Can Phonics Plus Five work with children diagnosed with dyslexia?
Phonics Plus Five is definitely useful for children diagnosed with dyslexia. The system has been designed to teach a range of skills vital to reading but omitted from other programs. Many of these skills are precisely the ones that children with dyslexia need to develop. For example, the children often have problems with visual memory so that even when they have seen a word many times, they do not recognize it. From the start and in every lesson thereafter, visual memory is a key skill in the Phonics Plus Five system. Other features of the system address the specific language deficits associated with dyslexia, such as the notable difficulties they have with the “little” words that permeate each page such as “there, who, of”) In combination, they work to steadily build the fund of skills the children need to become fluent readers and writers.
