2024-2025 School Year

Orton-Gillingham Reading Tutoring GVL

Enrollment Info:

At enrollment, parents should indicate their desire to enroll their student in OG Reading Tutoring.  The parent should provide the student’s class schedule and any preferences as to time of day, etc for tutoring.  The LD staff will add the student’s name and tutoring preferences to the waitlist and the family will be contacted if/when a tutoring spot becomes available.

Course Description

Students enrolled in Orton-Gillingham Tutoring will meet between 8:00am – 3:30pm in individual or leveled groups of no more than 3 students after assessments are completed.

Each tutoring session will last 45 minutes weekly and the teacher will be using the Orton-Gillingham approach. The tutoring will be done in individual or small group sessions determined by students’ reading levels, with no more than 3 students per small group. New students will need to attend an assessment time before the tutoring begins to determine their reading level and determine which leveled small group tutoring time they will be assigned.  Once a tutoring spot becomes available for your student, you will be connected to a Reading Tutor who can set up a time to assess your child.

During the Orton-Gillingham approach, a student is taught reading, spelling, handwriting, and expressive writing as a whole body. The Orton-Gillingham approach is a multi-sensory approach and each phonetic unit and sequence in spoken and/or graphic form is learned through hearing, speaking, seeing, and writing; these skills are learned and practiced simultaneously in coordination with one another. The teacher teaches the student small doses of the language in 45 minutes tutoring sessions and connects their new learning to their prior knowledge of what they have already learned. The tutor will monitor skill development for each student. The lessons are built upon what is observed in the previous lesson and what is seen to be necessary to move the child forward in the next lesson. This tutoring will not serve as the student’s daily reading program. It will be a supplement to the instruction already occurring at home.

Learn more about the Orton-Gillingham approach

To be successful in this class:

Students must be actively working on a reading curriculum and practicing reading daily with their teaching parent. Tutors recommend using All about Reading and All about Spelling curriculum. Orton Gillingham Reading Tutoring should be viewed as an intervention to supplement what parents are doing at home. This tutoring time will be centered on Orton-Gillingham mini lessons focusing on certain reading skills/errors that are needed based on each small group reading needs and there will not be time in a 45 minutes weekly session to teach all reading skills comprehensively.

Grades: 6th Grade, 1st Grade, 7th Grade, 2nd Grade, 8th Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade

Fees: $250 per semester/small group
or
$420 per semester for an individual session

Plus $20 individual student assessment fee for new students only.

Plus $140 enrollment fee per student.

Plus $10 materials fee per student.

Prerequisites:

This tutoring program is for students in 1st-8th grade. An assessment will be done before tutoring begins to determine a student’s level. Payment is required prior to signing up for an assessment time slot. Families will enroll and pay for one semester of tutoring at a time. Parents may choose to continue or discontinue tutoring after each semester.

Sections Offered: GVL Orton-Gillingham Reading Tutor

Required Materials

Materials:

  • Paper
  • Pencil

Further Recommendations:

Parents must agree to:

  • Attend the required parent training at “Meet the Teacher” before the course begins.
  • Purchase the required materials needed for the class as listed on the Supply List.
  • Teach reading instruction on a daily basis with the student.
  • Review content that is covered from weekly updates from tutor.

The OG tutor will:

  • Teach new concepts and provide guided practice in class once a week.
  • Provide support and suggestions for parents to use for reading and spelling at home.

Students NOT Enrolled in All Day Co-op Classes: Families from the community who do not plan to have their student enrolled in a regular, full day UHC Elementary co-op class, may enroll their student at UHC for Orton-Gillingham Reading Tutoring only. A $140 annual enrollment fee will be assessed to your account, in addition to the tuition for the tutoring, as is UHC’s policy.

GVL Orton-Gillingham Reading Tutor

Meet Jeannine Jordan

Education:​

  • Education:​ Orton-Gillingham Training, 2019.
  • B.A. English, Secondary Ed., 1983.

Teaching Experience:​

    • ​​OG Reading Tutor at Concord Academy, Concord, NC, Summer 2020.
    • ​​OG Reading Tutor freelance “JJ Tutoring,” Greenville, SC, 2021-2022. ​​
    • Freshman English at Concord Academy, Concord, NC, 2019-2020.
    • Middle School English Language Arts and US / World History at ​​​​​Carolina Christian School, Locust, NC, 2015-2019. ​​
    • “Literature Plus” English Language Arts courses grades 6-12 ​​​​​​(for homeschooled students), Matthews, NC, 2008-2015.
    • ​​Homeschooled daughters grades 3-5, 2004-2008.
    • Led “Bookworm Club” 2004-2008 and “Story of the World Club,” 2005-2008.

Certification: ​​Certified to teach in North Carolina, ​​Orton-Gillingham trained, uses PRIDE Reading Program.

UHC Course: ​​Orton-Gillingham Reading Tutor, beginning 2022.