Showing posts with label Confusing Spellings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Confusing Spellings. Show all posts

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Does Sight-Words Prevent Reading and Cause Dyslexia? - Video



English letters appear in many confusing variations. Nobody can memorize them all as designs (lower case, UPPER CASE, italic, handwriting, and countless typefaces).

There are actually MANY reasons why Sight-Words are a cruel failure. This video presents the main one--designs must appear in one predictable form. English letters appear in many forms.

Friday, February 1, 2013

Dyslexia - TES Special Education: Confusing Spellings

Confusing Spellings - Homophones Interactive presentation focusing on there, where, here, wear, hear, they're, we're and their. 

Presentation can be worked through in any order due to triggers included within. 

Gently paced to allow for thinking time/discussion etc. 

Presentation uses a font called Chinacat (round a, easy to read) and this has been embedded. 

Backgrounds are blue/grey and the font is dark blue rather than black.

Read more at TES website or on TES Pin Interest