Interesting Read for Parents of Dyslexic Children

Can any of you parents relate to these?

20 Things Only Parents of Children with Dyslexia Would Understand

20 Things to Remember if You Love a Person With Dyslexia

Good Stuff You Should Know About

International Dyslexia Association Handbook

Fact Sheets from International Dyslexia Association

Supporting Children with Dyslexia at Home

Today I discovered two new websites that I am absolutely thrilled about!

HOMESCHOOLING WITH DYSLEXIA is dedicated to helping parents educate their dyslexic children at home. Although the site's main focus is homeschooling children with dyslexia, there are several resources that can be used with children who attend traditional public school.

THE LITERACY NEST is another fabulous site devoted to working with dyslexic children in a one-on-one setting. It has several great research-based resources that will help your child become a successful reader.

Welcome Back!

Welcome back to another wonderful year at Bulverde Creek Elementary! I hope you all had a very relaxing summer and are ready to get back into reading with Mrs. Green!! I am so excited to start working with my kiddos again and to meet a few new ones that have joined us from other schools.
I will begin pulling students the week of September 12. Just a reminder that I pull intervention groups Mondays thru Thursdays for 30 minutes per day. I try to pull all students in a particular grade level at one time but sometimes make adjustments based on ability level and group size.
Can't wait to see everyone!

Letter Reversals

Are your kiddos struggling with letter reversals?
Letter reversals can be one symptom of dyslexia, however this does not mean that every child who reverses letters is dyslexic. It is common for younger kiddos to reverse letters when they are first learning to write due to the fact that their fine motor skills are still developing. The reversals typically disappear by the age of eight years old or second grade.
The following links include some simple exercises and fun activities to help correct letter reversals.

Practical Pages

Bay Tree Learning

Make, Take & Teach

Mind Maps

Fish In a Tree

This story follows the struggles of a student named Ally, a bright young woman whose intelligence is hidden behind a monumental struggle to read. It takes a special teacher to peel back the layers of the defensive wall Ally has built and make her believe she is special and can succeed, something she never dreamed possible.
For anyone who has wondered what dyslexia feels like from the inside, for anyone who has ever felt "less than" because they did not fit a one-size-fits-all mold, for anyone who has had that one special teacher that changed their life, for anyone who has BEEN that teacher, and for anyone who loves a good underdog story that leaves you cheering through the lump in your throat...I recommend this book!!

Penguin offers an Educational Guidebook for Fish in a Tree as well as Mullally Hunt's other book, One for the Murphy's here. 

What's it like to be dyslexic? Stand in front of an audience and read the following, and it will give you a good sense of Ally's life before Mr. Daniels figured things out:

We pegin our qrib eq a faziliar blace, a poqy like yours enq zine.
Iq conqains a hunqraq qrillion calls qheq work qogaqhys py qasign.
Enq wiqhin each one of qhese zany calls, each one qheq hes QNA,
Qhe QNA coqe is axecqly qhe saze, a zess-broquceq rasuze.
So qhe coqe in each call is iqanqical, a razarkaple puq veliq claiz.
Qhis zeans qheq qhe calls are nearly alike, puq noq axecqly qhe saze.
Qake, for insqence, qhe calls of qhe inqasqines; qheq qhey're viqal is cysqainly blain.
Now qhink apouq qhe way you woulq qhink if qhose calls wyse qhe calls in your prain.

You can find out what this passage really says HERE.