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Orton-Gillingham Plus
Core Foundational Literacy Skills Curriculum
A Structured Literacy Solution for Every Classroom
The IMSE Orton-Gillingham Plus (OG+) Curriculum equips educators with the essential strategies, tools, and resources to effectively teach foundational literacy skills. Designed for seamless implementation across all Response to Intervention (RTI) tiers, OG+ provides explicit guidance on adjusting instructional scaffolds to support intervention, core instruction, and acceleration based on student needs. The curriculum also includes specialized resources to support English Learners, ensuring equitable access to effective literacy instruction.
Comprehensive Literacy Instruction
OG+ covers all critical components of structured literacy, including phonological awareness, phonics, word analysis, spelling, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing. Embedded ongoing assessments allow educators to monitor student progress and make data-driven instructional decisions to meet the needs of all learners.
Daily Lesson Plans & Structured Routines
The OG+ Curriculum provides daily lesson plans and structured routines for key literacy components, ensuring consistent and effective instruction. Educators have access to step-by-step guidance for phoneme blending and segmenting, word chaining, cumulative review, spelling, reading, vocabulary, and interactive read-alouds that focus on oral language and comprehension.
A Flexible & Classroom-Ready Solution
Designed to be implemented in any instructional setting, OG+ gives teachers the tools they need to bring IMSE’s Structured Literacy-based foundational literacy skills curriculum to life. Whether working with emergent and beginning readers or supporting students who continue to develop word recognition skills, OG+ provides a research-backed, classroom-ready approach to literacy instruction.
This Curriculum is For
This course is appropriate for general and special education teachers, EL teachers, and interventionists in Grades K–2 and beyond who support students still developing foundational literacy skills.
Educators Will
- Gain knowledge about the science of reading and Structured Literacy.
- Gain knowledge about students with reading difficulties, such as dyslexia.
- Understand how to leverage the linguistic assets of ELs in their first language to make connections to the language of school.
- Identify and administer various types of assessments as well as how to use assessment data to drive instruction.
- Create and implement Structured Literacy lessons that include components such as phonemic awareness, phonics, word recognition, and fluency.
- Gain knowledge about how to lead grade-appropriate word analysis for phonetic words, incorporating syllable division strategies and morphology when appropriate.
- Utilize an explicit, multimodal strategy to teach irregular words.
- Implement instructional strategies to support vocabulary development.
- Incorporate the use of decodable readers to apply decoding skills, including phonetic concepts, irregular words, and vocabulary, and develop reading comprehension skills.
Curriculum Options
Flexible Program Options to Fit Your Needs
Live Virtual Training – Interactive, Real-Time Learning
Asynchronous Training – Learn at Your Own Pace (Coming Summer 2025)
To support your learning, expert instructors are available through discussion boards and office hours, providing guidance as you build confidence in implementing OG+ in your classroom. Educators can complete the training at their own pace within a set timeframe and will receive an OG+ Certificate of Completion upon finishing the course.
With the same expert instruction as live training and direct access to instructor support, this option provides the tools and strategies needed to implement OG+ effectively.
Materials Only – Implement OG+ with Your Own Expertise
For those new to IMSE, OG+ provides a comprehensive, classroom-ready solution to build strong foundational literacy skills in students of all learning levels. Whether you choose live training, asynchronous learning, or materials only, OG+ equips you with the best tools, strategies, and resources to ensure student success.
For educators already trained in IMSE’s Orton-Gillingham approach, OG+ offers an opportunity to upgrade to the newest curriculum materials without retaking a course. With detailed daily lesson plans, student workbooks, decodable readers, and hands-on teaching materials, you’ll have everything needed to deliver high-quality structured literacy instruction with confidence.
Materials Provided
- Orton-Gillingham Plus Manual
- Orton-Gillingham Plus Teacher Guides (three books, grade level dependent)
- Orton-Gillingham Plus Fidelity Companion
- Word-Building Kit
- OG+ Phoneme/Grapheme Card Pack - Large
- Blending Board
- Customizable whiteboard
- Red Word Book
- Sensory screen
- Small Bag of Sensory Sand
- Syllable Division Teacher Guide (available for 1st - 3rd grade)
- OG+ Spelling Teacher Guide -3rd Grade+ (available for 2nd and 3rd grade instruction)
- Decodable Readers Fiction: Volumes 1 & 2, Nonfiction: Volume 1 (PDFs)
- Access to IMSE LAB (coming June 2025)
- Access to OG+ Implementation Library
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