Orton-Gillingham practice, disguised as play
Orton-Gillingham games your child will actually ask to play
ReadGenie turns structured OG practice into short daily games. Pattern hunts, letter tiles, and syllable work that build real decoding skills, not just points.
Pattern Hunt: your child listens for a target sound, then hunts for words that contain it. Sound-symbol practice, hiding inside a word search.
Games alone aren’t Orton-Gillingham
A word search is only practice if your child is decoding, not just matching shapes
Points and streaks don’t teach sound-letter patterns. Instruction does.
OG works because it’s structured, sequential, and cumulative. Random games aren’t.
The trick isn’t choosing between games and structure. It’s putting the game inside the structure.
Every game sits inside a real OG lesson
Your child isn’t playing random phonics games. Each game practices the exact skill their lesson just taught, in the same sequence a trained OG tutor would follow.
01
Learn the pattern
A short, explicit lesson introduces one sound-letter pattern at a time. No guessing, no skipping ahead.
02
Play with it
Games like Pattern Hunt give your child the repetition OG requires: listening for sounds, finding patterns, reading real words. It never feels like drill.
03
Prove it sticks
Your child reads, builds, and spells words with the pattern, then applies it in a short passage with real-time reading feedback.
A look inside some of the games
Pattern Hunt
Your child hears a target sound, then hunts the grid for words that contain it. Every find means they listened, decoded, and matched sound to spelling. That’s the core loop of OG practice.
Practices: phonemic awareness · sound-symbol correspondence · decoding
Letter Tiles
The classic tool from OG tutoring sessions, built into the app. Your child drags tiles to build, blend, and change words one sound at a time, the same multisensory word work a tutor would guide at the table.
Practices: blending · segmenting · encoding (spelling)
Syllable Slicer
Longer words stop being scary when your child can chop them into syllables. Slice words apart, spot the syllable types, and read each chunk.
Practices: syllable division · syllable types · multisyllable decoding
And it’s not just games. Games are one part of a full lesson, alongside explicit instruction, guided reading, spelling practice, and decodable passages with real-time feedback.
Free OG games are great, with a tutor driving them
Printable card games and word sorts work in tutoring sessions because a trained tutor picks the right game for the right skill at the right moment. At home, that’s the hard part.
Printable OG games
You choose which skill to practice and hope it matches where your child is
No feedback when your child reads a word wrong
Prep, printing, and cutting before every session
Motivation depends on you being the fun police
ReadGenie
Games automatically match your child’s place in the OG sequence
Real-time pronunciation feedback catches errors as they happen
Open the app, press play, and practice starts in seconds
Points, streaks, and games keep your child going without a fight
The structure underneath the fun
Every ReadGenie game runs on the same principles a trained Orton-Gillingham tutor follows.
Structured, sequential, cumulative
Skills build in order. Games only use patterns your child has already been taught.
Multisensory
Your child sees it, hears it, says it, and builds it. Every pattern gets practiced through more than one sense.
Explicit instruction first
Games reinforce what a short, direct lesson just taught. Nothing is left to guessing.
Designed with dyslexia educators
Built with input from OG tutors, literacy specialists, and families who support dyslexic readers.
Research-backed Practice
Dyslexia makes it harder for children to connect sounds, letters, and words automatically.
ReadGenie gives them short, guided practice in the skills that support stronger reading, spelling, and fluency.
ReadGenie brings these principles into focused practice your child can actually complete.
FAQ
Give your child OG practice they’ll actually do
Short daily lessons where the games do the motivating and the structure does the teaching.
Tutor or school?
ReadGenie also supports OG tutors and reading interventionists. See if it fits your students and support model.