Overcoming Dyslexia: What Does It Take?

This webinar was originally published on August 31, 2016.

IDA is offering a free, hour-long webinar with internationally respected reading teacher andeducator, Patricia Mathes, Ph.D., during which she will:

-Explain the basic components of effective instruction
-Explain how the nature of this instruction changes with each tier of instruction
-Provide the critical information schools need to ensure that scientifically sound instruction is provided to students who struggle to read at every tier of instruction

This webinar is the second in IDA’s webinar series.

[juliashayto]

Wouldn't it be easier to teach letter sounds before letter names (as is done in Montessori classrooms)? I've seen little three-year-olds who've been taught this way who are then able to easily sound out and read tons of words. I've also seen kids who've learned letter names before sounds who have that letter-name knowledge get in the way when trying to sound out words.

[juliashayto]

Is sounding out with non-continuant sounds still harder than with continuant sounds if the child hasn't been taught to stretch each sound? I know that Dr. Diane McGuinness advises against stretching to sound out words.