Teaching Literacy to Learners with Dyslexia: A Multi-sensory Approach

By Sylvia Phillips, Kathleen Kelly, Kathleen S. Kelly

Book Overview

Providing a structured program for teaching literacy to children and young people with dyslexia and specific literacy difficulties, this book makes explicit links between theory, research, and practice. It offers a structured, cumulative, multi-sensory teaching program for learners with dyslexia, and draws attention to some of the wider aspects of the learning styles and differences of learners with dyslexia such as memory, information processing, and automaticity.

The book discusses:

The rationale for a structured multi-sensory approachThe development of phonological, reading, writing and spelling skillsWorking with learners who have English as an Additional Language (EAL)Lesson structure and lesson planningAlphabet and dictionary skillsMemory work and study skillsTeaching the program to groupsIdeas for working with young children

Designed to help support any learner, ages 5 to 18, with dyslexia or specific learning difficulties, the authors encourage the use of the program as part of the specialist teaching of learners with dyslexia while giving strategies for everyday teaching to not only develop literacy but to put learners with dyslexia in control of their own learning. There are tried and tested strategies and activities provided, which the reader can use to support their literacy work. Particularly useful for teachers working with learners who have special educational needs and specifically those with dyslexia, this book contains everything you need to help improve and develop the literacy skills of the learners in your setting.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 085702535X
• ISBN13: 9780857025357
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 7.3"