Description
Do you need multisensory activities for your Orton Gillingham young readers? This TMC (The Multisensory Classroom) Phonics Focus Pack includes a variety of activities that tie in phonological awareness, reading and spelling with isolated word lists and connected texts, handwriting, and comprehension worksheets. The resource includes a detailed lesson plan to help you put it all together and ensure that you are teaching these concepts from the ground up, using multisensory methods.
All products in The Multisensory Classroom are designed to follow Orton Gillingham-based instruction and are derived from my Orton Gillingham Academy-accredited training and my doctoral dissertation research implementing Orton Gillingham in the classroom.
This resource includes the following:
- Lesson Plan– This detailed Orton Gillingham lesson plan begins with an introduction to “w,” “h,” “d,” and “e.” It provides a thorough framework explaining how and when to use each product resource in this lesson and how to integrate multisensory instruction. The lesson plan also includes the covered Common Core standards for grades K5-3rd.
- Worksheets
- Letter Formation
- Roll It, Read It– a quick and easy game to practice writing each phonogram (w, h, d, e) in print and cursive. Includes upper- and lower-case letters.
- Letter Formation– large letter tracing and handwriting lines for students to practice following dotted letters and then writing the letters on their own
- Phonological Awareness
- I Spy- identifying pictures that contain the same beginning sound
- Sentence Snapshot- drawing pictures that represent the alliterated sentence
- Letter-Sound Match- writing letters underneath each picture that contains the same beginning sound
- Posters- Two sets of posters (8 ½ x 11) can be used for classroom display to introduce and practice the phonograms. All posters come in color and black and white.
- Phonogram Posters– one poster for each phonogram; includes the phonogram, its keyword, and its sound
- Finger Tapping Poster- specific guidelines for identifying the letters “w,” “h,” “d,” and “e” as vowels or consonants and how to tap out CVC words containing these letters
- Activities
- Exit Tickets- These tickets provide a quick and easy follow-up assessment to help determine student understanding of the phonograms by matching their uppercase and lowercase letters and identifying beginning sounds. They are perfect to use in the classroom after the lesson or at the end of a tutoring session.
- Blending and Segmenting Mat (Smash It! Move It!)- This mat can be used to add in kinesthetic-tactile reinforcement as they practice blending sounds to form words and segmenting sounds to spell words.
- Word Cards- There are 120 CVC word cards containing “w,” “h,” “d,” “e.” Word cards include real and nonsense words so specific words that need additional review can be used in follow-up lessons.
Words Lists and Sentences Pages
- One page of words and sentences for each phonogram (w, h, d, e) that is flexible for students who may be stronger readers and can decode some words with phonograms not yet covered in the scope and sequence
- Decodable Passage and Comprehension Worksheet
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- Aligned Decodable Passage- contains only phonograms/skills that have already been taught in The Multisensory Classroom Scope and Sequence (along with a few sight words)
- Flexible Decodable Passages- flexible for students who may be stronger readers and can decode some words with phonograms not yet covered in the scope and sequence
- Comprehension Worksheets– one worksheet for each passage that contains short-answer questions to assess understanding of the passage, a phonics review of words containing the focused phonogram, and a sentence illustration practice for students to visualize the text.
TMC Phonics Focus Series: What is it?
Each product in The Multisensory Classroom (TMC) Phonics Focus Pack series focuses on one phonogram/skill and includes multisensory phonics activities, worksheets, lesson plan, word lists, sentences, and decodable passages. All products in each TMC Phonics Focus Pack coordinate with The Multisensory Classroom Scope and Sequence or can stand alone with or without another curriculum.
The Multisensory Classroom: What are we about?
We create Orton Gillingham-based resources so classroom teachers, small-group interventionists, tutors, and homeschooling teachers can have peace of mind knowing they are using research-based strategies proven to work for beginning and struggling readers. The Orton Gillingham method is a language-based, multisensory, structured, and flexible program geared to meet the specific needs of students with reading difficulties.
We would greatly appreciate your feedback on this product. If you have any questions or issues, please email us at themultisensoryclassroom@gmail.com.
