Beyond Associate seminars are designed for teachers who have completed Associate or Classroom Educator Orton-Gillingham training and seek further enhancement of their diagnostic and prescriptive teaching skills. Organized as a series of three seminars, participants may attend one, two, or all of the sessions.

Beyond Associate Seminar 1:

Infusing Vocabulary and Comprehension Skills
into the OG Lesson Plan

In this session, we will discuss multisensory ways to enhance vocabulary and comprehension skills through activities such as categorizing, working with multiple meaning words, and reading connected text. Participants will gain ideas for helping students beyond the level of decoding.

For teachers of all grade levels.

Beyond Associate Seminar 2:

Morphology Overview

In this session, we will review the Anglo-Saxon, Latin, and Greek layers of the language, focusing on how to teach early skills from the Latin layer. We will explore how to introduce morphemes and how to incorporate them in an Orton-Gillingham lesson in a multisensory way. Come learn some activities to reinforce this level of word work that enhances vocabulary and comprehension skills.

For teachers of grades 3 and up.

Beyond Associate Seminar 3:

Diagnostic Decision Making

How do we help students who can’t retrieve the names of the phonogram cards? How do we remediate b/d confusions? What can we do for students who skip little words? In this session, we will problem solve common tricky situations that arise in the OG lesson and you will come away with concrete strategies to help students transfer skills outside of tutorials.

For teachers of all grade levels.