Today I had the awesome opportunity to see one of my students make substantial progress. Before I begin my Orton-Gillingham lesson, I do a phoneme awareness drill of rhymes and onsets and phoneme identification. Then I have my student sound-out words. Thankfully, I found out that by placing tactile letters one at a time in front of my student while he touched and sounded-out each letter of a word, he learned such words as cog, cad, cod, gag and dog. My student had an extremely difficult time sounding out-words, but now he can do them easily with the help of tactile cues.
There are wonderful resources to help train individuals with learning disabilities. Check out www.espbooks.com.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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