Dyslexia Writing, Spelling & Math worksheets - Activity book for kids: Activities to improve writing and reading skills of dyslexic children

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Letter names can be hazardous to your spelling…The message is clear: Discourage and eliminate the use of letter names and encourage the teaching of phoneme-grapheme correspondences.” Son is an average reader but absolutely appalling speller. Has been more and more problematic (now Yr 6) as independent and creative writing etc steps up. You can’t write anything if you can’t spell” Alphabet Code charts (programme-linked) showing spelling alternatives in real words: for teacher training, classroom walls and pupils’ phonics files:

A dyslexia-friendly classroom also includes dyslexia display ideas that are tailor-made for pupils with dyslexia, along with catered activities and games. Phonic knowledge should continue to underpin spelling after key stage 1; teachers should still draw pupils’ attention to GPCs that do and do not fit in with what has been taught so far. Increasingly, however, pupils also need to understand the role of morphology and etymology.” Many children with dyslexia find it difficult to learn how letters and sounds correspond to each other and may not be able to recall the right letters to be able to spell the sounds in words. The complexity of the English language means that learners also have to remember irregular spelling patterns and sight words such as the, said, was. At its core, dyslexia is a language-based learning disability. Dyslexics have trouble isolating and recognizing individual sounds in language. It connects spelling letters to tapping sounds. Instead of using plastic counters like I explained above, your child will tap the dots on the worksheet to break apart the words.Once you feel like your child can segment or break apart a word into individual sounds, you can teach your child how to connect the sounds to letters. As well as our dyslexia-friendly dictionary, we've got lots of resources designed to support the learning of children with dyslexia. This informative 'See Dyslexia Differently' video is a wonderful way to get children to see dyslexia from a new perspective. It highlights the strengths of people with dyslexia, rather than focusing on things they find challenging. Because English spelling is statistical ”children need to be taught with real words…Teaching nonsense words (a feature of some programs) is, at best, a waste of time.” A dyslexia-friendly classroom is one which develops a variety of approaches for inclusive practice for students with dyslexia. It includes resources and activities to make learning tailored for students with dyslexia to encourage them to follow their strengths while supporting them with any struggles they may have. www.firstschoolyears.co.uk – free worksheets, flashcards and resources for primary literacy, maths and other subjects.

Dyslexia in the classroom is common, we have some brilliant resources to help you give the best support and education to students with dyslexia. We would recommend starting with our Dyslexia Intervention Guide and Supporting Children with Dyslexia to Read Adult Guidance. Our dyslexia resources are created with dyslexia-friendly fonts (or the option for it) and are bright and colourful. We aim to What are the benefits of these dyslexia resources?

Don’tteach spelling rules. English spellings don’t obey rules but are context-sensitive and probabilistic. ”That is, it matters what a particular spelling sits next to in a particular word”(D. McGuinness. Allographs).Teach the GPCs in the context of real words. Comparing the alternative spellings in the context of real words increases the brain’s ability to analyse the spelling probabilities, aiding memory. Second, when your child reads it, they will likely spot if they made a spelling mistake. My daughter and dyslexic students ususally catch their spelling mistakes when they reread what they wrote aloud. In the early grades at least, I’m a big fan of combining phonics and spelling instruction. The idea is to teach these skills to the point of automaticity.” The Programme The Synesthetic Learning Programme The Programme in Practice Assessments, Training and Support Programmes

Spelling and decoding are taughtalongside each other in all high-quality phonics programmes, from the very beginning of instruction, to make clear the reversibility of the code and to ensure that pupils’ encoding and decoding abilities remain as close as possible in synchrony, avoiding the development of a serious spelling lag. Here are some of Twinkl's top tips to help you teach students with Dyslexia! Signs of dyslexia in children It was the construction of the first major dictionaries by Dr Johnson (1755) and later Noah Webster that set the ‘correct’ spelling of individual words all but in stone. Before the arrival of Johnson’s dictionary, people spelt phonetically ‘by ear’. They would often spell the same word in different ways in the same piece of writing and this was considered perfectly correct. You can see such variable spelling in Shakespeare’s original scripts for example. If Johnson had formally allocated a single, unique spelling to each of the English phonemes, instead of fixing the spelling of individual words, thereby creating a transparent English alphabet code, we would not have the difficulties with English reading and spelling that we do today. Reading and spelling are reversible processes and should be taught in tandem so that this reversibility is obvious…but they draw on different memory skills. Decoding, or reading, involves recognition memory,memory with a prompt. The letters remain visible while they are being decoded. Encoding, or spelling, involves recall memory, memory without prompts or clues, which is considerably more difficult”(McGuinness. ERI p37) These spelling worksheets build on each other. So the CVCe words will not include any digraphs or consonant blends.

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DO teach pupils about the schwa.”The schwa sound is the most common vowel sound in the English language, accounting for 20% of all vowel sounds (Yule, 1996), and it often is the cause of spelling mistakes” https://keystoliteracy.com/blog/teaching-the-schwa-sound-in-unaccented-syllables/ If you notice any of these signs and symptoms of dyslexia in children reflected in your child or student, it's important to flag this with SLTs and a GP. What is directional dyslexia? www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise – factsheets, worksheets, quizzes and games to help improve English and maths skills.