by Karina Richland | Sep 25, 2018 | Orton-Gillingham
PRIDE Reading Program is offering you a free Orton-Gillingham Training Course!!! Yes, you heard that correctly, it is FREE! At PRIDE Reading Program, we are huge advocates for Orton-Gillingham, and truly believe that every teacher, tutor and parent should be trained... 
by Karina Richland | May 7, 2018 | Orton-Gillingham, Reading
Children need reading practice to become fluent readers. They need to read daily for at least 20 minutes. Because the Orton-Gillingham reading program goes by skill level, it is really difficult to find outside reading books that match the program to give these kids... 
by Karina Richland | Apr 18, 2018 | Activities and Games, Multisensory, Multisensory Teaching, Orton-Gillingham, Tutoring & Remediation
If you are an Orton-Gillingham tutor then you know that sometimes it is a little bit of a struggle to keep the kids motivated. I always try hard to motivate them the best I can by making the lessons really fun and engaging but even then the kids get a bit restless.... 
by Karina Richland | Apr 12, 2018 | Multisensory, Multisensory Teaching, Orton-Gillingham, Reading, Spelling
Orton-Gillingham red words are those words that cannot be sounded out phonetically and do not follow any particular phonemic rule. They are red because the students need to stop (like a stop sign) and think about them. They are also called “unfair” words because they... 
by Karina Richland | Mar 29, 2018 | Orton-Gillingham
The English Language Learning to read in English would be so simple if all similar-sounds were spelled the same. They aren’t. English has so many difficult spelling rules! Take for example the letter ‘a’ as in the word ‘cake.’ The long ‘a’ sound is written differently...