My students love doing phonemic awareness activities. For kids with dyslexia, auditory processing or speech deficits – this is so important in helping them read. In this lesson the student looks at a word, and I ask her to break the word apart and think about the phonemes in isolation. More information on the PRIDE Reading Program at https://www.pridereadingprogram.com
I know it sounds horrible… Fluency Drills are actually a lot more fun than you think if you can make a game out of it. The kids like trying to read the words as fast as they can BUT… I never force them to read fast. For those kids who are anxious, just reading the words as fast as they want to is just fine:) It’s really about accuracy and not speed. More information on the PRIDE Reading Program at https://www.pridereadingprogram.com
Sky Writing in Orton-Gillingham is one of those multi-sensory activities that I make the kids do in every new lesson. In Sky Writing, the kids stand up and spell the sounds they are learning in the air using 2 fingers. It also gives the kiddos a stretching break:) More information on the PRIDE Reading Program at https://www.pridereadingprogram.com
I love using the Blending Drill in Orton-Gillingham with my students and actually think it is one of the most important steps in the Orton-Gillingham lesson. My students have to practice the sounds in isolation and create nonsense words, so they are forced to use decoding and not memorization skills. Blending nonsense words really helps my students to build rapid decoding skills and also provide a solid foundation for teaching closed syllables. It’s a of fun:) More information on the PRIDE Reading Program at https://www.pridereadingprogram.com
This one is pretty fun. The student closes her eyes, I say a word and she has to listen for the sound she is learning. In this case she is learning short e. She raises her hand if she hears a short e in the word. More information on the PRIDE Reading Program at https://www.pridereadingprogram.com