• • • Overcoming Dyslexia - Resource Book 2 - fully photocopiable set of resources supports the learner in reading and spelling vowel digraphs and diphthongs, 'soft' 'c' and 'g', common ending such as 'tion' and 'le', suffixes, prefixes, multi-syllablic and contracted words. Those familiar with the "Overcoming Dyslexia" handbook will recognise these from part two of its 'step-by-step' approach. The resources also cover the correct use of punctuation, including end of sentence marks, commas, speech marks and apostrophes, and the use of everyday research skills such as scanning and finding information in telephone directories and dictionaries. The materials include background information for the teacher, teaching and learning activities, guidance notes for parents and homework activities.
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• • • Sound Linkage - Integrated Programme for Overcoming Reading Difficulties - teaching package contains a reading and phonological training programme for use with reading-delayed and dyslexic children. It comprises: 54 laminated picture cards; a criterion-referenced test of phonological awareness; photocopiable record sheets; and an outline of a reading programme within which the phonological awareness training can be used. In addition to the materials from the first edition, the second edition includes normative data for the test, and specific examples of letter-sound "linkage" activities to supplement the purely phonological training activities. The second edition also provides information for teachers that should enable them to grade early reading books (23 levels), in order that children can make the link between sounds and words while reading text with at least 90 per cent accuracy. The materials were originally used in the Hatcher, Hulme and Ellis (1994) study, which has been rated internationally as one of the three most effective phonological awareness intervention studies. Since 1994, the materials have been used with a wide range of children and been found to be suitable for use with any reading-delayed child, irrespective of cognitive ability and age.
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• Spelling Smart! - a ready-to-use activities program for students with spelling difficulties, by Cynthia Stowe.
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• • Teaching Kids with Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom - Strategies and Techniques Every Teacher Can Use to Challenge and Motivate Struggling Students. Susan Winebrenner, Free Spirit Publishing, 1996. Ph. 1-800-735-7323. ISBN 157542004X
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• Phonics from A to Z: A Practical Guide - Everything you wanted to know about phonics but were afraid to ask! This practical handbook, written by an early reading specialist, will show you how to build engaging, effective phonics practice into your reading-writing program. Lots of ready-to-use lessons, word lists, games and learning center ideas (K-3). USA

• • • How to Identify and Support Children with Dyslexia - Written by an experienced Dyslexia Adviser, this practical new book offers help and advice to those providing and supporting the learning process of dyslexic children within the primary school classroom. Packed with valuable advice and ideas, Chris Neanon aims to address those questions that are most frequently asked by teachers and to build confidence. Sections include: Definitions of dyslexia, recent research and early identification issues. What is it like to be dyslexic? A child's perspective on dyslexia. Differences in learning styles How to support the dyslexic learner in the Literacy Hour Using teaching assistants most effectively Useful resources - letters for parents explaining dyslexia including suggestions of ways in which parents can support children at home. USA | UK

• Multi-sensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills - Judith R. Birsh, Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co. - 1999 ISBN 1557663491. - Dr. Judith Birsh has succeeded in bringing together the expertise of a constellation of respected and well-known contributors to produce what will undoubtedly become a highly prized and much-used text/reference book in the field of dyslexia and learning differences.
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• Making the Writing Process Work - Strategies for Composition and Self-Regulation - Describes an integrative approach to writing instruction for students with diverse abilities and backgrounds in the elementary and middle grades. USA

• • To Teach A Dyslexic - by Don McCabe - a compelling autobiography illustrating what it is like to grow up dyslexic. He was born in 1932 and this was well before "dyslexia" was a term, let alone a diagnosis. He was just treated as a boy who couldn't sit still. He credits his older sister and wonderful teachers who worked intensively with him to help him learn to read and eventually to become a respected scholar. USA

• SensAble Strategies - Provides practical, creative strategies that will help you reach all the students in your classroom. SenseAble Strategies provides teachers with sensible ideas that address learning styles in a way that will enhance students' abilities to learn.

   • Dyslexia: Integrating Theory and Practice - Snowling and Thomson, Whurr Publications (1870332474) (recommended by J.P., Iowa - 'a quite serious collection of articles by experts in the field about the biological basis of dyslexia and the practical skills of teaching dyslexic children - good stuff if you're attending a course and writing essays about the subject.')

