Dyslexia Friendly Schools

How to do it.

Sarah Asome Outstanding Primary Teacher 2015 (VIC Ed Excellence Awards)

AMADA (Associate Member of the ADA) Certified Structured Literacy Teacher - Certificate Centre for

Effective Reading Instruction (CERI) USA

Introduction

BWPS is school situated in a High Socio-Economic area and achieves very good results compare to the state average.

On closer inspection we saw we were not catering to all of our students

% of Students 1 year or more below expected level

Direction for Change

Clearly students are not reaching potential.

Staff knowledge and skills were proving insufficient to be able to deal with literacy

issues.

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Prep AUSVELS Reading SEM 2 - 2015

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Explicit Instruction Model I do

We do

You do

WHY…..Multisensory Structured Langauge

Orton- Gillingham (OG), MSL, Structured Literacy

Simultaneously Multisensory (not just writing in sand!) 2 or more senses at once – V- A- K

Structured, direct and explicit

Sequential

Diagnostic and cumulative

Cognitive and emotionally sound

Not a program!

Gentle Cindy Rule VIDEO

EARLY Identification One to one assessment with all students prior to

starting school

Phonemic and phonological awareness screening for all students in Foundation

New students to the school screened

Careful RTI monitoring of students receiving support

In depth profiling of identified students

EARLY Intervention Support groups begin in foundation

Flexible and ongoing support

Working with tutors and outside agencies.

Not ‘bolt on’ support for Sarah to ‘fix’

LEARNING SUPPORT TEACHERS

So what changed……. Rewrote the school curriculum documents, phonics,

spelling, writing, morphology and currently mathematics.

A huge amount of PD for staff from ADA/LDA. Jodi Clements and Lorraine Hammond.

All school decisions are based on research.

MSL (Structured Literacy) pedagogy through explicit instruction

Awareness

Parent support group – empowering parents and students

BYOD IPAD for identified students.

We think differently- Planning and assessments

Working with kinders

Culture of the school

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Accommodations Extra time

Reduced load

Rest breaks

Scaffolding and structure

Preteaching and reinforcement e.g. Maths Mastery

Resources – e.g. decodable texts

Use of technology

Assistive technology Voice to text and text to voice

Mind mapping

Spell checkers

Word processors

Apps to reinforce spelling

Audio books

Useful Websites and APPS Lower primary

Nessy – Hairy letter, Hairy Phonics, Hairy Words, Chimp Foo, Dyslexia Quest

Decodable books- Fitzroy, Little Learners Love Literacy

Word shark

A Sound Way

Oz phonics

Reading Doctor

Wet, Dry Try- Handwriting

Explain Everything

Clicker phonics, Clicker sentences

Kidspiration

Upper Primary /Secondary Prizmo/Snaptype

Inspiration

Writeonline

I Read Write

Explain everything

Easy Spelling Aid

AcceleRead AcceleWrite

Clarospeak

DragonSpeak

QUESTIONS ????????

For more information contact TTR4L, ADA, LDA or SPELD

Also……..IDA (USA) and BDA (UK)

Dyslexia Support Facebook pages

Contacts:

asome.sarah.s@edumail.vic.gov.au

THANK YOU