4 key areas of intervention are analysed and sample activities described

1. Students with dyslexia learning
English??
Yes, they can!!
Lic. Silvia Rovegno

2. Agenda
• What does it feel like to be dyslexic?
• 4 areas of intervention
• Practical activities to tackle each of them

3. But before we start

5. What does it feel like to be dyslexic?

6. Main problems described in the video
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It takes them longer to copy from board
They invert numbers
They are slow readers, esp. when reading aloud
It takes them longer to do homework but with not a
good result
They have low motivation for academic activities
They can’t get spelling right even when copying
They are often victims of bullying
They are disorganised
They tend to be forgetful
They have low self-confidence

7. 4 key areas which require direct
intervention
Orthographic
awareness
Morphological
awareness
Phonological
awareness
Grammatical
awareness

8. Phonological awareness
• What is it? Phonological awareness is the
understanding of different ways that oral
language can be divided into smaller
components and manipulated.

9. • Phonemic awareness is a subset of phonological awareness in
which listeners are able to hear, identify and
manipulate phonemes, the smallest units of sound that can
differentiate meaning. Separating the spoken word "cat" into
three distinct phonemes, /k/, /æ/, and/t/, requires phonemic
awareness.
• Phonemic awareness is the understanding that words are
made up of sounds which can be assembled in different
ways to make different words.
• Phonemic Awareness is a critical Pre-Reading Skill.

10. Identifying initial and final sounds in
words

11. Manipulating sounds (deleting, adding,
substituting)

12. Recognizing and creating rhymes

13. Segmenting and blending individual
sounds in words

14. Segmenting and blending onsets and
rimes

15. Segmenting and blending syllables

16. Segmenting compound words and
sentences into words

17. Orthographic awareness
• What is it? The knowledge of the form of
letters and the spelling patterns of words.
• It refers to the visual aspect of reading.

18. Short and long vowels comparison

19. Auditory differentiation between short
and long vowel sounds

20. ‘Magic, silent or lengthening e’ rule

21. Auditory/ visual integration

22. Letter leads

23. Find the odd one out

24. Consolidation: spelling board game
‘Battleships.

25. Morphological awareness
• What is it? The ability to recognize the parts
of words and word segments that convey
meaning.
• Understanding the morphological structure of
words is crucial to developing reading fluency.
• Don't get stuck! Phonics programs are
designed for beginning readers.

26. Word families

27. Choose the odd one out

28. Sort the cards to form two word
families

29. Divide the words into two families

30. Do the following pairs of words belong
to the same family

31. Split the words into its constituent
morphemes write them on cards

32. Split the words into its constituent
morphemes

33. Grammatical awareness
• What is it? Syntactic awareness / Grammatical
Awareness suggests that the reader is able to
recognize “grammatical patterns or structures

34. Colour parsing

35. Stepping stones

36. Demonstration with movement

37. Board games

38. Card games

39. Snap