ORTON-GILLINGHAM S.T.A.R.S CERTIFICATION
Equipping parents and schools to use evidence-based, multi sensory tools to help children overcome reading difficulties
Overview of Course Content for Level Two Certification
This course is for schools and districts that want their instructors to be trained in evidence-based, multi-sensory techniques for teaching students--especially those who are struggling to read. It is an intensive, systematic, phonetic, structured evidenced-based approach to decoding and word recognition. Instructors will learn how to use multi-sensory visual, interactive, tactile, auditory learning strategies to help students overcome reading difficulties. For example, teachers will learn how to engage students in exciting, effective ways by helping them sound, say, and sing syllabic and phonemic sounds.
Ultimately, this is a speech-to-print course. Students will build foundations for excellence in reading and writing by learning how to spell phonemic and syllabic sounds and write them down. In other words, students will learn how to spell well to read well. The course content includes the following:
Levels 1-3: Phonetic Foundations
In this section, instructors will learn how to teach students multi-letter sounds such as blends and digraphs. These sound clusters are important because they appear at the beginning and at the end of words. Knowing how to say and spell consonant and vowel clusters provides students with an invaluable key for decoding words.
Level 5: Advanced multi-letter spellings of long vowel sounds
Level 5 introduces students to the long vowel sounds and advanced multi-letter sounds.
English has 15 vowel sounds and 28 different ways to spell those sounds. This presents great difficulty for both teachers and students. This course will help instructors to show their students how to say the vowel sounds and spell all of the various phonograms that represent those sounds so that students can speak, read, and write with greater accuracy.
Level 6: Multi-sensory tools for teaching grammatical foundations and sentence analysis
This section will help instructors to learn the most effective and exciting ways to teach grammar for reading comprehension.
Level 7: Multi-sensory tools for teaching vocabulary acquisition through morphological analysis
This section will help instructors to learn the most effective and exciting ways to teach students how to build a rich vocabulary by analyzing morphological components such as roots, prefixes, and suffixes.
This course consists of over 150 self-teaching videos, which help students to master the structures of sounds, words, and sentences. Interactive digital quizzes help students to target their weaknesses while affirming their strengths and encouraging their efforts.
ScholarSkills will provide webinars and live coaching sessions throughout the training process.
Upon completion of this course, educators will receive certification from ScholarSkills as Level Two Orton-Gillingham STAR Instructors. STAR is our acronym for Systematic Training in Analytical Reading. This Level Two certification means that instructors have been intensively trained in the use of multi-sensory tools to teach and remediate students in foundational reading skills comprising the structures of sounds, words, and sentences. This equips instructors to teach and remediate students from Kindergarten through Grade 8.
Equipping parents and schools to use evidence-based, multi sensory tools to help children overcome reading difficulties
Overview of Course Content for Level Two Certification
This course is for schools and districts that want their instructors to be trained in evidence-based, multi-sensory techniques for teaching students--especially those who are struggling to read. It is an intensive, systematic, phonetic, structured evidenced-based approach to decoding and word recognition. Instructors will learn how to use multi-sensory visual, interactive, tactile, auditory learning strategies to help students overcome reading difficulties. For example, teachers will learn how to engage students in exciting, effective ways by helping them sound, say, and sing syllabic and phonemic sounds.
Ultimately, this is a speech-to-print course. Students will build foundations for excellence in reading and writing by learning how to spell phonemic and syllabic sounds and write them down. In other words, students will learn how to spell well to read well. The course content includes the following:
Levels 1-3: Phonetic Foundations
- An introduction to the Science of Reading made simple: What every reading teacher needs to know about how the brain learns to read.
- An introduction to the Science of Spelling made simple: what every reading teacher needs to know about how systematic spelling instruction enhances reading instruction.
- Instructors will learn:
- How to help students master the alphabetic principle
- How to help students build phonemic awareness through auditory training
- How to help students master phonetic elements through simple syllables
- How to help students develop phonemic analysis through syllabic segmentation
- How to help students build words by using the essential syllabic patterns such as CVC and VCE words
In this section, instructors will learn how to teach students multi-letter sounds such as blends and digraphs. These sound clusters are important because they appear at the beginning and at the end of words. Knowing how to say and spell consonant and vowel clusters provides students with an invaluable key for decoding words.
Level 5: Advanced multi-letter spellings of long vowel sounds
Level 5 introduces students to the long vowel sounds and advanced multi-letter sounds.
English has 15 vowel sounds and 28 different ways to spell those sounds. This presents great difficulty for both teachers and students. This course will help instructors to show their students how to say the vowel sounds and spell all of the various phonograms that represent those sounds so that students can speak, read, and write with greater accuracy.
Level 6: Multi-sensory tools for teaching grammatical foundations and sentence analysis
This section will help instructors to learn the most effective and exciting ways to teach grammar for reading comprehension.
Level 7: Multi-sensory tools for teaching vocabulary acquisition through morphological analysis
This section will help instructors to learn the most effective and exciting ways to teach students how to build a rich vocabulary by analyzing morphological components such as roots, prefixes, and suffixes.
This course consists of over 150 self-teaching videos, which help students to master the structures of sounds, words, and sentences. Interactive digital quizzes help students to target their weaknesses while affirming their strengths and encouraging their efforts.
ScholarSkills will provide webinars and live coaching sessions throughout the training process.
Upon completion of this course, educators will receive certification from ScholarSkills as Level Two Orton-Gillingham STAR Instructors. STAR is our acronym for Systematic Training in Analytical Reading. This Level Two certification means that instructors have been intensively trained in the use of multi-sensory tools to teach and remediate students in foundational reading skills comprising the structures of sounds, words, and sentences. This equips instructors to teach and remediate students from Kindergarten through Grade 8.
