My child has Dyslexia. How can Letterland help with learning literacy?
Some of the best teaching ideas in the Letterland system have come from children with Dyslexia that Lyn Wendon has taught. They loved creating ideational connections to explain letter shapes and their frequently shifting sounds. Their stories became recall routes, overcoming their previous failures to recall the many sound/symbol correspondences that make up the English language. An early introduction to the Early Years (pre-school) or Primary Years materials (Kindergarten) can prevent many problems of letter identification and orientation from ever arising. If your child knows the alphabet sounds well and can read regular words, and it is the structure of more complex words that hold him/her up, you may like to look closely at the sections 4 and 5 of the Primary Years Teacher’s Guide and the Advanced Teacher’s Guide. Each story explanation can open up a wide range of words of the same structure for him/her, both in reading and in spelling. (The spelling is always the trickiest part!)
