Mid Term Review for Orton-Gillingham
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Dyslexia - CORRECT ANSWER-a language based neurological disorder in
individuals who, despite conventional classroom experience (general education), fail to
attain language skills of reading ,writing, and spelling commensurate with their
intellectual abilities (average to above IQ)
Multisensory - CORRECT ANSWER-Essential Element of Orton
- Taps into various modalities by which we learn
- visual, auditory, kinesthetic(movement), and tactile(touch); (optimally effective
teaching method)
Phonetic - Alphabetic - CORRECT ANSWER-Essential Element of Orton
- logical connection b/w sounds and symbols
- conventional rules that when applied produce independent readers
*teaching sequential phonetic approach gives reading acquisition (students apply rules
and analyze what is written for understanding)
Synthetic - Analytic - CORRECT ANSWER-Essential Element of Orton
Synthetic:
- learning of phonemes (smallest unit of sound) and corresponding graphemes (written
symbol for phonemes)
Analytic:
- (whole word approach) breaking down a whole word to its parts with help of decoding
Structured - CORRECT ANSWER-Essential Element of Orton
- materials taught are presented in organized manner indicating relationship b/w new
and previously taught informantion
(presentation facilitates optimal learning, as tools work together to develop competent,
independent learners)
Sequential - CORRECT ANSWER-Essential Element of Orton
- moves from simple concepts of language to more complex
- student masters basic foundational skills and moves on to next step and so on until all
steps are mastered
Repetetive - CORRECT ANSWER-Essential Element of Orton
