Dyslexia friendly books for teaching reading and spelling

PHOTOCOPIABLE MATERIALS: A QUICK LOOK

Dyslexia friendly teaching tip.

The Game of Word Dominoes is popular and promotes concentration
Dominoes are easy to make out of card or by sticking cut up address labels onto ordinary dominoes or other plastic tiles
Colour or Capitals can be used to bring easier recognition - but less concentration!
The emphasis may need to be on letter order, not colour match. Capitals are easy to differentiate,
it is lower-case b, d, p and q which confuse by rotation.
Ideally, a domino set will come full circle, but this is not essential for success.
See the Digital Vault for a b, d, p dominoes game.

For a practical day of teaching ideas, tips and activities, think about booking a course. Click Dyslexia, learning, Games and Puzzles for more information. "The best INSET day I've ever had" (Heidi Campbell, Head of Alternative Learning Centre, Pindar School, Scarborough, N Yorkshire, UK)

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Alpha to Omega Pelmanism Games photocopiable Phonics ages 5+
A photocopiable set of 18 self-checking card games by Professor Bevé Hornsby covering a wide range of phonic rules, from syllable counting through CVC words, consonant blends, magic E spellings and suffixing. DETAILS

LIMERICKS, LAUGHS AND VOWEL DIGRAPHS         Age 7 - adult
Illustrated limericks, cloze passages, tracking and wordsearches for fun practice with vowel digraphs.       Photocopiable.
This unusual and popular volume gives a wealth of practice material for these troublesome spellings, in a format that even the most reluctant can enjoy.

"I love this book. It's brilliant!" Philomena Ott, international dyslexia speaker and author ("How to detect and manage Dyslexia" etc.)
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BOX DICTATIONS Dictation sentences following the structure of Alpha to Omega, with "box" word shapes to increase confidence and provide visual support for spelling. Photocopiable.
An activity which children enjoy, and which consistently increases scores in spelling tests.

"I used the box dictations for the first time this week - hugely successful!" Ann Cable, International School SEN teacher, Holland
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MAKING GAMES WORK Age 5-adult
Practical ideas and loads of templates and masters for making your own games, or using the author's. Photocopiable
This book contains loads of simple, "Why didn't I think of that?" ideas for developing your own games for students of all ages, as well as comprehensive, ready-to-photocopy games for spelling, sentence building, memory and compound words/syllabification- each with their own blank templates for using your own material.
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PHONIC WORDSEARCH photocopiable Age 7+
Wordsearches for all the common blends, digraphs etc., but with a special feature: CODE!
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RIME READ                                                                             Age 8+
A structured cumulative collection of rime-based stories and activities starting with AT, IT etc. words and ending at IGHT, in 3 parts..
Photocopiable
Written and illustrated by an experienced teacher of dyslexic children, these excellent books bring a welcome touch of humour and a useful range of activities to slightly older students with reading difficulties.
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