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Tracking an Orton-Gillingham style sequence

Orton-Gillingham informed teaching is structured, sequential and diagnostic, and every practitioner's scope and sequence is a little different. That makes off-the-shelf trackers a poor fit and a plain, ordered lesson list a very good one.

In short

Track OG-style instruction by entering your own scope and sequence as an ordered list of concepts, placing each student at their current concept, and rating each session Needs support, Developing or Secure. Review follows the ratings; the log records instruction by date. The method is the same as for any scripted program, with your sequence instead of a published one.

Your sequence is the curriculum

List the concepts in the order you teach them: consonants, short vowels, digraphs, blends, and on through syllable types and morphology. Group them into units if it helps. That list is the spine of the record; everything else hangs off it.

Placement, not grade

Each student sits at a concept. Two students in the same grade can be twenty concepts apart, and the record should say so. When a student starts mid-sequence, mark earlier concepts as taught so the roadmap reads correctly.

Rating by concept

Because OG lessons revisit several concepts, rate the target concept of the session, and add a review item for any other concept that wobbled. The rating is diagnostic information; it decides whether the concept comes back and how soon.

The diagnostic loop

  • Needs support: the concept returns next session.
  • Developing: returns after a few sessions.
  • Secure: move on; the sequence spirals back through reading and spelling anyway.
  • Repeated Needs support: check the concept underneath and change the mode.

In Literacy Trail

Add a curriculum from a typed list or a CSV, or copy and edit the built-in sequence. Place each student, teach, tap a rating; review and reports follow. Resource links can sit beside each lesson for your own materials.

Questions people ask

No. It holds your sequence and your record. Materials stay with you, with an optional link per lesson.
Yes. On the School plan a curriculum can be shared across an organization; on any plan a CSV export can be imported by another account.
No. Students never log in. The adult who teaches uses the app; nothing about a student is sent to analytics.

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Your sequence, tracked properly

Type or import the concepts in order and place your first student.

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