POSTED ON MAY 12, 2016 BY TRACEYHAYLES@OPTUSNET.COM.AU Dyslexia was mentioned at the end of 2014 for us. I met with the learning support teacher the next day and even though term 4 was about to end she kindly downloaded a number of the resources she had created over the years to help children learn to read. I wasn’t going to wait to til the start of 2015 to help my child.
I spent the next week pouring over websites and talking to people. All the research pointed me towards Multi-Sensory Learning and Teaching.
In it’s very basic form multi-sensory teaching means helping a child to learn through more than one sense. Most teaching techniques are done using either sight or hearing (visual or auditory).
With the attitude of starting somewhere was better than not starting at all I decided that over the holidays we would work on Mr 7’s sight words using this approach.
Mr 7 loves to build and is competitive by nature so I harnessed these two attributes and made them into a game to help him develop his sight word knowledge
Build a Sight Word Wall
You will need:
Old blocks
A permanent marker
List of sight words
Preparation
Write the sight words on the blocks
Game
Player 1 selects a block and reads the word. If they read the word correctly they keep the block and use it to start constructing a wall
Player 2 selects a block and reads the word. If they read the word correctly they keep the block and use it to start constructing a wall
Continue taking turns until all the blocks are used
Tip
Start with words your child has already embedded in their memory to give them a sense of success and then replace 1/3 of them with new words.
Make sure you look at each new word, talk about it, trace over it and read it before playing
This game was a big hit with Mr 7.
Hi, I'm Tracey!
My mission is simple : to make the science of reading easy. Can you imagine what it felt like as a qualified experienced teacher when I realized my child wasn’t learning to read like other kids. He loved books, we read books together everyday. Seriously, somedays it felt like we read dozens of books, but he just wasn’t learning to read like other kids. Rather than waiting and seeing like the education system wanted me to, I decided to take it into my own hands. I learnt, researched and trained in the science of reading. Now, Imake the science of reading easy
for every parent who want’s to support their child.