• • • Dyslexia Games Manual - This range of 55 games will develop the auditory and visual awareness necessary to improve word-attack skills, while also providing over-learning, revision and reinforcement of vital literacy skills. The games fall into six main areas:
- Memory games - visual and auditory - recall and discrimination
- Organisational skills - sequencing, orientation and categorisation
- Key words practice
- Word building
- Story building
- Literacy skills revision
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• The Dyslexic Scholar: Helping your Child Succeed in the School System - by Kathleen Nosek. If you are looking for a book that explains dyslexia and how to cut through the red tape at school, this is the book. I finally found some answers to my questions about dyslexia and what I need to do to get my child help. Ms. Nosek's book is very parent friendly. She gives you wonderful advice in a step by step fashion. I found the most useful part of the book to be the section on the federal laws (she gives you the public law number) that the schools must obey. I finally know what my rights are! You should read this book if you are having any problems getting your child services. I think it would be useful to any parent of a child with a learning disability.(A reader from Newport Beach, California) USA | UK

• Understanding Dyslexia and the Reading Process - 'a guide for educators and parents'. For parents and educators who want to read more in-depth information about dyslexia and the process of reading. USA | UK

• Phonemic Awareness in Young Children - A Classroom Curriculum - Phonemic awareness - distinguishing the individual sounds that make up words and affect their meanings - is an essential preliteracy skill, and a hot topic in education today. This supplemental curriculum is brimming with engaging, adaptable language activities proven to increase phonemic awareness. Use them in any preschool, kindergarten, or first-grade classroom. Its developmental sequence builds on simple listening games and gradually moves on to more advanced sound manipulation exercises like rhyming, alliteration, and segmentation. USA

• Dyslexia: The Pattern of Difficulties T.R. Miles, Whurr Publishers Ltd, 2nd Edition: 1993 (recommended by D.D., Australia - 'I found this book really helpful when I first read it, and it opened my eyes to a lot of the problems of dyslexic kids.') USA | UK

• Alpha to Omega - by Beve Hornsby, pub. Heinemann. Recommended phonics manual used very widely in UK schools, listing words in their phonic groupings. 'I just wanted to say that I find "Alpha to Omega" really good to use, if not in the sense it was intended! I have a group of Y5/Y6 (Grade 5/6) students once a week for a "spelling club" and they raise the spelling difficulties they are having and we address them through using this scheme. It works as a few of them have increased their spelling ability by 12 months or more in a much shorter space of time! ' (V.L., UK). UK

• The Secret Life of the Dyslexic Child by Robert Frank - The author's own experience (he was not diagnosed until he was a graduate student) demonstrates that despite the lack of professional attention to his condition, the parental love and support he received encouraged him to transcend his problems with processing language. He provides here a number of strategies that will help parents to understand and identify with how their dyslexic child sees the world. Building self-esteem is the key to helping a dyslexic child overcome overwhelming feelings of anxiety and frustration that may occur when he or she struggles with schoolwork. Positive feedback from family and friends is crucial to building self-esteem in a dyslexic child. Included in this very helpful, accessibly written guide are many practical suggestions for working with your child's teacher to create a positive goal-oriented learning environment both at school and at home.
-- "... an excellent book for parents, teachers, tutors and anyone else interested in helping children with dyslexia succeed in their learning. I have read this book through and will reread it again. An excellent resource!" (R.R.)
-- "... insightful and well written. Definitely worth reading". (Anna K.)
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• Dyslexia and Self-Concept by Robert Burden - This book addresses the important area of dyslexic children's perception of themselves and how this is shaped by people and processes within their early school careers. It draws upon hitherto neglected psychological concepts such as self-efficacy, locus of control and learned helplessness to explain within a social-interactivist framework the powerful effect of self-perceptions on the social, emotional and academic development of dyslexics. Techniques for assessing these factors are described and research evidence is provided to demonstrate how a sense of dyslexic pride associated with positive academic outcomes can be achieved. The book is aimed at teachers, teacher-trainers, parents and academics researching developmental aspects of dyslexia, but combines scholarship and research in a manner that makes it accessible to adult dyslexics also. UK | USA.

• • • Dyslexia and Literacy edited by Gavin Reid - provides a comprehensive, practical introduction for all professionals seeking an understanding of dyslexia in children. Divided into four parts, the book firstly introduces the various theoretical perspectives and follows this up with identification and assessment techniques with an emphasis on practical, classroom related issues. The third part of the text covers topics related to the school curriculum and a final section covers issues that relate to the learning process. An invaluable text for anyone who needs to know about dyslexia in children including post-graduate students in psychology and education, SENCOs and trainee teachers. UK | USA.

