The Gillingham Manual: Remedial Training for Students With Specific Disability in Reading, Spelling, and Penmanship

by Anna Gillingham

The Gillingham Manual( Remedial Training for Students with Specific Disability in Reading Spelling and Penmanship) <> Hardcover <> AnnaGillingham <> EducatorsPublishingService,Incorporated

Genres: Education, Teaching, Nonfiction

384 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1997

About the author

Anna Gillingham (1878-1963) was an educator and psychologist who worked with Dr. Samuel Orton to publish instructional materials that would later be known as the Orton-Gillingham approach to reading instruction. Gillingham wrote The Gillingham Manual: Remedial Training for Children with Specific Disability in Reading, Spelling and Penmanship alongside Bessie Stillman, published in 1935/6.

Gillingham and Stillman developed a “sequential, alphabetic-phonetic multisensory program” that eliminated the need for students to memorize all words in a language. This teaching manual for the “alphabetic method” of Orton-Gillingham combined multisensory techniques with teaching phonics, morphology, fluency, and syntax.

Reviews

[Katrina Dreamer]

I was required to read this for my OG practicum, and I’m glad. It is packed with useful information and I know reading it has made me a better OG teacher. It will eventually become worn because I will reference it often.

[Jessica Marie]

It's a good resource.