American Dyslexia Association

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  • TextProject – Free reading texts for teachers, students, tutors, and parents

    TextProject – Free reading texts for teachers, students, tutors, and parents

    TextProject is a website offering high-quality student texts and teacher guides, all of which are available for free download. Text for students, vocabulary lessons and lists, professional development modules and videos – TextProject provides a world of open-access resources for teachers, teacher educators, parents, tutors, and students.

    Some examples of the resources you’ll find:

    BeginningReads™

    TextProject’s BeginningReads program supports teachers, parents, and tutors in helping children develop their reading skills. The goal of BeginningReads is to connect students’ oral language knowledge with written language. Ten levels (of 12 books each) are available. More information: click here.

    FYI for kids

    A collection of engaging and high-quality magazine articles designed to enhance the Common Core classroom’s reading repertoire. More information: click here.

    SummerReads™

    Students who don’t read much over the summer show a decline in reading performance from the end of one grade to the start of the next. Research shows that even reading 4 or 5 books over the summer helps to prevent the summer slump. SummerReads are accessible, engaging texts for at-risk readers… for FREE! And there are enough texts for an entire summer of reading. More information: click here.

    But there is even more!  Check it out here: Textproject.org

  • Dinosaur perception training

    Dinosaur perception training

    Kids + dinosaurs = fun! Enjoy our new free no-prep printables with dinosaurs. Kids will have fun and train their visual and spatial perception, patterning, and counting up to 5.

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    Visual and spatial perception:

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    Patterning:

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    Counting till 5:

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    Download: Dinosaur perception training

    You want even more dinosaurs? Check out this free online game: Dinosaur – Find the pairs! You can choose different levels. The game can be played in any browser on any computer, smartphone or tablet.

  • What is dyslexia?

    What is dyslexia?

    Dyslexia affects up to 1 in 5 people, but the experience of dyslexia isn’t always the same. This difficulty in processing language exists along a spectrum — one that doesn’t necessarily fit with labels like “normal” and “defective.” Kelli Sandman-Hurley urges us to think again about dyslexic brain function and to celebrate the neurodiversity of the human brain.

    Dr. Sally Shaywitz recently wrote, “In the case of dyslexia, (while there is always the desire for more), there is currently sufficient knowledge to do a far better job in identifying, intervening in and accommodating dyslexia. There is an unacceptable and harmful wide gap between the robust existing science of dyslexia and how this knowledge is implemented, typically not implemented, by schools. In dyslexia, there is not a knowledge gap but rather an action gap. As a consequence, dyslexic children frequently go unidentified, unremediated, and unaccommodated, with great harm to the children, to their families, and to society. Educators must act to translate this body of converging science into policy and practice. Our children’s lives and futures (human capital) are too precious to waste.” We could not agree more!

    Watch this compelling video and then visit “What is dyslexia?” on Ed.ted for more information, discussions, and links.

  • ReadWorks: Free resources for reading comprehension

    ReadWorks: Free resources for reading comprehension

    Can children learn reading comprehension? Of course, they can. Thanks to ReadWorks, this is not even expensive. In fact, it is completely free. This non-profit site offers research-proven tools so that students can improve their academic achievement.

    ReadWorks provides research-based units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages online, for free, to be shared broadly. The curriculum is aligned to the Common Core State Standards and the standards of all 50 states. Most importantly, ReadWorks is faithful to the most effective research-proven instructional practices in reading comprehension.

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    ReadWorks is completely free. You only need to register to access all the resources.

    More information: ReadWorks.org

    Take a tour of the site: Click here

  • Storyline Online

    Storyline Online

    Reading to children has been repeatedly shown to improve their reading, writing, and communication skills, logical thinking, concentration, and general academic aptitude… as well as inspire a love of reading. The Screen Actors Guild Foundation records well-known actors reading children’s books and makes graphically dynamic videos so that children around the world can be read to with just the click of a Storyline Online video book image. The videos are free, and there is no need to register. Enjoy!

    STORYLINE ONLINE

  • 1500 free worksheets

    1500 free worksheets

    The American Dyslexia Association offers more than 1500 free worksheets on its website. The worksheets follow the AFS-method , a very successful method to help children with dyslexia and dyscalculia. If a child has dyslexia or dyscalculia, it is not enough to work on the mistakes. The child also has to learn to be attentive all the time when reading, writing, and calculating. Furthermore, it is important to train the child’s perception to improve reading, writing, and calculating skills.

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  • Dyslexia – Information in 18 languages

    Dyslexia – Information in 18 languages

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    The American Dyslexia Association promotes the interests of people with dyslexia and dyscalculia. It is important to inform people about these themes. Dr. Astrid Kopp-Duller, president of ADA, always stresses how important it is to help children with dyslexia and dyscalculia on a pedagogical-didactic level. Because it needs to be said time and again: THESE CHILDREN ARE NOT ILL OR DISABLED, they simply need another method to learn how to read, write and calculate.

    To reach as many people as possible, some basic information about dyslexia and dyscalculia is now available in 18 languages:

    Do you know an adult, a child, a family who may be interested? Please, hand them this information. The more people are informed and the earlier children are helped, the better!

  • New freebie: I spy … superheroes!

    New freebie: I spy … superheroes!

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    Here is another “I spy…” freebie. Children simply love them. This time it is about “I spy … superheroes”. Print them out, color, count and simply enjoy all the fun. At the same time, children train attention, visual perception and fine motor skills.

    Grab this freebie here: I spy … superheroes

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  • American Wordspeller™ & Phonetic Dictionary

    American Wordspeller™ & Phonetic Dictionary

    Dyslexics are often recommended to use a dictionary for writing. However, this does not help them much since they often do not know how the words are written. So for example, a dyslexic child may want to write “queen” but thinks it is written “kween”. Searching under “k” won’t bring any results and more likely than not the child will give up. This is no longer necessary! Now dyslexics can use the American Wordspeller™ & Phonetic Dictionary. This dictionary finds words by how they sound. This is how it works:
    Type in 2-4 letters of your word by “how it sounds to you”. Spell it just how it SOUNDS to you. NO spelling RULES required. If you spell the first 2-3 letters wrong, good, this dictionary will find your word no matter how you spell it as long as the letters SOUND right to you. Over 65,000 common, everyday words excluding words which require capitalized letter at the beginning. There are no proper nouns in this dictionary such as people, places, things, times and events. The database would be too large.

    Remember, just type the first 2-4 letters that YOU THINK your word starts with into the search bar. If there are too many choices…add a 4th or 5th letter to narrow your search.

    FOUR RESOURCE TOOLS IN ONE

    1. Phonetic Wordspeller™ Cross-Reference is automatic. If your spelling sounds or is spelled similar to any other words…they will all be listed
    2. Dictionary with brief definitions
    3. Suffix Speller – root words along with all possible word endings completely spelled out for you!
    4. Prefixes listed – complete with definitions

    This app does not require internet connection! It is available for IOS and Android.

    More information: American Wordspeller™ & Phonetic Dictionary