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Resources and Information for Teachers
High Frequency Words
High frequency words are the most common words in our language; they are essential words as they are needed to make up even the simplest of sentences. High frequency word lists are composed of words that can be decoded (phonics) and a few that that have been termed as ‘sight words’ because they contain more complex spellings which are not phonically decodable. For that reason, it is important that we help students learn the ‘tricky’ or complex parts of the words. But these are not 'Sight words' and should not be sent home to be learned visually. The following is a more comprehensive explanation and guide for teaching
Phonics:
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Sound Pack for class and individual teaching with spelling and syllable rules written on the reverse of each card. An essential part of a SOR phonics lesson.
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Free Glossary Of Terms For Phonics And Morphology For Parents And Teachers
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Bossy or Magic e Game - a Go Fish game to reinforce Bossy/Magic e
Beat Your Score Series: The following exercises are great for providing repetition and reinforcement but in a fun way where the student has to beat their score each time they play.
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Climb the Blend Boxes 2 - sp, sn, sm,st and w blends
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Climb to the top of the End Blends Boxes 3 assortment of final consonant blends
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Climb to the top of the Digraph Boxes 4 - ch, sh, th
ADDITIONAL NEEDS
Including children with learning disorders can present major challenges to main stream schools. Reseach information is providing updated information about different types of learning difficulties and the remediation required. Of course this information is welcomed and helpful, however a class teacher has up to 30 individual children’s needs to meet and wants to enable every child to meet their potential and has only 24 hours in a day!
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NEW REVISED DYSLEXIA MANUAL : instant access to all the tools you need from identification to intervention & classroom support. packed with resources & practical ideas. Over 130 pages only $35 introductory price
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Spotting the symptoms of Specific Learning Difficulties in Class - provide the signs and symptoms of special needs such as ADD/ADHD, Autism, Asperger's and Dyslexia. They will help teachers to informally diagnose needs in class without waiting up to a year for a formal diagnosis.
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Repeated Reading Exercises to Improve Reading Fluency: Research over the past two decades has identified Repeated Reading as the key strategy for improving students' fluency skills. Read more including the strategy
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Precision Reading Sheets for Phonics Research has shown that use of precision sheets can dramatically increase the children’s reading ability. Precision Reading provides reinforcement and repetition and is essential for children and adults who are Dyslexic.
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What is an Individual Learning Plan (ILP)? An ILP or Individual Learning Plan is written by a school, hopefully in consultation with the child and parent. It is a tool to help plan for meeting the special educational needs of a child and to aid effective teaching and learning. ILPs are only used where a child needs something extra or different from others in the class. This PDF is intended to help teachers and parents to produce effective ILPs
Dyslexic students often find it difficult to extract information from handouts for a variety of reasons. Find out how to prepare a handout that will help many students and can be put into place to make accommodations that will not single out students with LD.
I have extended the Handouts info above to include advice for employers and to include any written materials not just handouts. In addition, this explains how to prepare written information to be read using text to speech software and how to make webdesign easier to access.
Teachers can use this simple checklist to ascertain whether their students may have difficulties following information or instructions due to auditory or phonological weaknesses
Dyslexia Friendly font free to download. OpenDyslexic is a new open-sourced font created to increase readability for readers with dyslexia. http://opendyslexic.org/