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Teaching Literacy to Learners with Dyslexia
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Updated Edition of Bestseller

Teaching Literacy to Learners with Dyslexia
A Multisensory Approach

Fourth Edition


March 2025 | 536 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

This bestselling book for teaching literacy to children and young people aged 4-16 years with dyslexia and other specific literacy difficulties has been fully updated for its fourth edition.

Providing a structured multisensory programme, ‘Conquering Literacy’, that includes placement tests, well-established strategies and examples of lesson planning, teaching activities, and reading, spelling and literacy concept cards, this book is an essential practical resource for teachers.

This new edition includes:

·       51 new activities (online) to support the delivery of the Accelerated Programme.

·       A new chapter on co-occurring difficulties and the implications for teaching literacy using Conquering  Literacy.

·       Additional examples and case studies.

·       New resources within the book itself, to support the teacher in delivering the lessons.

A variety of structured reading materials to develop reading comprehension for students working at Stage 2 of the programme 

 
 
Part I: Teaching learners with dyslexia: Theory and context
 
Chapter 1: What is dyslexia?
 
Chapter 2: Dyslexia and co-occurring difficulties: Implications for teaching literacy to learners with dyslexia
 
Chapter 3: The role of memory in acquiring literacy skills
 
Chapter 4: Phonology, phonological awareness and literacy
 
Chapter 5: Reading, spelling and dyslexia: Theory and research
 
Chapter 6: Dyslexia and learners for whom English is an additional language
 
Part II: Teaching literacy to learners with dyslexic-type difficulties
 
Chapter 7: Strategies for reading
 
Chapter 8: Strategies for spelling
 
Chapter 9: Strategies for writing
 
Part III: Conquering literacy: A multisensory programme for teaching learners with dyslexia
 
Chapter 10: Principles, teaching methods and programme structure
 
Chapter 11: Lesson planning
 
Chapter 12: Alphabet knowledge and skills
 
Chapter 13: The role of memory in the programme
 
Chapter 14: Introducing the new teaching point in a lesson
 
Part IV: Conquering literacy: A multisensory programme
 
Part IV: Appendix A: Ideas for working with young children
 
PART IV: Appendix B: Teaching the programme to groups
 
PART V: The accelerated programme and beyond
 
Part VI: Downloadable resources

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