Yoshimoto Orton-Gillingham Basic Training

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This course has been expanded and adapted by Ron Yoshimoto and is offered in either a 4 day or a 5 day format. It is a structured literacy training program which empowers educators to understand and implement evidence-based reading and writing instruction.

FULL COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Description

This explicit, systematic and multisensory instruction, that is the Yoshimoto Orton-Gillingham (O-G) approach, prepares educators to successfully provide reading instruction to all students and targeted instruction to struggling readers including those who have dyslexia.


Upon completing this course participants will have acquired the skills necessary to fully implement this data driven solution for teaching reading and the early foundations of writing to all students. This course provides participants with the skills they need to master the fundamentals of reading instruction —phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension and develop the early foundations for writing. Educators implementing the Yoshimoto Orton-Gillingham approach with fidelity are observing consistent and significant growth in spoken and written language for all their students. This course is suitable for all including teachers, speech pathologists, teachers assistants, parents, etc.

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Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

  1. Gain an understanding of the essential components necessary for reading and spelling success.
  2. Identify reading and spelling challenges for students and plan a course of action.
  3. Understand the learning needs of students with dyslexia and other reading challenges.
  4. Be taught a scope and sequence for teaching the phonetic elements of reading and spelling.
  5. Learn how to develop and implement a structured and multisensory lesson plan at an individual, small group and whole class/ whole school level.
  6. Learn how to incorporate the five key elements for reading instruction in the lesson - phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension.
  7. Be provided with resources and strategies to integrate this learning across the curriculum.
  8. Acquire knowledge of structured multisensory procedures for teaching reading and spelling skills - sounds, syllabification, blending, learned words, fingerspelling, dictation, word fluency, oral reading fluency and reading comprehension.
  9. Learn correction procedures and a diagnostic/prescriptive approach to teaching reading and spelling.

What is included?

This course includes all materials needed for implementation. This includes multiple sound decks, procedure cards, lesson plans for every level of instruction, scope and sequence for multiple grade levels, tools for implementing at every skill level and much more. Participants are provided with extensive additional materials including a USB drive to download worksheets to support each level of the instruction including: phonological awareness, graphemes, syllabification, spelling rules and generalisations.


We offer a 4 or a 5 day format. We are guided by our host schools regarding what suits them best, and are finding more and more that the 4 day format is preferred by schools as it reduces the costs for them when arranging replacement teachers. Exactly the same content is covered in both a 4 and a 5 day format. The 4 days are done over longer hours Eg. 8am to 4:30pm, while the 5 day training is completed in shorter days.


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