We have several children with literacy difficulties in our school. The children I am thinking of for this activity can learn chunks of script for plays/ concerts etc. They are having difficulties learning their tables however and this is affecting their ability to do their maths.

Today I have typed up the tables as words and made up a booklet for them. I have put the numbers in a column next to the words too.

eg

one two is two 1x2=2
two twos are four 2x2=4
three twos are six 3x2=6

I know these children have problems reading, but my theory is if they can read and learn scripts, perhaps they can read and learn the tables this way too? Perhaps it is seeing the tables as numbers that makes it hard?

Make any sense?

Yes Jaydee67 it makes great sense I have done it at my school too I made sure that I typed all the first numbers in one colour and then the second ones a different colour and the answer a third colour and kept this pattern going for the whole times table.

Each week I give the child 4 or 5 cards to practice every day at school and at home. At the end of the week we change them and if the child is ready move on to the next set.

I learnt this at a dyslexia course a year or so back but no resources like this exist so, like you made my own.

Best of luck with this.

Another thing to try is:- give the child a bookmark with the times tables he/she is learning at that particular time i.e 3x, and every time they get their reading book out to read(which hopefully would be daily) they would get a glimpse of the bookmark and with out knowing it they would learning the times tables in question. i soon found the children starting to ask me for the next times table bookmark which i've made a complete set of now and are ready to be downloaded ready for when the children are needing the next one. hope this idea helps, it's very similar to what you've done.
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The book marks are a great idea. I'd done something similar for the girl I support who has memory problems and a distinct dislike of anything maths related. She loves reading though so I wrote out the times tables in words and she's managed to retain quite a bit of the 2s, 5s and 10s now.