Dyslexia Untied: Great Tips about Learning

This month's great tips from Olive Hickmott

1. NEVER learn spellings from of a list. Copy them onto postits - just one word per postit. If you learn a whole list from a single page, visual children with store the whole list of words together - may be good for the spelling test but useless for subsequent written work.
   
2. Dyslexics normally turn letters around. Has anyone else noticed that 11 upper case letters, turn around and you won't notice the difference - this is nearly half of the alphabet. If you reverse upper case letters they are either the same or don't make another letters. If you reverse lower case, b becomes d, p becomes q etc. None of them turn around and stay the same. This explains to a great extent why some are dyslexic in lower case and not upper case.
   
3. Multilingual children can have a nightmare in literacy - they not only have to learn multiple languages but different phonics too. If you visualise you simply see the word in different languages and you can use different colours to distinguish them.