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DYSLEXIA: Strategies and Best Practices Word Recognition By: Rachel Smith

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DYSLEXIA:Strategies and Best Practices

Word Recognition

By: Rachel Smith

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What’s In a Font?

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Strategies

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

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High Frequency BINGO

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

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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.

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Visual Connections

Visual Flash Card Visual Word Journal

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Charades

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Visual Connectionsyoutube videos

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

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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.