Dyslexia Instruction: Phonemic Awareness Isn’t Enough

Dyslexia Instruction: Girl listening to book while tracking along

Because it’s teaching to the weakness, not to the strength Rote memory comes hard for those with dyslexia. However, I’ve known many students who put in phenomenal effort to memorize all the letter sounds, blends, syllables, and rules of the English language. Unfortunately, the payoff was NOT carefree easy reading! Automatic word recognition just didn’t […]

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