Did you know one in five students exhibit traits of dyslexia? Enhance your staff’s understanding of dyslexia with this visually engaging, research-based presentation. The Understanding Dyslexia PowerPoint (31 Slides) is designed for professional development sessions, providing educators with the knowledge and tools to identify and support students with dyslexia effectively. What’s Included: Visual Insights: Eye-opening visuals that illustrate how dyslexia affects reading and comprehension, helping you see the world through a dyslexic learner’s eyes. Real-World Scenarios: A look into the daily struggles and triumphs of a student with dyslexia, fostering empathy and understanding. Research-Driven Content: Explore foundational concepts like the Simple View of Reading, Scarborough’s Reading Rope, and key aspects of dyslexia diagnosis and intervention. Actionable Strategies: Implement practical, evidence-based techniques such as phonics interventions, multi-sensory activities, and scaffolded comprehension support. Interactive Applications: Engage participants with reflective activities, including crafting lesson plans tailored to struggling readers. Empower your teaching and create a supportive learning environment for all students with this impactful resource.

This dyslexia friendly, Year 6 SATS resource is designed to help students with additional needs familiarise themselves with the SATS Reading Paper. It contains three texts along with activities to help students read and understand the type of texts they will encounter in the exam. Key Features: Spelling and Vocabulary Development: Students will learn to spell complex words through a syllable-based color-coding system, making challenging vocabulary accessible and memorable. This approach not only improves spelling but also boosts pronunciation and fluency. Meaning Exploration: Each text is accompanied by a vocabulary section, encouraging students to tick unfamiliar words and engage in dictionary skills or discussions with peers and adults. This deepens their understanding of language and fosters a love for words. Fluency Practice: With timed reading exercises, students can track their reading speed and accuracy, promoting fluency and confidence. Multiple readings encourage improvement, allowing students to see their progress over time. Engaging Texts: Featuring three captivating extracts - The Majestic Blue Whale, Against the Ramp, and Whispers of the Hive - students will be immersed in diverse topics that inspire curiosity and discussion. These texts are designed to resonate with students, sparking their imagination and enhancing comprehension skills. SATS Style Questions: Prepare your students for assessments with shorter questions that mimic the SATS format. Students can collaborate in pairs to tackle comprehension questions, reinforcing their understanding while building teamwork skills. An additional SATS tips text is provided to share with the students prior to the exam. Equip your students with the tools they need to excel in reading while fostering a passion for literature. Our resource is not just a tool; it’s a pathway to building lifelong learners who are confident in their reading abilities.

A mindmap on some of the struggles a child with Dyselxia faces and a few classroom strategies to help them

Staff Meeting / CPD / Teacher Training / Inset Making your classroom dyslexia-friendly PPT slides Includes: waves of support The inclusive classroom videos How will I recognise dyslexic learners? How can a positive classroom ethos help? How can I improve access to the curriculum? How can grouping help? How can I help learners to develop independent organisational skills? How can I foster the self-esteem of ALL, including dyslexic, students? How can I foster the self-esteem of dyslexic students? What specific difficulties might dyslexic learners have with Mathematics? How can I help learners in mathematics? How can display help? How can I use ‘positive feedback’? Planning and delivering effective small group / individual interventions Individualised schemes of work Successful teaching of reading Successful teaching of spelling Handwriting What is a survival kit ? The effective use of ICT Dyslexia Screening Special arrangements for SATS Useful resources and contacts

