Go PhonicsBy: Athena Cocallas

BackgroundSylvia Davison

44 year teaching veteran Learned the Slingerland Method Few supporting materials in

teaching dyslexic and struggling readers Own games, stories, songs, and

workbooks

Holly Davison Daughter of Sylvia

Together they designed Go Phonics that published in 2001 Using the Orton-Gillingham based

approach

Gophonics.com

Very informational

No videos

Different sections Home, overview, tools, dyslexia, downloads,

background, testimonials, order, contact us

Most informational were the overview, dyslexia, background, and download pages

Overview

Phonics curriculum with K-2 language arts

Orton-Gillingham based approach

Hands-on and ideal for dyslexic students

Basic Kit:Teachers guide, basic skills assessments, 5

workbooks, 7 volumes of decodable stories, key word chart set, prefix suffix chart, word lists book, 108 letter cards, songs for learning to read

Can buy additional materials

Dyslexia http://www.gophonics.com/dyslexia.htm

10 strategies for why it is an effective program for dyslexic readers

5 reasons for why children may have difficulties reading and spelling

What dyslexia meansSigns of itResearch results from the National Institutes of Health

from 1994 about dyslexia Common myths about dyslexia

Downloads

Lets you download a PDF file that contains sample lessons, the scope and sequence, teaching strategies, samples of the stories, tools, descriptions of the materials, and price lists.

4 decodable reader stories

Couple extra pages that are interesting and a couple are a part of the first PDF file

Who uses it?Teacher: Reading specialists, speech/language therapists,

tutors, classroom teachers, parents, home educatorsBasically anyone who wants to

Students: K-2nd grade or RtI K-4th grade and olderCan be used one-on-one/tutoring, in the classroom, in special

education, RtI, remediation, differentiated instruction, home school, after school programs Basically for anyone

No restrictions on what types of students or teachers can use this program

Sessions

79 lessons total

No real explanation of how long you should meet or how often If it takes more than one day for the student to learn

a lesson, the student should be practicing his/her flash cards every day

Lesson StructureAuditory Review

Spelling and Handwriting

Visual Review

Teaching the Digraph

Games

Worksheets

Teaching non-decodable words from the story

Oral reading and teaching the stories Grammar, punctuation, predictions, inferences, sequencing,

creative writing, and activities

Scope and Sequence

http://www.gophonics.com/downloads/Go_Phonics-Lesson_Samples.pdf

Scope and SequencePage 6, 12, 13

Foundation of Core StandardsPage 18

Extra

ResearchNational Reading Panel

Findings say that Go Phonics uses the Orton-Gillingham approach because it has “explicit instruction in phonemic awareness and systematic phonics”

Orton-Gillingham Instruction is explicit,

systematic, sequential, and simultaneous multisensory

Simultaneous multisensory Hits visual and auditory

learners Names the letter as she

forms it on the desk