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Explore a selection of decodable stories inspired by June Lyday Orton’s A Guide to Teaching Phonics (1976, The Orton Reading Center). The stories begin with the short vowel a and the five consonants, b, s, f, m, t and continue to introduce one new concept at a time, as is typically done when using the Orton-Gillingham Approach. Therefore, readers should start with the oldest post first for the simplest of stories. We’ll be posting new stories regularly!
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June Lyday Orton worked alongside her husband in his New York clinic. When he died in 1948, she spent a year taking courses and moved to Winston-Salem, NC at the invitation of Dr. Lloyd Thompson. She opened a clinic modeled on Dr. Orton’s one in New York City. She felt comfortable working in a medical…
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The next phonogram in June Orton’s scope and sequence is the consonant j. Did you know that no English word ends in a j? If one uses this scope and sequence, the student’s word bank includes decodable words including: at, bat, fat, mat, am, bam, Sam, ham, jam, ab, jab, Tab, and Bab. Nonsense words…
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Learning to print or write the letters as they learn the letter names and sounds makes writing meaningful to the pupils from the beginning, and these motor patterns form a valuable link in the memory chain……Attention is given to forming each letter from left-to-right to establish proper directionality and spacing…” (Orton, A Guide To Teaching…
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June Orton states, “Readiness training for phonics will include the development of good speech patterns and oral vocabulary, visual differentiation of letter shapes, auditory discrimination of speech sounds, motor control of pencil and paper, awareness of laterality and left-to-right directionality, general perceptual-motor skills.” (Orton, A Guide to Teaching Phonics, Educators Publishing Service, 1976). For more…
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The only vowel sound presented so far with the selected decodable words is the short a, and it has been combined with only five single consonants: b, s, m, f, and t. The next phonogram in Orton’s sequence is the h. It is interesting to note that one can only begin a word or syllable…
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Red words are sometimes referred to as sight words, learned words, and memory words. Some red words will eventually be decodable by students as they continue with this scope and sequence. Others will always be referred to as red words. Students learn red words by writing them out, saying each letter (not letter sound), and then saying the word. They must…
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