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Tech: Mayerson Academy Orton-Gillingham Card Deck

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Laura Lurns Last updated September 13, 2016 · 1 min read

Educators, parents and students now have access to an app for Apple and Android that uses virtual flashcards to reinforce grapheme-phoneme instruction. The Mayerson Academy Orton-Gillingham Card Deck helps readers overcome dyslexia and improve their reading and comprehension skills with sets of audio and video-based exercises that emphasize the relationship between written symbols and their sounds.

Eight categories of lessons reinforce learning by stating a grapheme name, its phonetic sound, and demonstrate its use using audio and visual reinforcement techniques. Students gain confidence and comfortably absorb the material through repeated exposure to 80 of the most commonly found grapheme-phoneme associations found in the English language. Visit the Google Play or Apple stores to download the app.

Key takeaways

The Mayerson Academy Orton-Gillingham Card Deck is an application that uses virtual flashcards to teach the relationships between speech sounds (phonemes) and the letters that represent these sounds (graphemes).
Eighty common phoneme-grapheme relationships are presented with virtual flashcards allowing the student to hear each grapheme name, its phonetic sound and an example keyword using the phoneme-grapheme.
The virtual flashcards are easy to navigate and useful for students of all ages to strengthen their reading and writing skills.

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