One of the questions that has interested me considerably over time is how one moves away from the intense practice on individual issues in reading into incorporating them into general practice of use of the language.
It may of course just be me, but I know from experience that I can spend hours with some pupils working in sequences and get to the stage where their work really is developing. But then, when they find themselves faced with a sequencing issue in the middle of something else, much of that progress disappears.
The same sort of thing happens in all sorts of areas. They may have studied homophones – and, of course, they need more and more practice in this area. But then as we start work in other areas so the memory of the work on homophones disappears.
The answer, at least in part, seems to involve moving away from the dyslexia materials that the pupils are following and taking them into other, previously unseen, materials.
In this way the pupils can get a moment’s release from the regular work that they have to go through to overcome their disability.
Furthermore, for those pupils who are unable to undertake this sort of work because of a lack of specialist teachers and assistant teachers, it can be very helpful to have a range of resources that the pupil can work through on his/her own, to reinforce knowledge that has been gained.
For all these reasons, I rather like the Dyslexia Resource Pack which contains activities centring around syllables, compound words, root words, anagrams, synonyms, antonyms, homophones, etc. All the materials are photocopiable for use within the school.
The materials are literacy specific, and as such can be used with pupils and students in key stages 2, 3 and 4 who have problems with any of the areas covered.
You can order the Dyslexia Resource Pack in any of these ways (quoting order number 16026)
- Online at http://bit.ly/a4rMdD
- By phone on 0117 940 6409
- By fax on 0117 940 6408
- By email (quoting a school order number) to sales@classroom-resources.co.uk
* By post to: Classroom Resources, PO Box 1489, Bristol, BS99 3QJ