• • • Dyslexia and Counselling - by Rosemary Scott, published Whurr. 'Good counselling can remediate the negative effects of dyslexia on daily life, to the point where dyslexia becomes not just manageable but 'a source of individual strength and wisdom''. UK | USA

• • • Dyslexia - a Practitioner's Handbook - by Gavin Reid, published Wiley. "How can the research in reading help me teach dyslexic children? How can I help dyslexic students learn more effectively? How can I select appropriate resources for the classroom? This comprehensive handbook answers these and many other important questions integrating research and practice in an accessible form. This practical guide will help professionals and parents to make an informed choice in the selection of materials, and provides a choice of strategies for classroom use for teachers. The text * explores and explains research in reading and learning, and promotes the use of learning styles and study skills techniques which enable dyslexic students to acquire some degree of self-sufficiency in learning * examines all aspects of practice, including a wealth of assessment techniques providing an assessment framework which teachers can implement and adapt to accommodate to their own particular teaching context * covers many learning approaches from early education to higher education * includes a review of resources in a special section which describes over a hundred different strategies, resources and books on dyslexia, and comments on how these may be used "The sections on assessment, programmes, strategies and the review of resources will be invaluable to our Learning Support team, by bringing all those together under one cover. In summary, I found the handbook practical, readable, concise and an invaluable resource." Frederika Ritherdon, Principal SEN Officer, Bolton, UK. UK | USA

• • • Dyslexia? Assessing and Reporting: the PATOSS Guide - There is now a greater need than ever before to assess, record and respond appropriately to the special needs of individuals. Specialist teachers, learning support managers - all have a statutory duty to see that individual needs are identified, from the early years to further and higher education. This book focuses on the purposes, principles and practicalities of assessing for dyslexia across successive age groups, exploring the changing assessment issues and specific assessment needs. It looks at the available types of assessments at each stage, explaining how to interpret results and how and when to involve other professionals. Throughout, special emphasis is placed upon the need to cooperate and communicate effectively with others - pupils/students, their parents, class teachers, administrators and fellow professionals - to ensure that appropriate intervention and follow-up support are forthcoming. Assessments are needed to diagnose, to plan intervention, to inform school/college policies, to support claims for funding, to justify special arrangements in examinations, and more. These very different purposes require specialist teachers and support managers to have a firm grasp of relevant legislation and professional guidelines, to select appropriate assessments and provide reports that will meet their intended purpose. Assessing for Dyslexia will enable you to achieve this! Down to earth, and with numerous examples, this book provides the practical guidance needed by specialist teachers special needs teachers and educational professionals in training, as well as by learning support staff working in schools and colleges. UK | USA.

Dyslexia Portfolio - comprises eight short tests for use with pupils in the 6-16 age-range who have already been screened as having dyslexic tendencies or whose literacy attainment is giving cause for concern that they may be dyslexic. It is the third publication in GL Assessment's dyslexia series and follows the Dyslexia Screener and Dyslexia Guidance, both co-authored by Martin Turner.
To establish dyslexic tendencies, our ten questions indicating possible dyslexia in children or in adults are well researched.
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• Spelling, Handwriting and Dyslexia: Overcoming Barriers to Learning - Diane Montgomery argues that spelling and writing need to be given more consideration in teaching and remedial settings especially if dyslexic pupils are to be helped back up to grade level, and other pupils are to make more effective, quicker progress. Helping teachers and student-teachers to understand the valuable contribution spelling and handwriting makes to literacy development in primary and secondary schools, this book shows them how to overcome existing barriers to learning. Chapters cover key topics such as: the nature of spelling and the impact of the National Literacy Strategy; the strengths and weaknesses of existing schemes for handwriting; the definitions of dyslexia and how common spelling errors by dyslexics are made; making effective links between strategic assessment and strategic interventions in schools; problem-based learning, underpinned by plenty of case-studies and real life classroom examples. Written by a well-known author in the field of literacy and dyslexia, this is a core text that will interest teachers, teacher educators, and undergraduate and postgraduate students in education and inclusion.
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• Dyslexia and Music - Maximise your pupils' music skills and their enjoyment of the subject. Non-specialists and specialists can use this book to help pupils overcome common stumbling blocks and: boost pupils' success in exams with ideas for preparation; make appropriate assessment of pupils' theoretical and practical work; teach successfully in groups and one-on-one; support pupils' learning with the right IT resources; learn from first hand descriptions of pupils' experiences in music.

• Dyslexia and Drama - Helping teachers to guarantee that dyslexic students get the most from drama inside and outside the classroom, this indispensable book covers: a straightforward explanation of dyslexia; tactics for removing problems experienced by students in drama lessons; suggestions for setting homework; ideas to boost students exam success; insights into good and bad practice with case studies.

