American Dyslexia Association

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  • Embracing dyslexia

    Embracing dyslexia

    Embracing Dyslexia is a thoughtful and moving exploration of dyslexia from an insider’s perspective, weaving together interviews with parents, adult dyslexics, researchers, educators, and experts to provide an accurate portrayal of a learning difference that affects between 15 and 20% of the population.

    Parents share emotional stories of their frustration over failing to understand why their children were struggling with reading, writing, and spelling, and the life-altering impact the word dyslexia had on their lives.

    Adult dyslexics courageously open up and speak candidly about their dyslexia, sharing their struggles and successes they had in school and in their adult lives.

    Experts and educators define what dyslexia is and illustrate why early dyslexia screening for all children is vital. They also share how effective tutoring, classroom accommodations, and recognizing and fostering the natural gifts and abilities of a child with dyslexia can take them from feeling stupid and experiencing failure on a daily basis to believing in themselves and knowing that they can be successful.

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  • Dino – Perception Training

    Dino – Perception Training

     

    Dino – Perception Training –  is today’s freebie:

    Arrange dinos from small to big, find the dino that is exactly the same, and find pieces from a picture. These exercises train visual and spatial perception and attention – important skills for reading, writing, and calculating.

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  • Picture chaos

    Picture chaos

    Over at openclipart.org, we have seen a nice penguin that has been waiting for an appearance in our worksheets for a while. The penguin, with all its disguises, is perfect for today’s freebie Picture chaos. The pictures are mixed up, and children have to put the numbers in the correct order. The penguins are also added as a template for those who have great difficulty with this kind of exercise. You can use the templates as memory cards. These exercises train attention and visual and spatial perception – important skills for reading, writing, and calculating.

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  • Tracing exercise

    Tracing exercise

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    Tracing is a very good exercise for dyslexic and dyscalculic children. Tracing trains attention, fine motor skills and visual and spatial perception. Today’s freebie offers a mini-book with different abstract forms to trace and to draw. First, children have to trace the form, then they have to draw the form into the box.

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  • Honeycomb Puzzles

    Honeycomb Puzzles

    Honeycomb puzzles are a great means to train attention and perception. Today, three honeycomb puzzles with different themes are offered. There are two versions of each puzzle. In the second version, the honeycomb that is in the middle, is colored gray. This might be a help, especially for younger children. It is best to print the puzzles on thicker paper. You might also want to laminate them.

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    Have fun puzzling!

  • Tracing and Drawing

    Tracing and Drawing

    Children love pictures from space. With today’s freebie, they can trace a picture and then draw it into a grid. For those who are already good at drawing, there is no grid. This kind of exercise is also good for children who tend to draw everything very small.

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  • Counting with monsters

    Counting with monsters

    Many children with dyscalculia have difficulties with grasping amounts or with terms such as “less than…” or “more than…”. With today’s freebie, this can be practiced within the number range of 1 to 10.  Children have to count and to compare monsters. However, according to the AFS method, you should not just practice calculating skills, but also sensory perception. Therefore, exercises for visual and spatial perception are included.

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  • Drawing lines

    Drawing lines

    “Drawing lines” offers many possibilities to train children’s skills that are important for reading, writing, and arithmetics: attention, hand-eye coordination, visual and spatial perception. The children are counting, they have to decide whether to draw up, down, to the right, to the left, etc. This may look simple, but for some children, this is a real challenge.

    There are 5 sheets with 4 exercises on each. The children have to continue the lines in the same way. They can do this freehand or use a ruler. There are also two empty templates.

    For children who have real difficulties with this kind of exercise, it might be a good idea to laminate the pages and give the children an overhead marker. This works like magic because with an overhead marker, children are no longer afraid to make mistakes. They can easily wipe them away.

    Extra tip: If you have an iPad or tablet, open the file in an app that allows PDF-annotation. The children can do the exercise directly on the iPad/tablet. No child refuses to do the exercise, then!

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