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maizie · member Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 191 Location: NE England

Sue,

I would very earnestly reccommend that you get yourself very clued up about Synthetic Phonics and help your gdaughter with her reading by helping her to sound out the words that she has problems with and making sure that she never guesses words. Help her with her spelling by helping her to identify the sounds in a word and then to 'spell' each sound. It actually won't hurt her to have a go at spelling the 'nonsense words' from Toe by Toe. She needs to learn how to listen for and spell the 'sounds' in words, so this would be good practice. But NOT trying to learn them as letter strings by a 'look, say, cover, write & check' type method.

Toe by Toe is all very well, but it does take ages to get through and, as far as I can see, there is no decodeable text that works alongside it. She should really only be practising her reading with text that uses the letter/sound correspondences that she knows.

It sounds to me as if she is getting a real ragbag of strategies thrown at her and all that will happen is that she will end up confused. There is absolutely no need for her to learn those Reception HFWs as sight words; it won't help her word attack skills in any way and they are, frankly, not the most important words she'll find in a a text - just the most frequent. The school are deperate for her to learn them because they want to be able to tick it off on their objectives. If you're not careful, she will have 'learn the 45 Reception HFWs' as a target on her IEP when she goes to secondary school. I see many, many IEPs like this in Y7, usually accompanying children who subsequently do learn to read a rather less restricted range of words.

I'm sure I gave you this link on the TES forum, but here it is again.

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This is a very helpful and informative site, authored by someone who home tutored her own dyslexic child and who is now a very succesful reading tutor. It does not always agree with the accepted view of 'dyslexia', but if you want to know what is most effective, this is the site to go to.

suewhit · New kid Joined: 29 Oct 2005 Posts: 7 Location: wyorks

thanks Maizie have looked at the site seems like a breath of fresh air. will look at the synthetic phonics. i am looking at policies and procedures on IEPs and SEN not sure if she is getting the right inclusive practice
really grateful for everyones help
sue

catbells

thought i had a book on dyslexia. cant find it. Mad

ploughing my way through this unit on literacy for nvq3.

need to talk about any SEN and how they affect development of literacy skills.

can anyone point me in the direction of some websites please?

Thanks

Catbells x

Shirazee · Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:47 pm Post subject:

Here are a few for you :-

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