• Dyslexia and History - Offering teachers a variety of tried and tested learning and teaching strategies, this book provides a core of good classroom practice in history and discusses the range of resources and support currently available to classroom staff. It should help make the history classroom a more interesting and successful environment for dyslexic pupils.

• Dyslexia and General Science - This work focuses upon the requirements of science specialists teaching dyslexic pupils in a primary mainstream setting. Using the book's practical learning plans, teachers should be able to improve the dyslexic child's success in and enjoyment of science.

• Dyslexia and English - The difficulties dyslexic students experience in the English mainstream classroom and present to their English teacher are examined in detail in this book. The authors show how these difficulties may best be supported and the students' strengths utilised. The book offers: discussion of the ways in which the English department and staff can prepare for dyslexic students; guidance in the context of the curriculum; suggested teaching approaches and methods of working for both National Curriculum tests and GCSE examinations; and pointers for staff development. The book looks at language, different types of literature and poetry, and highlights the use of oracy for written language. Handwriting, reading, comprehension, writing and spelling strategies are also considered.

• Phonological Skills Programme by Kathryn Dickie - meticulously planned programme teaching what a word is, segemntation, rhyming, through the early letter sounds, with a large battery of pictures to photocopy. The programme relies on a knowledge of the International Phonetic Alphabet - which many teachers may not be familiar with. It is also open to criticism on the grounds of including pictures which are not always readily meaningful to a multi-cultural audience, using words not in common usage (e.g. cloy, ploy), and requiring a very large battery of teaching equipment - wooden lolly sticks, metal washers, miniature animals and vehicles, etc. Recommended for a private tutor in the UK with a speech therpy background and a desire to thoroughly cover each small step of the initial process of learning to read and recognize letter sounds. Contact: kathrynmary@tiscali.co.uk

• Mnemonics for Irregularly Spelt Words - Mnemonics (memory aids) are used to correct some common spelling mistakes & are presented in an entertaining & motivating way. Some of the most commonly used & irregularly spelt words are included from said (sed), does (dose/duz) through to any (eny) & friend (frend). The book has amusing pictures to color and a game to make up and play.

• Strategy Instruction for Increasing Reading Comprehension - Edwin S. Ellis describes the paraphrasing strategy that has been demonstrated to increase reading comprehension skills for adolescents with learning disabilities.

• Strategy Instruction for Problem-solving Unknown Words - Edwin S. Ellis Offers several strategies for building word attack skills.

• Could Do Better - two important techniques are recommended by this helpful book: Reflective Listening and Descriptive Praise. Noel Janis-Norton's methods are aimed at restoring self-esteem, and will help re-build the confidence of any dyslexic child. The book contains practical techniques to help children achieve their true potential.
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• Aurally Coded Dictionary - The ACE spelling dictionary is the Aurally Coded dictionary – it confronts the multitude of vowel sounds by classifying words according to the first one in each. She has been under very intense pressure and extremely frustrated by her efforts to use a normal dictionary. "Using the ACE Dictionary, my 16-years old student identifies the start sound of a difficult work, then the second sound. The dictionary gives a visual support to the second sound and a page reference for the combination from a grid. She then counts the syllables, selects the list on the page, runs her finger down and is becoming increasingly proficient at identifying the word. Her motivation has increased because the exam board is now allowing her to use the ACE Dictionary in some exams. (S.D. P, Kent, UK)."
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• Dyslexia - Overview of the causes and treatment of dyslexia in children by Gavin Reid, a well respected writer in the field. "A useful text book, but too many lists to make it readable." (S.J., Cornwall, UK.)
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• Teaching Students with Dyslexia and Dysgraphia - This book for academic professionals provides key information on dyslexia and dysgraphia, as well as practical recommendations for using research in the classroom.
This book provides an overview of what recent research has added to our understanding of dyslexia and dysgraphia within the historical context of contributions from practice over the last century.
The authors provide educators and therapists with research supported, practical instructional guidelines and methods for improving the oral language, reading, and writing of students with dyslexia and dysgraphia.
The book blends science-supported conceptual frameworks with practical teaching strategies. It addresses identification of written language disabilities, interventions, specific topics such as reading and writing, and professional development.
The message that the book communicates goes beyond learning from teaching and learning from research to taking a stand that both kinds of experience contribute to evidence-based practice.
This has become very important to teachers as they're instructed to incorporate more and more research into their practices while trying to figure out how to proceed with methods that they know work from their experience. .
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• Arabic Books on Dyslexia - A useful range of magazines and books about dyslexia provided by the Kuwait Dyslexia Association.
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