This resource pack offers a comprehensive suite of non-standardised assessments designed to help educators screen for potential learning difficulties associated with dyslexia and evaluate key literacy skills. Ideal for informal screening and informing differentiated instruction, these tools provide valuable insights into a student’s memory, phonics, visual discrimination, handwriting, reading fluency, and spelling abilities. Please note, these assessments are not clinically validated for diagnosing dyslexia or making official educational placements. The pack includes: Dyslexia Assessment (Non-Standardized): This section provides tests to screen for memory difficulties often linked with dyslexia. It includes: Auditory Letter Memory Assessment: Evaluates a student’s short-term memory for letters, both forwards and backwards, offering insights into working memory and attention. Auditory Number Memory Assessment: Assesses short-term memory capacity for numbers, both forwards and backwards, which is a common component of cognitive assessments. Phonics Reading Test (Nonsense Words): Utilises made-up words across two lists to assess decoding skills based on phonics rules, rather than memorisation, helping identify specific phonics gaps. Visual Discrimination & Tracking Assessment: Includes tasks for letter matching, reversal identification, and visual tracking with similar letters in context. Handwriting Assessment: Features both copying and dictation tasks to observe handwriting quality and speed. Reading Fluency Assessment: This non-standardised test measures oral reading fluency, focusing on accuracy and rate. It includes graded texts (Extracts One to Four) with estimated reading times and error guides for various proficiency levels (Below Average, Average, Above Average). Spelling Assessment (Non-Standardised): Designed to provide an approximate “spelling age” by assessing a range of spelling skills, from basic phonetics to complex morphology and irregular spellings. All assessments emphasize their non-standardised nature and are intended for informal screening to identify specific difficulties and inform educational strategies.

This is a 10-15 minute narrated assembly about dyslexia. It includes a short downloaded video which will never disappear and defines the condition, how it feels and the benefits of dyslexia looking at famous people with it. It goes through the problems someone with dyslexia has but also focuses on the strengths of having dyslexia. It also shows the students common misconceptions of dyslexia and finishes with an extension video if needed. You can easily delete the icon on each slide if you do not want it narrated. This was originally an assembly for Years 7-13 (Ages 11-18 KS3, KS4 and KS5) but it is also suitable for KS2. It can also be linked with the new RSHE curriculum, the PSHE curriculum or a whole school tutor time resource. There are no written activities in this presentation but it can easily be lengthened if it is needed for a longer lesson.

Understanding Dyslexia: Strategies for Support and Success This presentation will explore the fundamentals of dyslexia, including its definition, characteristics, and signs. We will discuss how dyslexia affects learning, particularly in spelling and working memory, and provide practical strategies for creating a dyslexia-friendly classroom. Attendees will gain insights into multisensory teaching techniques, differentiation for writing, and useful desktop aids that support dyslexic learners. Whether you’re an educator, parent, or advocate, this session will offer valuable tools and resources to foster an inclusive and supportive learning environment.

This resource can be used along side my other Big Spelling resources. Big Spellings can be used in a primary or junior school so that each child has a spelling list to suit their ability. (see my other resources which include initial assessments and full instructions). These lists can be used for a few children in each class who really struggle to retain spellings. Each week these Dyslexia Friendly spellings consist of the same 5 High Frequency Words for 3 weeks in a row. Each week the other 5 spellings change and are phonic based, with the easier sounds first. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!

Dyslexia toolkit aims to help subject teachers, form tutors and teaching assistants to support dyslexic students in the mainstream classroom at key stage 3 and key stage 4. Whatever your role in supporting students with dyslexia, this toolkit will give you understanding, tangible ideas and practical strategies to enable young people to realise their full potential. What’s included? This 56-page toolkit includes: information about neurodiversity, the strengths of neurodivergent people and some of the challenges they face information about dyslexia and how to identify it in the classroom a CPD PowerPoint for staff training, parents’ evenings and senior leadership meetings advice on avoiding sensory overload games to develop learners’ short-term and working memory templates for sentence starters, task maps and writing planners to reduce the load on learners’ working memory guidance on chunking tasks into manageable steps to help students to process information dyslexia strategies for reading writing strategies for students with dyslexia information about the link between a weak working memory and spelling difficulties, plus dyslexia spelling strategies strategies for supporting students with dyslexia in the maths classroom top tips on harnessing dyslexic strengths such as empathy and problem solving How does it support dyslexic students? Dyslexia toolkit offers dyslexia-friendly strategies that can be used with the whole class so that neurodivergent learners are not put on the spot. There are also approaches that can be carried out in small groups, and suggestions for how dyslexic students can support their classmates, fostering a supportive learning environment and helping young people to feel empowered. Information and activities are provided to raise awareness of what it feels like to have dyslexia, and ways are suggested of playing to dyslexic learners’ strengths. The toolkit includes tick lists for learners to articulate their own areas of challenge and learning preferences, and it provides printable resources to help students to plan written tasks. There is also a step-by-step guide for students to reading for comprehension and an overview of pros and cons of assistive technology such as electronic readers. About the writer Dyslexia toolkit was written by Dr Helen Ross, a leading voice on dyslexia within UK education. She is an experienced public speaker, international consultant and researcher, and contributor to a wide range of publications; Helen is also dyslexic. She supports families, teachers and organisations to better understand the implications of dyslexia, neurodiversity and special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). In this toolkit, Helen draws on her experiences as a classroom teacher, SENDCo and dyslexia expert to help you to understand what dyslexia is, which aspects of learning can be affected by dyslexia and what you can do to support dyslexic learners.

