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DYSLEXIA:Strategies and Best Practices

Word Recognition

By: Rachel Smith

What’s In a Font?

Strategies

• Repetition- words everywhere, all the time• Word Wall• Word Familes• High frequency games• High Frequency Flash Cards• Spell Reading • Sweep, Sweep, Spell

High Frequency BINGO

More Strategies• Multimodal lessons• Using sentences• Strengthen orthographic awareness• Chunking (prefixes, suffixes, and roots too)• Predictability• Context

Example Strategy

• High Frequency Flash Cards– To help students with Dyslexia learn high

frequency words and become more fluent readers.

– Students can make their own or there are many other options creating or purchasing materials to practice high frequency words.

Visual Connections

Visual Flash Card Visual Word Journal

Charades

Visual Connectionsyoutube videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=JkL8ch7BpUU

Sources

• Bailet, L. (n.d.). Dyslexia . KidsHealth - the Web's most visited site about children's health. Retrieved June 14, 2013, from http://kidshealth.org/kid/health_problems/learning_problem/dyslexia.html

• Leong, C. K. (2003). Editor’s Afterwords: On Editing The Annual Annals Of Dyslexia. Annals of Dyslexia, 53(1), 355-356.