LEARNING ENGLISH AND DYSLEXIA

All children at state school or devlet school in Turkey start to take English classes in the 4th grade.Dyslexic children will find English a hard language to learn unlike Turkish which is phonetic. They will most likely need some extra support to assist them in learning English.

Here is programme you could use to help your child if they are struggling with English . This programme is available on the internet and is free. The summer holidays maybe a good time to practice English.

Starfall is a site to help children learn to read. The site can be used for preschool through to second grade.The site has colourful graphics which will appeal to children.

Starfall focuses on letter-sound relationships, word recognition skills, and reading comprehension strategies. Beginning with the short vowel sounds, the programme offers stories along with phonics games and videos.

http://www.starfall.com/

You could try to spend about 20 minutes each day on this type of programme.

In a previous article I talked about ABRACADBRA ( Canada ) which you could also use to help your child learn English.

LEARNING ENGLISH AND DYSLEXIA

All children at state school or devlet school in Turkey start to take English classes in the 4th grade.Dyslexic children will find English a hard language to learn, unlike Turkish which is phonetic. They will most likely need some extra support to assist them in learning English.

Here is a programme you could use to help your child if they are struggling with English . This programme is available on the internet and is free. The summer holidays are maybe a good time to practice English.

Stairway to Reading is a tool to help children who struggle with reading, It is provided by the Society for Quality Education, a Canadian non-profit organization . The programme is completely phonic based.

Stairway to Reading is a one-on-one remedial reading program for students of any age who have already received some reading instruction but who are struggling with reading. It was not developed for beginning readers, although it can be used for this purpose with some small changes.Stairway to Reading comes complete with a diagnostic test, 40 lessons, flashcards, and 128 pages of completely phonetic reading material. In addition, there are games to provide extra practice. All of these materials can be downloaded and printed.

http://www.societyforqualityeducation.org/stairway2.html

ABRACADBRA

ABRACADABRA: A Literacy Resource

http://grover.concordia.ca/ABRA/current/index.php



ABRACADABRA is an interactive computer tool designed for use in Canadian primary schools. This web-based software was designed by CSLP (The Center for The Study of learning and Performance ).It is meant to aid beginning readers of English.


It covers all literacy skills :

• Sound,letter and words ( alphabetics)


• Reading fluency


• Comprehension


• Writing
  

Research studies have indicated that ABRACADBRA could be a useful tool to help second language learners as well as struggling readers


Most Turkish children study English at school, so ABRACADBRA might be a useful programme to try out with your child to help with their language learning at home.Remember that generally if your child has dyslexia they will often experience difficulty in learning foreign languages.They often encounter problems with English because the syllable structure is complex and correspondence between letters and sounds is inconsistent.As a result they will generally find it very hard to read in English.