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Subject: A multi-sensory approach to spelling


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Justine
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Date Posted: 13:06:23 09/13/10 Mon

A dyslexic pupil I taught found learning to correctly spell the colours: red, yellow, blue, green, orange, purple, white, brown and black extremely challenging. To help the pupil succeed I approached the task in a number of ways.
• I gave him a poster I had made to place by his bed at home with a picture of children at a park, which was only drawn in grey. The children were only dressed in one colour with that colour written on their T-shirt.
• I got the pupil to type the name of each colour in lots of different fonts and print them in that correct colour.
• To grab the correct plastic letters in the right spelling order out of a basin of water.
• To fish for each letter using a card and magnet game.
• To write the name of colours in large chalks on the playground.
• To make each word out of appropriately coloured pipe cleaners.
• To complete word searches on each colour in the correct coloured felt tips.
I am thrilled to say the pupil is now able to spell all of the colours correctly.

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