Games and learning activities for 6 years w / dyslexia and dysgraphia? I'm looking for some learning activities can I do to complete schooling for one year 6. old with dyslexia and dysgraphia. I would like to find worksheets and activities free online, but I'm not sure where to look. Thank you!
I taught special education for 30 + years. Thank you for seeking help while your child is so young. It is much more available today to help these children.
Check out these links:
International Dyslexia Association ... this group has been around for decades and is the place to go for research on teaching to
Charles Schwab sponsors an exceptional site for parents and children. If you go to a convention IDA Schwab often a booth giving away freebies
LD Online provides articles, but the part that I prefer are the chat rooms, you can ask teachers, parents and students' questions
National Institute of Neurological Disorders includes a section on dysgraphia
Reading Rockets is a site focused on reading research and improving
There are so many books out there, I'm not sure where to start. I have over 10 libraries of materials, but I'll try to limit myself to three tried and true favorites:
Reading Reflex (Read American site, go to link parents)
Games and activities for readers and spelling Kit (Cambium Learning)
Written and without tears (writing skills development)
A specific activity of reading ... you can find it in many reading programs ... involves the manipulation of phonemes. It is with sounds in a variety of ways. This is often the underlying problem of dyslexia. At the beginning of the use of short words and make a change at a time, fat, bat, mat, cat using colored tiles, bowling, pieces of paper, magnetic letters or other holds interest your child dictate that sounds duplicating his tiles. Receptive: for example you say / t /, it poses a tile. You say / t / t / he poses two tiles of the same color or the letter.
You say / at / he poses two squares, different colors. You say / TAT / he asks three tiles. The first and third tiles are the same color or the letter, because he hears the same sound.
Expressive: using the same materials, you build word, its evolution at a time, he reads the words aloud
Active: He built the words and read them
Using tiles or other manipulatives eliminates the problem while writing id focusing on reading. Later, he can write the sounds and words that you dictate.
Specific activities for dysgraphia: Ask your child to rub lotion into his hands before beginning, not finger heating by different activities such as finger one thumb at a time, finger extension, and strike a blow fist (repeat) shake hands to get the blood flowing, etc. A favorite of children is "clay naked. Make the dough home with one of the many recipes available (like revenue cornstarch). Give your child a small ball of dough, roll into a ball him, then use your thumb to make a hole in the center. Add a few drops of food coloring. Pinch the hole closed. Then I squeeze the ball in one hand, then move to the other. Repeat pressing and switching until the color is well blended. Good for the sequence, the strengthening of the muscles of the hand, and crossing the midline. Then he can use the dough to form letters, numbers, etc. If his name continues to work on letter recognition you can get a set of punches which are shaped like letters of the alphabet .
So make him do the letters and numbers with a variety of textures and sizes. For example: chalk or a paint brush and water on the sidewalk, him lying on his belly to copy letters on a white chalk on a low pile carpeting (it sucks up) of write standing, or on an inclined board.
In genera.
Posted on March 11, 2010.