Teach Reading with Orton-Gillingham: 72 Classroom-Ready Lessons to Help Struggling Readers and Students with Dyslexia Learn to Love Reading (Books for Teachers)

This book is the best-organized manual for teaching phonics that I have found in all of my decades of professional teaching and tutoring students in reading. The lessons present the correct order for teaching the different concepts of decoding. When you're done with these lessons, then it's time to really dig in to multi-syllable decoding, which requires different materials; but for decoding foundation, this is excellent. Just the Table of Contents, which shows the order in which to teach the phonics, is worth the price of the book!

I wish I had bought this book sooner. I am a former teacher. I love the Science of Reading but was not taught this way. This book has help me teach my daughter how to read quickly. The book explains the why behind why words are spelled certain ways. My daughter is reading way above grade level.

I am thrilled that I made this purchase and now have such a wonderful resource to add to my collection. I took my time reading this book cover to cover and have learned so much more about what I thought I already knew. This OG approach to reading instruction is highly effective because of the explicit teaching paired with a multisensory approach. The book is nicely organized with lessons ready to go. I love that each lesson is very clear, easy to follow, and that it provides you (as the instructor) with background information on the WHY behind different rules of our language. It's important for our students to know the WHY behind rules, too, so this part is very valuable to me. Other helpful pages found within this resource include assessments and letters to parents/families. The pages for parents are helpful for them to understand ways to promote literacy in their homes. I do a lot of intervention work with struggling readers, mostly K-2. I am excited to begin using this resource with them and see the growth they make. I know it will be very successful. This resource will help all of your readers who struggle with phonics, reading fluency, and spelling. The authors of this book also have supplemental materials that align well with this book. So happy with this purchase!

Some background: My oldest (almost 8 yrs old) is likely mildly dyslexic (no need for diagnosis at this point, so it's just a guess based on observation) so we put off formal reading lessons until we felt she was ready (waiting until after she turned 7) and then turned to this book as a guide for a systematic approach. She knew her letter sounds before beginning this program.We finished the first (and longest) unit in approx 5 months with some breaks scattered in there. Overall this is a great book and could stand alone as a reading program or be used as a go-to resource in the classroom setting. I used some ideas from additional research to try and spice things up or keep the lessons interesting. For the most part, things are clearly laid out, it's very repetitive which is how OG lessons should be. There is built in review. It's really been just what we needed for our oldest. She is now reading diagraphs, cvc words, and plural words. And my younger daughter has benefited from it as well - at not even 6 yrs old she's reading on the same level as a first grader.The only down side is that I've found two errors within the last lessons and review pages - the use of a sight word that was not taught and a typo where quotations were only partially used (not closed), nor were they ever explicitly taught within the lessons (thankfully I've addressed this with my kiddo so she knows quotes mean that someone is speaking).We will continue with this book after a bit of a break and I expect it should get us through several grades of reading lessons. Overall, I'd buy this again because it's a straight forward, open and go lesson plan for an OG program without the outrageous cost of becoming certified to teach OG.Update: we are a little over a year into our use of this book and I recently discovered that free digital resources are available from the authors. I've just emailed them and they promptly replied with a link to those resources. My two children are now solidly reading multi-syllable words thanks to this book. We intend to use this book as our sole source for a reading program in our homeschool.

This book has been helpful for me when planning lessons for my students where I need to focus more in depth! The activities in the book are simple and to the point, it’s outlined very nicely for kids to understand what is being asked of them to do! I recommend to any teacher or parent!

I have used this curriculum with my 1 on 1 reading students and it is wonderful. The units are organized so that I can start students right where they need to be to personalize learning. Students learn how to say the sounds correctly (speech), how to segment sounds, how to spell and read. They learn phonics rules. There is review/followup. There are companion resources that go with this book, so there are a ton of resources for students. I also add in my own resources at times (such as alphabet flashcards). Easy to use and impactful!

This book is just wonderful if you are working with small groups of students who need reading intervention!

I’m new to this method and new to teaching in the US, having taught elementary in the UK. I know that a substantial number of students have dyslexia and related language disorders, so wanted to enhance my knowledge. This book is book informative and practical. It gives background information on dyslexia, as well as a step-by-step phonics teaching programme. I feel that you could also use these activities with general learners, too.