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Dyslexia Friendly Schools
How to do it.
Sarah Asome Outstanding Primary Teacher 2015 (VIC Ed Excellence Awards)
AMADA (Associate Member of the ADA) Certified Structured Literacy Teacher - Certificate Centre for
Effective Reading Instruction (CERI) USA
Introduction
BWPS is school situated in a High Socio-Economic area and achieves very good results compare to the state average.
On closer inspection we saw we were not catering to all of our students
% of Students 1 year or more below expected level
Direction for Change
Clearly students are not reaching potential.
Staff knowledge and skills were proving insufficient to be able to deal with literacy
issues.
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Prep AUSVELS Reading SEM 2 - 2015
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Explicit Instruction Model I do
We do
You do
WHY…..Multisensory Structured Langauge
Orton- Gillingham (OG), MSL, Structured Literacy
Simultaneously Multisensory (not just writing in sand!) 2 or more senses at once – V- A- K
Structured, direct and explicit
Sequential
Diagnostic and cumulative
Cognitive and emotionally sound
Not a program!
Gentle Cindy Rule VIDEO
EARLY Identification One to one assessment with all students prior to
starting school
Phonemic and phonological awareness screening for all students in Foundation
New students to the school screened
Careful RTI monitoring of students receiving support
In depth profiling of identified students
EARLY Intervention Support groups begin in foundation
Flexible and ongoing support
Working with tutors and outside agencies.
Not ‘bolt on’ support for Sarah to ‘fix’
LEARNING SUPPORT TEACHERS
So what changed……. Rewrote the school curriculum documents, phonics,
spelling, writing, morphology and currently mathematics.
A huge amount of PD for staff from ADA/LDA. Jodi Clements and Lorraine Hammond.
All school decisions are based on research.
MSL (Structured Literacy) pedagogy through explicit instruction
Awareness
Parent support group – empowering parents and students
BYOD IPAD for identified students.
We think differently- Planning and assessments
Working with kinders
Culture of the school
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Accommodations Extra time
Reduced load
Rest breaks
Scaffolding and structure
Preteaching and reinforcement e.g. Maths Mastery
Resources – e.g. decodable texts
Use of technology
Assistive technology Voice to text and text to voice
Mind mapping
Spell checkers
Word processors
Apps to reinforce spelling
Audio books
Useful Websites and APPS Lower primary
Nessy – Hairy letter, Hairy Phonics, Hairy Words, Chimp Foo, Dyslexia Quest
Decodable books- Fitzroy, Little Learners Love Literacy
Word shark
A Sound Way
Oz phonics
Reading Doctor
Wet, Dry Try- Handwriting
Explain Everything
Clicker phonics, Clicker sentences
Kidspiration
Upper Primary /Secondary Prizmo/Snaptype
Inspiration
Writeonline
I Read Write
Explain everything
Easy Spelling Aid
AcceleRead AcceleWrite
Clarospeak
DragonSpeak
QUESTIONS ????????
For more information contact TTR4L, ADA, LDA or SPELD
Also……..IDA (USA) and BDA (UK)
Dyslexia Support Facebook pages
Contacts:
THANK YOU
