Orton Manhattan Gillingham

09/10/2024

I've moved! Orton Manhattan Gillingham is now in Port Washington, New York! I have some availability to see local students here in person. I continue to offer virtual tutoring services as always.

02/16/2024

12/16/2023

11/06/2023

What do you do when you learn that the central premises of your instructional system are ineffective for the majority of children and that you have caused tremendous injury to scores of students over decades? Do you apologize? Revise? Nope. Reading Recovery filed a lawsuit on the grounds that revised educational mandates based on the science of reading are cutting into their profits.

The state is a key market for the teacher-training organization, which has used now-banned, context-based reading methods in its program.

06/04/2023

Worth a repost⏬

This may ruffle some feathers - but please read 🔽

Teaching how to read may lead a student to discover that they enjoy reading, but experiencing a constant struggle to decipher the words on the page will NEVER make anyone love reading, no matter how many enthusiastic conversations we have with the child about the “love of reading.”

Of course, as avid readers, we want our children to love reading as it opens up new worlds for them to explore through the pages of a book. But this is an outcome and not an approach.

Without teaching students to be proficient readers, we are leaving students behind feeling inadequate and lost.

Children need to be able to crack the code to begin to experience reading for pleasure.

We don't find pleasure or enjoyment in something that is a constant struggle, nor do we all enjoy the same things.

Collectively our target goal for ALL students should be that they become literate, and then they can perhaps discover a love of reading (or not), but they can read, and that is power.

04/25/2023

A colleague recently shared this resource with me — love this! https://morphememagic.com/morphemes-for-little-ones/. As we bring more and more teachers on board with understanding the profound importance of explicitly teaching the phonetic code, it’s awesome to have strategies to and resources for weaving the teaching of morphemes (units of meaning) into that work.

We now know that morphological awareness is growing and developing beginning in kindergarten and continues throughout the school years. (Kirby et al., 2012; Mahony, Singson, & Mann, 200; Nagy, Berninger & Abbott, 2006). Morphemes for Little Ones K-3 provides systematic, structured literacy lessons t...

02/20/2023

Looking forward to the opening of New York City’s first Children’s Dyslexia Center!

02/07/2023

Just learning about this new upcoming event here in NYC! Please share with families that may be interested!

https://lincolncenter.org/venue/david-geffen-hall/world-dyslexia-assembly-nyc-510?fbclid=IwAR0JWk55Sxc2mHrzyXZFzKeIem3wg1_qe5D2-_wHpe6jZK3oFv99Ac_T3P4

Made By Dyslexia’s World Dyslexia Assembly NYC will celebrate the limitless power of Dyslexic Thinking. New York…

01/25/2023

This is a great picture source to share with parents so they know what to look out for!

12/12/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=pP5GJyggt0g&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2OashXUYcyZEkQGoMNUCj9WF7_LWB9YWspUjqMkL4zdMJBa8qgUVOGRdA Listen and share! Succinct and powerful....

12/10/2022

What happens when we don’t teach accurate reading…… or we could say, the guided reading model…. 🤣🤣

12/08/2022

This!!

Naomi Peña doesn’t think parents should have to sue so their kids can learn to read.