3. Language First Language Foreign Language
Visual letter Dyslexic Learner Typical learner
recognition
Poor visual b/d, p/q Punctuation marks
discrimination To/too/two Aprostophe, contractions
Three/tree
Its/it’s
Poor visual perception Use highlighters Symbols:
Listen to the punctuation dollars, pounds, measurem
marks ents: inches, centimeters
Visual searching & Vertical list Magazines and newspaper
scanning
Visual Sequential Midline crisis, column reading, Language structure SVO
perception throwing ball with left /right Adjectives-nouns
hand, tapping shoulder with Time clauses
left/right hand
Figure-ground Figure blending with Newspape ads
perception background Brochure
4. Language First Language Foreign Language
Dyslexic Learner Typical learner
Phonetic Auditory Hears house A: bat, way, air, calm,
discrimination Visualizes nouse E: set, seat
Writes nouse I: big. ice
O: box, oven, joy, poor, fool
U: up, urge
H, ph, wh, ng, sh, th, zh, ch (k)
Auditory Sequential Skills Diagraphs, Bought
dipthongs are Receive
heard/not visualized
3D magnet letters
Cutting letters
out7letter tablets
Motor memory
reposition letters
Right-Left Orientation Mirror writing. Use arrows to show direction for letters
Draw the letters with the body, in the hand, tummy
