Welcome to our spelling class.  Orton-Gillingham method!  Orton–Gillingham is a structured literacy approach. It introduced the idea of breaking reading and spelling down into smaller skills involving letters and sounds, and then building on these skills over time.  The teaching of new concepts incorporates visual, auditory, and kinesthetic pathways. With this approach, students learn language by ear (listening), mouth (speaking), eyes (seeing), and hand (writing).  Orton-Gillingham takes the overall reading, writing and spelling concepts and breaks them down into smaller segments through use of repeated practice, sequencing and systematic approach that allows children to better master phonic skills associated with simple letters/letter sounds into more complex phonic skills.  In this class learners will interact with both teacher and students.  This class is taught by a professionally trained Orton-Gillingham teacher. Each lesson will include sounds cards, phonemic awareness activities, word lists, visual memory exercises, sight word exercises, decodable stories, and extra phonics activities. 

Here is a breakdown of our topics:

Week of June 19th- Short a
Week of June 26th- Short i
Week of July 3rd- Short o
Week of July 10th- Short l
Week of July 17th- Short E
Week of July 24th-  Digraph sh
Week of July 31st- Digraph ch
Week of August 7th- Digraph th
Week of August 14th- Digraph ck
Week of August 21st- Digraph wh

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Week of August 28th- Floss words
Week of September 4th- am an all
Week of September 11th- Suffix -s
Week of September 18th- nk and ng words
Week of September 25th- beginning blends
Week of October 2nd- ending blends
Week of October 9th- blends on both ends
Week of October 16th-FALL BREAK
Week of October 23rd- -ck & -tch
Week of October 30th- suffixes -ed & -ing
Week of November 6th- silent e CVE
Week of November 13th- silent e reinforcement
Week of November 20th-HOLIDAY BREAK
Week of November 27th- 2 syllable words
Week of December 4th- W before a and o
Week of December 11th- Words with s and es
Week of December 18th- Closed syllable Exceptions
Week of December 25th-HOLIDAY BREAK
Week of January 1st-HOLIDAY BREAK
Week of January 8th- Words with K CK and C
Week of January 15th- Prefixes and suffixes
Week of January 22nd- Y as a vowel
Week of January 29th- Open syllable in 2 syllable words
Week of February 5th- Teacher Choice
Week of February 12th- R controlled (ar)
Week of February 19th- R controlled (or)
Week of February 26th-  R controlled (er, ir, ur)
Week of March 4th- AI & AY
Week of March 11th- ee, ea, ey
Week of March 18th- oi & oy
Week of March 25th- a, oeo, ow
Week of April 1st- 2 sounds of oo
Week of April 8th-SPRING BREAK
Week of April 15th- 111 Rule
Week of April 22nd- -ou & ow
Week of April 29th- oo, ou, ew, ue
Week of May 6th- -au & aw
Week of May 13th- Final stable syllable C+le
Week of May 20th- Drop e
Week of May 27th- Schwa
Week of June 3rd- Y TO I
Week of June 10th- tion & sion

The curriculum will now start back at the beginning.