I know most of you have heard, read or seen that speech but I have just been captured by these words somewhere in the middle of J.K's amazing speech: "...Some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something,...
by Kurt Vonnegut ...I like his last one: Give your readers as much information as possible, as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the...
It doesn't surprise me that Harry Potter readers have been found to be more tolerant. This gives me yet another excuse to get my young dyslexic clients into the Harry Potter books. There is nothing more satisfying than seeing a child who couldn't...
According to this article, research has shown how some fonts are easier to read for dyslexics. Now they're telling me - after I had my books published.
Spelling Just a few interesting words you'll see: don't: bont judge: juj stuff: suf by: duy size: sise because: becas thinks: feks .... and the list goes on. This is a real example from a very bright 7-year old who is now doing extremely well, a...
Words that don't have a picture - or at least not a clear one - are often very tricky for dyslexics to understand. They may be able to read these words, especially the short ones like 'a', 'on', 'for' - but if you asked them what these words mean,...
Did you know that reading only fifteen minutes a day exposes you to 1,000,000 words a year? Awesome! Not all new words of course, but who knows one millions words anyway? Not even Shakespeare and he has the most prolific knowledge of words ever.
After last week's post on the phonics approach to reading - which still is by far the most common way to teach anyone to read, being dyslexic or not - Â a fellow Davis facilitator with lots of knowledge posted the linked article. It's rather boring...
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