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 September 2nd-Short a
Week of September 9th-Short i
Week of September 16th-Short o
Week of September 23rd-Short l
Week of September 30th-Short E
Week of October 7th-Diagraph sh
Week of October 14th-Diagraph ch
Week of October 21st-Diagraph th
Week of October 28th-Diagraph ck
Week of November 4th-Diagraph wh
Week of November 11th-Floss words
Week of November 18th-am an all
Week of November 25th-NO CLASS Fall Break
Week of December 2nd-Suffix -s
Week of December 9th-nk and ng words
Week of December 16th-beginning blend
Week of December 23rd-NO CLASS Winter Break
Week of December 30th-NO CLASS Winter Break
Week of January 6th-ending blends
Week of January 13th-blends on both ends
Week of January 20th-ck & -tch
Week of January 27th-suffixes -ed & -ing
Week of February 3rd-silent e CVE
Week of February 10th-silent e reinforcement
Week of February 17th-2 syllable words
Week of February 24th-W before a and o
Week of March 3rd-Words with s and es
Week of March 10th-Closed syllable Exceptions
Week of March 17th-Words with K CK and C
Week of March 24th-Prefixes and suffixes
Week of March 31st- Y as a vowel
Week of April 7th-Open syllable in 2 syllable words
Week of April 14th-R controlled (ar)
Week of April 21st-R controlled (or)
Week of April 28th-R controlled (er, ir, ur)
Week of May 5th-AI & AY
Week of May 12th-ee, ea, ey
Week of May 19th-oi & oy
Week of May 26th-a, oeo, ow
Week of June 2nd-2 sounds of oo
Week of June 9th-111 Rule
Week of June 16th-ou & ow
Week of June 23rd-oo, ou, ew, ue
Week of June 30th-au & aw
Week of July 7th- Final stable syllable C+le
Week of July 14th-Drop e
Week of July 21st-Schwa
Week of July 28th-Y TO I
Week of August 4th-tion & sion

The curriculum will now start back at the beginning.