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Copying words from a text

Author:
Ruth McGurk

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Date Posted: 21:51:13 06/21/10 Mon

I teach a highly dyslexic 8 year old who struggles to get anything down on paper so for him we have 'moved the goal posts' His peers have a text with 5 questions to answer whereas his task is to answer 2 questions in the same time.He is given a highlighter to mark those words he needs to copy correctly from the text and then crosses them out with a pen when he has used that word in his answer. In the last 2 months there has been a marked improvement in the content and legibility of his written work. He knows exactly what is expected of him and receives equal praise for his achievements. We now use the highlighter method for all those dyslexic children who find it very difficult to copy words correctly, with great results!

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