This is the set of Orton Gillingham phonics cards I’ve used for the last five years, modified after my time in first, kinder and second grades, along with intervention work. It includes the 26 single letters and six digraphs we teach in kinder, and the digraphs and trigraphs taught in 1st and 2nd. This is all the phonics your child needs to read, offered in an easy to practice format.
The cards are numbered and taught in the same order each time, as research shows that this helps with memorization. This is an innovation of Samuel Orton and Gillingham. Also, the cards are sequenced in teaching order, with consonants, then vowels, then blends, then silent e, r-controlled, advanced digraphs, vowel teams, dipthongs, and vowel-consonant blends and advanced consonant vowel blends.
It all sounds complicated, but it’s not; teaching “igh” as one sound is the way we really read, although many quick-study (fast learning) readers have never broken phonics down to this level as they didn’t find it necessary.
These cards have been the backbone of my instructional routines for years. Doing this drill takes about five minutes, and is repeated every day until the student has mastered the sounds. This may take as little as 2-30 repetitions or as many as 150.
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