Summary
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This book is about raising standards in literacy for children with dyslexia by putting the child at the centre of everything you do, focusing on wellbeing, and recognising the role that adults have to play in ensuring all children reach their potential. Concentrating on children in primary schools and early years settings the book looks at: • Early intervention • Pupil voice • Working as a team • New literacies • Child-centred identification, assessment and provision • Challenges for the inclusive school. Suitable for all those working with children with dyslexia this book contains strategies that can be easily adopted to academically and emotionally benefit the children you are working with.
Introduction
Introduction
The aims of the book
Literacy is central to the classroom, home, and local and wider community experiences of children and young people. Reading and writing are reciprocally related to children’s holistic well-being and sustained ‘well-becoming’ in terms of their social, emotional and cognitive development, academic progression and overall sense of fulfilment in life and work. In most cases, the reading and writing processes are successful, but in some cases they fail. These failures in reading and writing are usually expressed through inaccurate and dysfluent word reading and/or spelling and are commonly termed dyslexia (Breznitz, 2012). Dyslexia can be conceptualised as a developmental language disorder that manifests itself in atypical literacy development (Snowling, 2000). For the purposes of this book, the term ...
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