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24.01.2022 Kirsty O’Donohue is a Multisensory Structured Language Educator and the owner and operator of Literacy Pathways. Literacy pathways creates individualised lesson...s for students who are struggling with reading, writing and spelling. In your home or her on-site classroom, Kirsty provides your children with the tools and support to encourage them to improve their literacy outcomes. Kirsty is a qualified high school teacher, with a Master in Education, specifically teaching those with learning difficulties and disabilities. In recent years, Kirsty has added to her knowledge by studying to me come a Multisensory Sensory Structured Language Educator through IMSLE, she is an associate member of the Australian Dyslexia Association.

24.01.2022 Another freebie from Phonics Books.

24.01.2022 Check out this great app to practice syllable types. https://apps.apple.com/au/app/syllable-swipe/id1493569345

24.01.2022 Dyslexia awareness month. 1st October marks the start of Dyslexia Awareness month. I will be posting daily with information about all matters associated with Dyslexia. Remember to like and share!

22.01.2022 FREE eBooks to download Did you know that over the COVID-19 lockdown Phonic Books published 10 FREE eBooks to download? These are called the 'At Home' series. ...These mini-eBooks introduce alternative spellings for 10 different vowel sounds. You can also download FREE worksheets that will help prepare your student/child to have a successful reading experience. FREE UK editions https://www.phonicbooks.co.uk//free-mini-books-for-home-s/ FREE USA editions https://www.phonicbooks.com/resou/moon-dogs-at-home-series/

22.01.2022 Debunking dyslexia myths! There's a number of common misconceptions regarding Dyslexia, here is a list of them. 1. Dyslexia is a vision problem - Primary dyslexia and learning disabilities are complex neurocognitive conditions and are not caused by vision problems. There is no evidence to suggest that eye exercises, behavioural vision therapy, or special tinted filters or lenses improve the long-term educational performance of people affected by dyslexia or other learning d...isabilities, said RANZCO President A/Prof Mark. 2. Children will outgrow Dyslexia - children will still encounter challenges throughout their life, good quality intervention can help them over come their struggles. 3. Dyslexia impacts more boys than girls - dyslexia impacts both equally, girls can be more proficient at masking their signs. 4. No Students with Dyslexia in my class - Dyslexia leads to struggles with around 1 in 5 people. 5. Dyslexia is a sign of low IQ - not at all. Dyslexia impacts a wide range of people with varying cognitive abilities.

22.01.2022 Hey Folks, if you have been to any exposure sites on the time and date mentioned, please let me know and we can arrange a zoom lesson. Stay safe!

21.01.2022 ***FREE WEBINAR FOR PARENTS*** Book your place here: https://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk//assistive-technology-and-t

21.01.2022 Another key term

20.01.2022 Teaching alternative spellings? We now have FIVE different graphics showing alternative spellings within sentences. These are for the sounds /ae/, /ee/, /oe/, /...er/ and /ow/. They are FREE to download. How to use these FREE resources? 1. Display in your classroom so that kids can see how a sound can be spelled in different ways. 2. Ask the kids to make up their own sentences and illustrate their sentences. 3. Give your students a black and white version so that they need to find the spellings themselves. 4. Make a chart with the different spellings and collect words with the different spellings. Highlight the spellings within each word. 5. Have a class competition in groups: which group can make the silliest sentence using each spelling. Vote on it in class! UK versions https://www.phonicbooks.co.uk//one-sound-different-spelli/ USA versions https://www.phonicbooks.com//one-sound-different-spelling/ #funphonics #phonics #vowelteams #voweldigraphs

19.01.2022 Indicators that point towards Dyslexia 1. Late to talk 2. Struggle to learn letters of the alphabet 3. Difficulty connecting sounds to letters... 4. Struggle with rhyming tasks 5. Inconsistent while carrying out reading, writing and spelling activities. 6. Grade 3/4 slump - reading and writing tasks include words that are becoming increasingly difficult and the student starts to feel overwhelmed when they have previously managed to hold it together. 7. Trouble remembering things like days of the week, directions, sight words and facts. See more

18.01.2022 Some great tips on how to sit during a zoom lesson.

18.01.2022 We made it to the end of term 3 folks! Thank you to all of the wonderful parents that ensured their children continued to have access to their MSL Education online. I cannot wait to see all of my wonderful students face to face in term 4. I have missed you all!!

17.01.2022 The last freebie from Phonics Books.

15.01.2022 A little bit about me! Kirsty O’Donohue is a Multisensory Structured Language Educator and the owner and operator of Literacy Pathways. Literacy pathways creates individualised lessons for students who are struggling with reading, writing and spelling. In your home or her on-site classroom, Kirsty provides your children with the tools and support to encourage them to improve their literacy outcomes. Kirsty is a qualified high school teacher, with a Master in Education, specifically teaching those with learning difficulties and disabilities. In recent years, Kirsty has added to her knowledge by studying to me come a Multisensory Sensory Structured Language Educator through IMSLE, she is an associate member of the Australian Dyslexia Association.

15.01.2022 Do you know your phoneme from your grapheme from your morpheme? Here is quick explanation. This may be a helpful poster for parents and carers helping their kids learn to read.

14.01.2022 We are proud to announce the launch of our new campaign, ‘Read My Frustration’, which highlights the frustration born from a lack of understanding about dyslexi...a. With greater knowledge, together we can help children and adults alike realise their full potential as the smart, capable and confident people they truly are. For more information, click here https://codereadnetwork.org/

13.01.2022 Some key terms used in literacy: Decoding - relationship between spoken and written word. Reading Rockets outlines decoding as the ability to apply your knowledge of letter-sound relationships, including knowledge of letter patterns, to correctly pronounce written words. Encoding - spelling, putting the known sounds into the written code.

