Literacy: An Orton-Gillingham Mini Workshop

We all have them in our classrooms . . . students who have difficulty learning to read, spell, and read accurately. While some of them may just need extra help for a year or two, many of them are dealing with some degree of dyslexia. The Orton-Gillingham approach is a multisensory strategy for teaching phonics and spelling that has been successful for more than 80 years. In this workshop, participants will learn the basics of this approach and how it can be used as an individual, small group, or classroom approach to remediate reading difficulties.

Lois McKenney is the special education coordinator at St. Paul, Lake Mills. She graduated from DMLC and holds a master’s degree in special education from UW-Whitewater. She has achieved a high level of success using the Orton-Gillingham approach with struggling readers.