I am Orton Gillingham trained and will be using the multi-sensory strategies in my classroom.

Reading Strategies

Reading Comprehension Strategies

Some of the reading activities that your child will be participating in:

  • Read Alouds

  • Reading Responses

  • Reading Groups

  • Listening to Reading

  • Partner Reading

  • Independent Reading

  • Computers Games

  • Reading Games

  • Poetry

  • Word Blending Mat

  • Phonics Dance

Overview of Content Standards

Phonics

Phonemic Awareness, Beginning and Ending Sounds, Short Vowels, blends, digraphs, long vowels, and vowel pairs


Reading Skills

Main Idea and Details, Characters, Setting, and Events, Author's Purpose, Cause and Effect, drawing conclusions, and Compare and Contrast


Vocabulary

ABC Order, Classifying and Categorize words, contractions, abbreviations, context clues, compound words


Grammar

Nouns, verbs, adjectives, proper nouns, plural nouns, possessive nouns, antonyms, synonyms, homonyms, homophones, suffixes, prefixes


Writing

Complete sentences, capitalization, punctuation, How-to, Narrative, Letter Writing, Opinion, and Informative Writing