In recent years, the once-esoteric term “evidence-based reading instruction” has spread beyond research institutions to become part of the vernacular of classroom teachers tasked with teaching young ...

Kindergarten teachers at East Oakview took part in a “learning lab” to observe how their colleagues teach new phonics lessons ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sixth Charleston County school, Carolina Park Elementary in Mount Pleasant, will use the Orton-Gillingham literacy approach to ...

Summer vacation doesn’t mean work stops for teachers. At an RE-1 Valley School Board meeting on Monday, Dawn Cole, kindergarten/first grade resource teacher at Ayres Elementary, Patricia Kramer, fifth ...

Reading Horizons is an online tutoring service that uses the Orton-Gillingham approach with kids struggling to read or who have dyslexia. Credit: Vicky leta / mashable While many parents were ...

Orton-Gillingham concepts are now popular with both parents and teachers. It's not just an approach to learning but a reading program that follows a simple path for every student. Because it is ...

In 2019, a grassroots campaign led by parents succeeded in passing a wave of dyslexia legislation. Many states mandated hallmarks of the Orton-Gillingham method, specifically calling for “multisensory ...

Orton Gillingham is an approach that was developed in the 1930s by Samuel Orton, a neuropsychiatrist, and Anna Gillingham, an educator and psychologist, for people with dyslexia. Orton Gillingham (OG) ...

I’ve been a teacher since 1992. When I went to college, I was taught that children would learn to read naturally if we simply surrounded them with books. My training emphasized "whole language," ...

A sixth Charleston County school, Carolina Park Elementary in Mount Pleasant, will use the Orton-Gillingham literacy approach to train teachers through the Lowcountry Literacy Project. Lowcountry ...