1. Students with dyslexia learning English??Yes, they can!! Lic. Silvia Rovegno

2. Agenda What does it feel like to be dyslexic? 4 areas of intervention Practical activities to tackle each of them 3. But before we start 4. What does it feel like to be dyslexic? 5. Main problems described in the video It takes them longer to copy from board They invert numbers They are slow readers, esp. when reading aloud It takes them longer to do homework but with not a good result They have low motivation for academic activities They cant get spelling right even when copying They are often victims of bullying They are disorganised They tend to be forgetful They have low self-confidence 6. 4 key areas which require direct intervention Orthographic awarenessMorphological awarenessPhonological awarenessGrammatical awareness 7. Phonological awareness What is it? Phonological awareness is the understanding of different ways that oral language can be divided into smaller components and manipulated. 8. Phonemic awareness is a subset of phonological awareness in which listeners are able to hear, identify and manipulate phonemes, the smallest units of sound that can differentiate meaning. Separating the spoken word "cat" into three distinct phonemes, /k/, //, and/t/, requires phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness is the understanding that words are made up of sounds which can be assembled in different ways to make different words. Phonemic Awareness is a critical Pre-Reading Skill. 9. Identifying initial and final sounds in words 10. Manipulating sounds (deleting, adding, substituting) 11. Recognizing and creating rhymes 12. Segmenting and blending individual sounds in words 13. Segmenting and blending onsets and rimes 14. Segmenting and blending syllables 15. Segmenting compound words and sentences into words 16. Orthographic awareness What is it? The knowledge of the form of letters and the spelling patterns of words. It refers to the visual aspect of reading. 17. Short and long vowels comparison 18. Auditory differentiation between short and long vowel sounds 19. Magic, silent or lengthening e rule 20. Auditory/ visual integration 21. Letter leads 22. Find the odd one out 23. Consolidation: spelling board game Battleships. 24. Morphological awareness What is it? The ability to recognize the parts of words and word segments that convey meaning. Understanding the morphological structure of words is crucial to developing reading fluency. Don't get stuck! Phonics programs are designed for beginning readers. 25. Word families 26. Choose the odd one out 27. Sort the cards to form two word families 28. Divide the words into two families 29. Do the following pairs of words belong to the same family 30. Split the words into its constituent morphemes write them on cards 31. Split the words into its constituent morphemes 32. Grammatical awareness What is it? Syntactic awareness / Grammatical Awareness suggests that the reader is able to recognize grammatical patterns or structures 33. Colour parsing 34. Stepping stones 35. Demonstration with movement 36. Board games 37. Card games 38. Snap