Helping Students Find Academic Success with Our Orton-Gillingham Approach
At Graybill Literacy & Learning Studio, we engage children in an environment where they are ready to learn. Our approach includes applying a unique blend leveraging the proven approaches from Orton-Gillingham, structured literacy, and a multi-sensory techniques.
Every child’s learning style and energy is unique which is why the Graybill Literacy & Learning Studio was designed to have all of the resources we need to create a dynamic, engaging, and effective learning environment that meets their needs.
Graybill Literacy & Learning Studio uses the The Orton-Gillingham Approach
This is a direct, explicit, multi-sensory, structured, sequential, diagnostic, and prescriptive way to teach literacy. After years of experience and success with this approach in the classroom setting, we know it can be a powerful tool of exceptional breadth, depth, and flexibility to help your student.
What it looks like at Graybill Literacy & Learning Studio
We apply the Orton-Gillingham approach throughout all of our activities and lessons with students. This includes incorporating multi-sensory instruction which is a way of teaching that engages more than one sense at a time. Using sight, hearing, movement, and touch gives kids more than one way to connect with what they are learning. Some of our favorite techniques include writing in sand, story sticks, air writing, and engaging in a physical activity during the learning process.
Why Graybill Literacy & Learning Studio Uses the Orton-Gillingham Approach
We implement the Orton-Gillingham approach because learning is not a one-size-fits-all concept. Multi-sensory-based teaching allows us to tap into each student’s natural resources. Hearing, vision, touch, and smell are all used to make connections in the brain that support the understanding and retention of skills. We teach this in a systematic, evidence-based progression that has been proven successful for learners of all ages and backgrounds. Orton-Gillingham is an engaging and effective approach to aiding in the growth of your student’s literacy journey.
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The Orton-Gillingham Approach is always focused on the learning needs of the individual student. At Graybill Literacy & Learning Studio, we design lessons to work with students at their current level by pacing instruction and introducing new materials to address their individual strengths and weaknesses.
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Orton-Gillingham is a highly structured approach that breaks down reading and spelling into smaller skills involving letters and sounds, and then builds on these skills over time. It was the first approach to utilize multi-sensory teaching strategies for reading instruction, which is considered highly effective for teaching students with dyslexia. Educators use sight, hearing, touch, and movement to help students connect and comprehend the concepts.
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Orton-Gillingham was the first teaching approach designed to help struggling readers by explicitly teaching the connections between letters and sounds. In the 1930’s, neurologist Dr. Samuel T. Orton and educator/psychologist Anna Gillingham developed the Orton-Gillingham approach to reading instruction for students with 'word-blindness,' later known as dyslexia. Their approach combined multi-sensory teaching strategies paired with systematic, sequential lessons focused on phonics.
Today, Orton-Gillingham is used in many reading programs as an effective way to teach literacy. We are proud to apply the approach to help our students at the Graybill Literacy & Learning Studio.
