- Read with your child.
- Select materials on your child’s independent reading level.
- Check out books on tape from your local library.
- Read books and articles on the Internet about dyslexia so you can become informed.
- Establish a regular routine and place for homework.
- Break tasks into small parts so your child can accomplish one thing at a time and do them in the correct sequence.
- Have your child repeat instructions back to you so you know they were listening and understand the task.
- Stay in touch with your child’s teachers.
- Talk about the meaning of new words to help develop a strong vocabulary.
- Build on what your child knows well and show him/her new concepts as needed.
- Repetition is often needed to make concepts and words fluent.
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