Helping my ds (4. Almost 5) with reading

[pinkyp]

My ds really struggles with reading and writing, school have arranged to have him assess by senco to see if he needs one to one. I've been thinking of easy fun ways to help him learn. Today I cut out the words he got given to learn and blue tacked them to the wall and player a game where he had to find the words etc. he seemed to really enjoy this and has learnt most of the words (previously spent all week trying to read them /get him to read them back without success).
Does anyone have any other tips to help ds learn how to read from books (can't read anything) and some game to help him write? He can count to 30 and seems to enjoy numbers.

Try doing a google search on "teaching methods for dyslexic children" or "multi sensory learning". There are lots of different things to try such as using clay and different colour letters and paper. There are also programmes such as Toe by Toe, Word Shark, Alpha to Omega. You could try "dot to dot" to help with the writing. It can be a long hard slog. My son's dyslexia mostly affects his writing and at 11 it's still difficult for him. I think that using a computer will be the way forward for him so the earlier they get started with keyboarding skills the better. Do you have a local Dyslexia Association? They may be able to give you advice and may offer testing and classes.

I recommend Debbie Hepplewhite's Early Reading programme -first unit is free and read the guidance booklet too- lots of good advice from one of the UK's top early reading experts:

Debbie Hepplewhite's online synthetic phonics programme.
Programme guidance booklet: www.phonicsinternational.com/guidance_book.pdf

Early Years Starter Package; Young-child resources for children aged 3-5, for pre-school settings and parents who want to make an early start with synthetic phonics: www.phonicsinternational.com/Early-Years-Starter-Pack-Intro.html

Teeny Reading Seeds www.phonicsinternational.com/trs.html FREE resources for approximately 3-4 yr.olds as they begin to make links between speech sounds and the 26 alphabet letters - both upper and lower case: can be used with the DfE programme Letters & Sounds Phase One

I'm not sure if this is helpful or not but ds couldn't read in reception due to hearing difficulty (so just didn't understand phonics - he couldn't hear half of them) once he had grommets we bought him aLeapfrog Tag I'm not saying that it will teach him to read but it did help give my ds a love for books and he could access it himself, they do a phonics set of books.

I'm dyslexic and couldn't read until I was 6 or 7, even now its not great - the one thing my Mum and Dad worked on was just enjoying books together, reading to me every night to improve my vocab without me having to read (they read at night to me until I was about 13 ) I also enjoyed audio books (still do). I also learnt to read via 'look and say' (memory) not phonics... phonics doesn't suit everyone but it is the method of teaching now.

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Thank u all for the advice, ds has a leappad with books on it (not sure if it's like the tag?). He can say the letter sounds. Ur can't connect the sounds etc.

Is he being sent a list of words to learn to read at home pinkyp?
How is he being taught in school?
Are they sending books home?
sorry lots of questions

I agree glue ear is a very common problem at this age