Orton-Gillingham with Mrs. G.

Fun, easy game called Guess the Word (very similar to “Guess Who”).

I printed off 2 fluency pages and placed them in plastic pockets. I used 2 file folders and clothes pins to make a wall. Each person pulls a word and then the guessing begins. Questions can only be “yes” or “no” questions.

Questions examples:
Does your word have 1 syllable?
Does your word have an l?
Is your word something you wear?
Does your word have a /p/ (sound)?
Does your word have more than one vowel?

Today we found Schwa sounds in spices, and divided the syllables! My tutoring student loved this activity and she had fun trying to guess the smells (multisensory). Can you find the schwa sounds in the spices? (I saw this idea from !!)

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Let me tell you about one of my favorite resources!

Sound walls…What is a sound wall?

Sound walls use pictures of articulatory (the formation of speech sounds) gestures to create an awareness of the sounds in our language. Sound walls are organized by the features of the tongue, teeth, lips, voicing, etc. and are taught in an explicit manner.

“Mouth positions are tangible and can be felt, viewed in a mirror, and analyzed by learners” (Ehri, 2014)

Sound walls help students connect speech (oral language) to print. This process allows students to navigate a sound wall independently. They can hear the sound, feel it on their mouth and locate the spelling. A sound wall is created from the student’s point of view rather than the teacher’s.

“Sight Words” can also be placed next to the sounds as opposed to a traditional word wall in which the words were placed next to a letter of the alphabet. Word Walls can not only be confusing to struggling readers, but are not as explicit. For example, on a word wall the word “the” would be placed under the letter “t”. However, “t” in “the” does not say /t/ (as in toy), it says /th/ as in “the, this, that, etc.

If you have never taken a sound wall class, I would highly recommend Tools 4 Reading Dr. Dahlgren and her team are amazing!

For More Information check out these sites!

https://www.tools4reading.com

https://www.readingrockets.org/article/transitioning-word-walls-sound-walls

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Snow Day Vocabulary ❄️ ⛄️

For all the Wordle fans out there! This is my daughter’s new favorite game. Great for lesson concept words, red words and even vocabulary words! Instructions and pages for 4, 5 & 6 letter words on .ee! Link in comments below.

Suffix -ed can say 3 different sounds! /d/ as in dribbled, /t/ as in rocked and /id/ as in experimented!