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Need some help-ok-having a brain freeze-having a student who has Dyslexia "sound out" a word is one of worst things- right? or not right? I am confused-this weekend had a first level class on Susan Barton training and we learned about phonemes and breaking words into sounds-so I am really confused-then why did we spend all day doing that? HELP
Jody It's extremely important that a child with dyslexia is given explicit instruction on how to sound out a word. All children should be taught to break words into individual graphemes. But, you need to make sure those graphemes are explicitly taught so that when they are sounding out the word, they are not guessing. Unfortunately, a lot of "sounding o...See More
Mar 24, 2009


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