Week 6 Study skills, aids and accommodations
Weeks 6 Summary Supporting children with difficulties in reading and writing University of London, UCL Institute of Education & Dyslexia International The focus of week 6 is to supply more suggestions for study skills, aids, and accommodations. Most of the accommodations were reiterated from earlier weeks' lessons: extra time bigger font size, sans serif computer usage when possible give definitions and teach spelling of discipline specific vocabulary print on one side of the paper only (not two sided) don't take marks off for spelling spelling tests can be limited to words the child thinks she has memorized questions can be read aloud, if the reading itself isn't what you are evaluating evaluate only one aspect of the writing assignments, where possible (punctuation, content, syntax, grammar) be tolerant of digit reversal in mathematics give dyslexic child a summary with a few key words omitted while other children are writi