11.01.2022 Research consistently finds that poor phonological awareness skills are one of the main causes of poor reading. Phonological awareness difficulties are genetic in their origin. The good news is, with lots of opportunities to improve phonological awareness, the skills of the student can improve considerably. Phonological awareness is the umbrella term that includes the skills outlined in the diagram.

11.01.2022 October is Dyslexia Awareness month-world wide. Dyslexia Awareness is every day for the ADA! Feel free to share your stories and questions :)

09.01.2022 Study day! Quick reminder that there will be no lessons today. See you next week.

08.01.2022 New books arrived today! Just in time for some school holidays reading.

08.01.2022 MSL is the Australian adapted version of the Orton Gillingham approach. Multisensory teaching is one important aspect of instruction for dyslexic students that is used by clinically trained teachers. Effective instruction for students with dyslexia is also explicit, direct, cumulative, intensive, and focused on the structure of language. Multisensory learning involves the use of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic-tactile pathways simultaneously to enhance memory and learning of written language. Links are consistently made between the visual (language we see), auditory (language we hear), and kinesthetic-tactile (language symbols we feel) pathways in learning to read and spell. (International Dyslexia Association, Just the facts)

08.01.2022 FREE decodable eBooks! To all our USA followers - we are delighted to announce that all 10 of our 'At Home' decodable series are now FREE to download! Phonics... is slightly different in UK and USA English so we have two editions. USA editions https://www.phonicbooks.com/resou/moon-dogs-at-home-series/ UK editions https://www.phonicbooks.co.uk//free-mini-books-for-home-s/

07.01.2022 FREE alphabet cards Are you teaching your child the sounds of the alphabet? Download our free alphabet cards. ... https://www.phonicbooks.co.uk//free-teaching-r/snap-cards/ Don't forget to watch the video about how to pronounce the letters of the alphabet with the correct pronunciation. https://www.youtube.com/watch And here are ideas of games you can play with the cards https://www.youtube.com/watch

07.01.2022 We are back! Face to face lessons will resume tomorrow morning - Thursday Feb 18th. See you then!

05.01.2022 You are like and eagle and you are going to soar. Jackie French https://9now.nine.com.au//cceb4d2d-1eb9-4f83-a218-9769d310

05.01.2022 The MA Rooney Foundation outlines, the Orton Gillingham Approach always focuses on the individual students learning needs. Students with dyslexia need to master the same basic knowledge and it’s relationship to the writing system. However, because of their dyslexia, they need more help than most people in sorting, recognising, and organising the raw materials of language for thinking and use. Language elements must be taught directly and systematically.

05.01.2022 3-cueing vs decoding As teachers we want to help our students succeed. We instinctively offer them different routes and tools to learning. After all, children... are different so why shouldn't we offer them different routes to reading? What is the 3-cueing method? This method teaches the child to look for different cues on the page to figure out what a word could be. They are asked to search the picture, try the context and possibly the first letter of the word. 3-cueing is a guessing game. Did you know that when we teach kids to use different cues to read a word we are actually teaching the methods that poor readers use? Why is this? Good readers are efficient decoders. They focus on the print and translate the symbols on the page to sounds and words. They learn to do this rapidly and this develops into automatic word recognition. This allows the reader to focus on the meaning of the text. Poor readers scoot around the page trying to guess from picture, context and possibly a bit of phonics what the word might be. It is 'rug', 'mat', or 'carpet'? This is inefficient, inaccurate and leads to reading failure. If we don't teach our kids failing strategies in writing, maths, sports or art, why would we teach them to be poor readers? What's more teaching children to decode is consistent with our phonics teaching. As teachers we want our students to succeed and so we need to help them focus on the one successful strategy for reading - decoding. This decodable book is from our Dandelion Readers Level 1 series that introduces vowel digraphs. UK edition https://www.phonicbooks.co.uk//dandelion-readers-level-1-/ USA edition https://www.phonicbooks.com//dandelion-readers-vowel-spel/ #phonicsbooks #decoding #phonicsforkids

03.01.2022 Let's kick off Dyslexia Awareness months by starting to look at what Dyslexia is. In her book Speech to Print, Louisa Moats outlines Dyslexia as A developmental reading disorder whose primary symptoms are poor word recognition and spelling.. The word dyslexia comes from the Greek dys, meaning difficult and lex meaning word. ... Dyslexia is word problems. It originates in the brain and is a continuum, no 2 learners are the same. It impacts all areas that are language based; reading, writing, spelling, speaking. See more

03.01.2022 FREE decodable eBook to download! We are delighted to announce that our new FREE eBook is now available to download. This book is the 6th in from our 'At Home'... series. It introduces alternative spellings for the sound /oo/. There are also worksheets and games FREE to download to help practice and consolidate these spellings. There are two versions - a UK and a USA version. Yes, we do pronounce our vowels differently so our phonics is not exactly the same. Please share with teachers, tutors, parents and carers who are teaching kids to read at home. https://www.phonicbooks.co.uk/advi/free-teaching-resources/

03.01.2022 Mr Literacy Pathways has done an excellent job of setting up the new office space! I looking forward to catching up with all of my lovely students from Thursday - only 2 more sleeps.

02.01.2022 Here we go again! All lessons on 15th, 16th & 17th Feb will take place via zoom. Hopefully back to face to face learning on Thursday morning. Stay safe folks!