This useful ‘screening form’ identifies dyslexic tendencies and is an excellent tool to determine whether or not a child requires a formal assessment. This form was put together in consultation with a UK dyslexic specialist. Please note: Individual pupil observations should be carried out over 2 to 3 weeks and this screening form does not diagnose dyslexia.

This dyslexia friendly, functional skills writing workbook includes a structured approach to improve writing by using model answers, questionnaires, plans and colour-coded spelling of key words. The questions are focused on improving a park and reviewing a visit to an amusement park. Each section begins with typical writing questions on the Functional Skills (AQA) Paper. To engage students, questionnaires and discussion questions are provided to help students develop their ideas. This will also support the speaking and listening element of the exam. There are colour coded words to aid the spelling and reading of key words related to the questions. This is aimed to support students with additional needs and has proved an effective way to support dyslexics due to the visual elements involved. There are two model answers - one aimed at Level One and another at Level Two. This is provided to differentiate for those who show progress in their writing. A scheme accompanies this unit and provides additional ideas to support teaching. This is an invaluable resource to deliver the writing element of the Functional Skills exam.

A 14 page powerpoint presentation on Dyslexia for Teachers, TAs or parents written by a qualified SENDCO working in an International School. Useful for professional development. Includes identification, assessment, interventions, difficulties reading and writing, mythbusters etc.

A quiz and cut out activity on the facts about dyslexia, and a design task for students to create their own dyslexia awareness logo! Use this resource for Dyslexia Awareness Week to educate your students on the facts about dyslexia and get them thinking about how they can support their dyslexic peers. Dyslexia is a learning difference to do with information processing. It primarily affects reading, writing and spelling skills. However, it can also affect concentration, organisation and the ability to remember information.

These pages from the Waterstones website include advice on what makes a dyslexia friendly book plus a list of dyslexia friendly titles and a downloadble guide to books for young dyslexic readers.

This presentation was put together to inform and inspire people working with dyslexic learners.

This version of the play is perfect for dyslexic students! No more difficulty reading, retrieving key quotes or struggling to link the words of the play to visual cues. I have created this for my dyslexic students but any students with processing difficulties or ADD would also find this layout useful. The entire text is doubled spaced and laid out in a dyslexia friendly structure. All character names are in bold making it easy to identify a change in speaker. There are visual cues throughout the text to help students make links between the words on the page and what is happening in the play. I have also highlighted key quotes and moments throughout the play which are linked to the separate question booklet that comes with the download. All quotes are highlighted in red with page number prompts. I have already used this with my students and it has increased their confidence in reading aloud and engaging with the complexities of the play. Anyone with access to IPads can open this on the devices to save printing costs!

This booklet gives information about dyslexia and how teachers and teaching assistants can support student's within the classroom. The booklet includes: - A quiz to show understanding - Explains what dyslexia is and why its important to identify - How it effects reading and writing, amongst other information

Dyslexia checklist created for learner walks to check in class practice. Useful for those doing observations, or for teachers who want to check their dyslexia practice for each lesson. For teachers wanting to check if their classroom is dyslexia friendly please see my checklist available too.

This set of resources developed by ‘British Dyslexia Association’, can offer support to teachers working with children with dyslexia. This resource provides information on how dyslexia affects musicians and how those with the familiar traits need to create strategies to help them through their problems.