Description: Get comprehensive information on identifying, understanding, and diagnosing students with dyslexia and dysgraphia along with hands-on strategies and techniques for intervention. The author begins by dispelling 16 myths about dyslexia and setting a goal of helping the reader understand the struggles experienced by students with dyslexia and dysgraphia. Then she discusses: the processing styles inherent in dyslexia and dysgraphia how to identify at-risk students components relevant to diagnosing dyslexia when to compensate and when to remediate the importance of phonological awareness skills and how to develop them at early and advanced levels approaches to develop sound/symbol correspondence for reading and spelling why students with dyslexia need instruction in phonics how to develop written language skills using remedial and bypass strategies how to improve written language expresssion through metacognitive awareness and explicit practice of specific processing skills Copy the activity pages or print them from the FREE CD. Activities are included to build these skills: phonological awareness beginning with easy rhyming and alliteration tasks and ending with advanced tasks such as creating malapropisms and reduplication games sound/symbol correspondence following a mnemonic teaching system called Memory Foundations for Reading (MFR) decoding and encoding through structured, systematic, and multisensory instruction and practice spelling based on Levine's six acquired insights and including activities designed to enhance learning at each insight manuscript and cursive writing prewriting skills such as comprehension, rehearsal, and organization written expression subskills such as as drafting, proofreading, and editing

Series: the Source

Author: RICHARDS, Regina

Publisher: Linguisystems

Year Published: 1999

Grade: A6-18

Format: SOFTCOVER/REPRODUCIBLE

Components: 308pp