As the literacy support I/C in my school, I want to be at my best so that I can support the students with dyslexia as best as I can. This week we had full-day classes, which allowed me to determine these learners’ needs. So, to conclude this week, I feel that I need to:
  • come up with a checklist of the symptoms of dyslexia because it affects everyone differently
  • come up with a list of words frequently misspelt by my students (like family, friend, nervous) so that I can teach them how to spell them through techniques like chunking, mnemonics and small-word-within-big-word trick
  • come up with passages that include sight words so that I can see if my students know how to read them in the wilderness