What can I do at home?
While working on improving the weaknesses, such as reading, writing and spelling, never lose focus on their strengths. Core strengths are the strongest path to building self-confidence.
It’s tough to struggle at something that seems to come easily to other kids. This is the tricky line you have to walk. You need to be firm about schoolwork and routine, but make sure to show constant love, support, and patience.
Reading
Each kid is unique and learns in different ways, so use what you know about your child’s strengths and weaknesses. There’s no perfect recipe, but it usually involves a lot of practice, routine, love, and support..
Read. A lot. There are all kinds of ways to support your child’s reading. Try some of these ideas:
Make learning playful. It always helps when learning doesn’t feel like work. A few ideas:
Students with dyslexia have difficulty learning to read because their brains associate sounds and letter combinations inefficiently. But cursive can help them with the decoding process because it integrates hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills and other brain and memory functions. Some of the most recent research is showing that when the hands are involved, it’s a stronger association for learning and memory.
In the BLS program your child will work on cursive handwriting. Please work with them as much as possible at home on this skill. You will see homework for cursive whenever a new concept is introduced. On the days students don’t have homework from me, they should still practice letters learned. Attached, you will find the cursive strokes we use in class.
Cursive Stroke Descriptions: This is the language I use in BLS to help students learn cursive. When you recieve progress reports for your child from me, I will share a link for my cursive series. All letters are included as well as videos to help your child work on this skill at home.
www.neuhaus.org/document.doc?id=261
Trace and Copy pages: I use these each time I introduce a new letter to students. It's a way to become familiar with the feel of the letter.
www.neuhaus.org/document.doc?id=260
Letters grouped by approach stroke:
www.neuhaus.org/document.doc?id=262
Great article about handwriting:
"Handwriting is a multi-sensory activity. As you form each letter, your hand shares information with language processing areas in your brain. As your eyes track what you’re writing, you engage these areas. The same goes if you say letter sounds and words when you write.
Research shows there’s something special about language development and the act of handwriting. In studies, kids who practice handwriting do better at reading and spelling. The reason? Some experts believe that forming letters by hand while learning sounds activates reading circuits in the brain that promote literacy."
https://www.understood.org/en/community-events/blogs/expert-corner/2018/09/24/the-unexpected-connection-between-handwriting-and-learning-to-read?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg
While working on improving the weaknesses, such as reading, writing and spelling, never lose focus on their strengths. Core strengths are the strongest path to building self-confidence.
It’s tough to struggle at something that seems to come easily to other kids. This is the tricky line you have to walk. You need to be firm about schoolwork and routine, but make sure to show constant love, support, and patience.
Reading
Each kid is unique and learns in different ways, so use what you know about your child’s strengths and weaknesses. There’s no perfect recipe, but it usually involves a lot of practice, routine, love, and support..
Read. A lot. There are all kinds of ways to support your child’s reading. Try some of these ideas:
- Listen to audio books and have your child read along with them.
- Make sure he spends some time reading alone, both quietly and aloud.
- Re-read his favorite books. It may be a little boring for you, but it helps him learn.
- Take turns reading books aloud together.
- Talk about the stories you read together and ask questions like, “What do you think happens next?”
- Use schoolbooks, but you can also branch out into graphic novels and comic books, too. Reading things your child is interested in or excited about can be motivating.
Make learning playful. It always helps when learning doesn’t feel like work. A few ideas:
- Make up songs, poems, and even dances to help remember things.
- Play word games.
- If your child is younger, use nursery rhymes and play silly rhyming games.
- Work closely with your child’s school. You may need to push to get the services your child needs.
- Use technology. With tablets, smartphones, and computers, you’ll have a lot of helpful tools as your child gets older. Online dictionaries, spell-check, and text-to-speech software can make a big difference in your child’s progress, as long as the assignment allows for their use.
- Keep schoolwork organized. Staying organized is hard when you have dyslexia. Help your child break big tasks into smaller chunks. Then, work together on a system to keep track of schoolwork. For example, you might use different-colored folders for class notes versus homework, or a giant calendar to keep track of due dates. For older kids, reminders and alarms on smartphones, tablets, and computers can play a role, too.
Students with dyslexia have difficulty learning to read because their brains associate sounds and letter combinations inefficiently. But cursive can help them with the decoding process because it integrates hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills and other brain and memory functions. Some of the most recent research is showing that when the hands are involved, it’s a stronger association for learning and memory.
In the BLS program your child will work on cursive handwriting. Please work with them as much as possible at home on this skill. You will see homework for cursive whenever a new concept is introduced. On the days students don’t have homework from me, they should still practice letters learned. Attached, you will find the cursive strokes we use in class.
Cursive Stroke Descriptions: This is the language I use in BLS to help students learn cursive. When you recieve progress reports for your child from me, I will share a link for my cursive series. All letters are included as well as videos to help your child work on this skill at home.
www.neuhaus.org/document.doc?id=261
Trace and Copy pages: I use these each time I introduce a new letter to students. It's a way to become familiar with the feel of the letter.
www.neuhaus.org/document.doc?id=260
Letters grouped by approach stroke:
www.neuhaus.org/document.doc?id=262
Great article about handwriting:
"Handwriting is a multi-sensory activity. As you form each letter, your hand shares information with language processing areas in your brain. As your eyes track what you’re writing, you engage these areas. The same goes if you say letter sounds and words when you write.
Research shows there’s something special about language development and the act of handwriting. In studies, kids who practice handwriting do better at reading and spelling. The reason? Some experts believe that forming letters by hand while learning sounds activates reading circuits in the brain that promote literacy."
https://www.understood.org/en/community-events/blogs/expert-corner/2018/09/24/the-unexpected-connection-between-handwriting-and-learning-to-read?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg