Dyslexia and phonics PHONICS: Even in England they have the same approach as here in Australia - and judging by the many teachers I have seen lately who complain that dyslexic kids still don't seem to get it - they have the same small margin of...
Just a little light-hearted note from the English spelling and grammar department. Affect vs effect.
Let's hope it doesn't get that far. I find that almost every child, especially the highly creative visual thinkers, loves books - especially once they can read and comprehend what they read. Too often I see children that have managed to read and...
Guess what? Apparently size does matter, researchers have found - at least when it comes to how fast words are recognised and processed. They are not talking about the actual size of a word, but the size in the meaning of the word. Astonishingly,...
Sam reading Harry Potter on his last day of the course. It shows the three ways of reading, the last one being for comprehension. It’s a good idea to ask specific questions to make sure the reader understands 100 % of...
Writing Writing can be a bit of a challenge for a Dyslexic brain where too many pictures are competing for attention to get onto the paper first. When they do, the message sometimes looks like a mind-map of a genius, that nobody else can make sense...
from the English Grammar for Dyslexics series: A SUBJECT is a person or thing that acts. An OBJECT is the person or thing that something happens to. Pronouns change according to how they are used in a sentence: I like to...
Not really that unbelievable, when you know the talents and visual-spacial awareness of the amazing Dyslexics. Nobody would argue, that the brain of a Dyslexic person lights up in different areas when reading and more or less bypasses the left...
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