Course Description

Tutoring for students enrolled in Orton-Gillingham Tutoring will occur in individual tutoring sessions after assessments are completed.

Each tutoring session will last for 45 minutes and students will be tutored once per week using the Orton-Gillingham approach.

New students will need to attend an assessment time before the tutoring begins to determine their reading level.  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.

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