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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.