What is the best approach to teach reading to a child with dyslexia?

Answer 1

The best approach is to use a multi-sensory program that is structured to give the learner a solid base in phonemic awareness that they can then build upon as they learn how to read. These students need patterns and rules that they can rely on. Teaching the seven different syllable patterns and how to manipulate them is a reliable strategy. Typically a student with dyslexia, there is also some anxiety related to reading. I find it important to help them relax and feel comfortable, I do this by making sure reading is not just about decoding the words, we enjoy the story together and even have some laughs. It is important when having a student with dyslexia read aloud that you do not constantly interrupt and correct their words. Give them strategies and allow them time to use them. To reduce anxiety, before a student reads to me I say, "I will only help you if you ask." Then it is with a lot of patience and support that they read and I listen.

Answer 2

The best approach to teach reading to any child who has been diagnosed with dyslexia is a multi-sensory approach. Orton-Gillingham is the best approach to teach reading since it is designed to help struggling readers by explicitly teaching the connections between letters and sounds.

Orton-Gillingham is reliable since it is a personalized, sequential, cumulative approach. This approach respects the child's pace to learning and avoids any gaps in the development of language skills by linking each new lesson with the previous one. Each lesson starts with a review of the concepts seen in the last lesson and continues introducing a new concept at a time in order to allow the student to study each concept in depth before moving on to the next.

Students learn by hearing the sounds that make up each word, repeating them, associating them with images and writing them down. This is done by the use of flash cards. These flashcards are a great tool to practice drills in order to memorize each kind of phoneme (letters that make a specific sound) and be able to recognize it in a word when reading a sentence.