How to teach reading to dyslexic students

HOW TO TEACH READING TO DYSLEXIC STUDENTS
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In this video, I will be explaining strategies to teach reading to dyslexic students.
It's important to remember that what makes good practice for dyslexic students is actually the best practice for all students so in order to be able to rapidly accelerate the progress of even the very top students in our class we would use the same methods as we do for our dyslexic students.
The first thing you need to make sure is that you are using what's called explicit teaching. Explicit teaching is a method where the teacher has a clear goal or learning objective for the lesson. They model or demonstrate or explain to the students how to perform this particular skill. They practice it with the whole group or the whole class to make sure that all of the children have had a guided practice turn at trying the skill. After the student has practised, they give the students an activity to independently practice and show that they can perform the skill that has been set for them.
Now explicit teaching is kind of falling out of favour in recent years as we tend to use more approaches like student-centred learning or exploratory learning. There's definitely a time and a place for those teaching methods but cracking the English code is so incredibly difficult. We don't want kids to have to figure that out themselves or leave them to explore literature and hope they crack the complex code.
We want to make sure that we teach it to them really explicitly.
The second thing your reading program needs to be if you would like to teach reading to dyslexic students is structured and systematic.
That means that we break down that English code into all of the components that feed into it:
Phonology
Morphology
Etymology
We teach these skills one at a time in a really clear order using just a few words so that the students can achieve mastery and that they're introduced to the code from the easiest and basic levels right through to the most complex and difficult levels.
One of the things that we tend to see with dyslexic students who are a little bit older is, a lot of them get the phonics approach early on which is absolutely critical in getting children to learn to read.
But because English is actually morphophonemic, that means it's informed by meaningful units:
Prefixes
Bases
Suffixes
Phonology
Children don't often spell correctly when they're older, they spell quite phonetically.
So it's absolutely essential to get kids reading by using a structured and synthetic phonics program.
The third thing is intervention.
I wish I could remove phrases like:
"Let's wait and see".
"They're struggling but let's wait and see."
We've actually shown through research that if a student starts school behind in reading and if they don't receive targeted and evidence-based intervention, they are very likely to continue to fall further and further behind their peers. They don't just magically catch up with time.
Reading problems are not fixed with time they're fixed with intervention so please if you've ever used these words to describe a student, that's just not correct.
Please remove those words from your vocabulary.
The fourth thing that your reading program must include is explicit instruction in morphology and etymology.
There's more and more research emerging suggesting that older learners really benefit from morphological and etymological instruction. This is not to say that we wait until the child is older before we start teaching morphology, we start introducing these things very early on very simply simple sorts of ways so that we alert the students to the fact that morphemes exist and that they should be looking for them and thinking about them in their reading and spelling.
Quick reminder - morphology is a study of prefixes bases and suffixes and the spelling rules that we use to join them together.
So you need to make sure that your program includes instruction in morphology and etymology as well.
The fifth thing that your reading program should include is decodable readers.
Decodable readers are readers that have been very carefully selected to introduce phonics patterns one at a time and not include words the child hasn't already been explicitly taught.

[@annalinard2892]

You are right on the money, Sarah! It's great to hear it from a young person too! Keep up your great work!

[@expeditionsandevents3491]

Love this, so informative!!

[@suzannediermann223]

I would love to see you create a correct phoneme articulation video!

[@agenarts]

I kinda have to be a tutor for my cousin. He is showing signs of dyslexia and is behind in school. He is 7 yrs old. He is getting bullied by other kids because he cant read. My grandma said she was gonna pay me to teach him. He loves me so much. Im the only person mature enough that he isnt mean to (hes rude to my grandma and his mom).