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Brief Description: This practicum course focuses on the phonology,
orthography, and structure of the English Language.
It takes a comprehensive look at how students learn
to read and write and helps teachers recognize the
characteristics of learning disabilities. Teachers learn to use multisensory strategies which
have been proven to be most successful in teaching
students to read, write and spell, according to the
National Reading Panel report. A key component of
this training is that teachers develop lesson plans
and implement Orton-Gillingham strategies under
the guidance and supervision of master teachers.
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Audience: Pre-K-12 teachers, paraprofessionals,
reading tutors
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Evidence Base for Training:
Training is based on recommendations of the National
Reading Panel that effective reading instruction is built
on the following foundation: students must understand
the alphabetic principle, read sight words, and be
proficient in reading words by matching speech sounds
to parts of words.
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Participant Outcomes:
- Provide explicit, multisensory phonological
awareness instruction in one-one and
small/whole group settings
- Provide explicit, multisensory
phonics word analysis and spelling
instruction in one-one and
small/whole group settings
- Provide intensive one-on-one
reading intervention by
using systematic, explicit
multisensory methods
- Provide explicit multisensory instruction in Reading Foundation Standards of the State Common Core.
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Number of Sessions - Three Different Models:
- Summer Practicum Course – Three full-days
followed by twelve 3-hour morning
tutorial sessions working one-on-one with
students and twelve 3-hr afternoon workshops.
The twelve sessions would be held during a
summer-school program. Six follow-up, in-classroom
coaching sessions are recommended
for application to the classroom.
- School-year Practicum Course – Three full-day
workshops held as pull-out sessions or on
Saturdays followed by twelve one-hour classroom
coaching sessions with each teacher-participant
and 24 additional hours of workshop time.
- Intensive five-day workshop with in-classroom
observation and coaching – Five full-day
sessions during which the instructor models
intervention with a student and participants
practice developing lessons and teaching them
in mock sessions with each other. Ten to twelve
follow-up, in-classroom coaching sessions are
recommended.
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Expected Student Achievement Outcomes:
- Reduced number of students needing intensive
intervention
- Reduced number of students identified for
special education
- Increased student reading achievement
- Student mastery of Reading Foundations Standards of the State Common Core.
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Orton-Gillingham Card Deck
Mayerson Academy’s Orton-Gillingham Multisensory Reading Card Deck is an ideal sound deck for both student use and teacher training. It provides a complete deck of sounds, concepts, spelling rules, and selected common prefixes and suffixes for use with students. The sounds for each phonogram are listed on the back of the card with example words and explanation. The concept cards are an excellent tool that allows students to practice essential language concepts and spelling rules by filling in missing words. The cards also list common spellings for the same sound. All information is in an easily readable font size.
Designed for Mayerson Academy by Star Mierenfeld, a nationally certified Orton-Gillingham Instructor, the deck has a total of 185 cards (4.25” x 5.5”) and comes with a numerical listing of all cards with a notation indicating in which position they would occur in the blending drill.
Click here to download the order form.
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For more resources and to stay connected with other practitioners, all educators trained in O-G through Mayerson Academy may go to the Orton-Gillingham Connector on Blackboard: http://bb.mayersonacademy.org.
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