cr%2Caps%2C93&sr=8-2

(6) Slinky

(7) Unlined paper

(8) Pencils, crayons, markers

*Depending on what skills we're learning, your student may also need playdough, sticky notes, etc. I will let you know ahead of time if we need any extra multisensory supplies

External Resources

In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:

Meet the teacher

Angie Persing

Joined March, 2021

5.0

24reviews

Profile

Teacher expertise and credentials

2 Degrees

Bachelor's Degree in Special Education from University of Maryland

Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education from University of Maryland

Hi! I’m Angie Persing.

I am bringing my experience as a second grade teacher and private tutor to Outschool to teach math, reading, and performing arts!

In my math classes, we learn how to explain our thinking about addition and subtraction, and how to explain one problem in different ways. I am a trained Orton-Gillingham tutor, and offer private reading and spelling tutoring for students with dyslexia.

In my performing arts classes, we learn how to write and tell good stories that will impact our audiences.

My classroom is a place where we live the following values:
-we learn best when we feel safe to make mistakes and take risks
-we learn how to think instead of just what to think
-we work together and teach each other to create the best ideas

I can't wait to learn with you!