Reading and Spelling

Multisensory Structured Language Programs: Summary and Reflections A brief summary of "MSSL" programs (including Orton-Gillingham) and thoughts from a free spirit on "repetition, repetition and drill, drill, drill."
The Importance of Automaticity and Fluency For Efficient Reading by Pamela E. Hook and Sandra D. Jones. Reprinted with permission from the International Dyslexia Association, from the Spring 2002 _Perspectives_
Getting Up To Speed: how-to article on using speed drills to improve reading fluency from Perspectives (newsletter from the International Dyslexia Association, formerly the Orton Dyslexia Society)
Accommodations and Modifications for Students with Handwriting Problems and/or Dysgraphia by Susan Jones, M.Ed.

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Tandem Reading: tools for getting more out of reading with your child
Drill Bits: A comprehensive collection of lists of syllables and words of different syllable types and phonetic patterns (based on Orton-Gillingham organization of syllable types - open, closed, vowel-consonant-e, r-controlled, consonant-l-e and vowel digraphs, as well as other spelling/sound patterns)
Drillable Syllables: sets of sturdy flashcards for getting syllable patterns fast and fluent.