Top Tips For Parents:

1. Practise reading with your child as much as possible. You can also practise shared reading, where they read a paragraph and then you read the next. Another effective technique is familiar reading. If your child has a favourite book, get them to read it frequently so they can develop fluency. Barrington Stokes are books for children and young people of all ages with dyslexia.
2. Do as much spelling and writing with them as possible. Deborah, recommends the 100 high frequency word list for this. This is a list of common words. If they can spell these words it can make a massive difference to their writing.
3. Encourage your child to write the shopping list, family post-it notes or engage in story writing. This can help them gather fluency and meaning in their writing. Don’t correct all of their work, they do not need to see lots of red marks across the paper. Instead, if they’ve spelt a word wrong, tick all the letters they’ve got correct and then ask them to think about what the other letter could be.

The full version of this podcast will be available in our Club in February.