Dyslexia – 5 Ideas That Really Work

Try writing a paragraph with your other hand. That's close to how a lesson full of reading and copying can feel for a dyslexic learner, and the effort can hide how much they know.

These five ideas start from strengths instead: the visualising, connection-making and communication many dyslexic learners are good at. A lotus blossom diagram gets ideas out of their head and onto the page. Still images and picture objectives take the place of written ones. A random word from the dictionary, linked back to the day's learning, rewards the sideways thinking they do well. In maths, you'll show them how to strip a word problem down to the question it's really asking.

They come from a former headteacher, and they work for the rest of your class too, so they're easy to keep using.