This question comes up time and time again: What do I recommend for older teens and adults who need fast effective literacy support? Or sometimes the question is… “My child is about to start high school and is petrified. How can I help them to get ready and cope with...
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There are three simple steps you can follow to deal with anxiety in children. Anxiety is not uncommon in children with school learning difficulties, disabilities or differences. In fact, I have just successfully gone through this 3-step process with my own daughter, so I thought I would share it with...
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The problem with having a learning difficulty, disability or difference is that you can’t see it. It’s not like the child or person who has a physical disability, where you can see they are in a wheelchair or on crutches. A child with a learning difficulty won’t look any different...
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Let’s start at the beginning, with the child who is trying to get their thoughts and ideas onto the page in the written form. For children who struggle with literacy, this can be a real challenge. Forget about: nouns, verbs, adverbs or adjectives, to get started children need to know...
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This question comes up time and time again. Your view on it will most likely be determined by your educational background, your own personal experience and your understanding of dyslexia and learning difficulties. There are two distinct types of dyslexia; one is visual dyslexia and the other is phonological dyslexia....
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How do you make your child want to learn about punctuation? How can you make it fun? That’s right I said FUN! Let’s focus on the comma (,) that little pause that goes into sentences when we want the reader to take a tiny break. Full stops or periods (.)...
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I have lots of fantastic parents who visit my website and social media platforms and use the resources I create to help their children. This helps their children to get ahead in literacy and to catch up at school as well. It’s so wonderful when they contact me to tell...
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Here are 9 areas of literacy teachers need to focus on when they are teaching. The first one is phonics or the sound, symbol code. Phonics There are 26 letters in the English alphabet, A-Z. These letters combined make 46 sounds; a-, e-, i-, o-, u-, are the way we represent...
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My second son has just graduated from high school and finished year 12. We have just had his valedictory dinner at the Melbourne Museum. It was a magical evening. My school journey isn’t over just yet, I still have my daughter to go and of course, the support I offer...
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How do you go about getting an assessment or diagnosis for a struggling learner? This is a topic that I cover extensively in my book: Helping Children With Dyslexia. I wrote this book (currently in its 2nd edition) as a direct response to helping my three children who have now...
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