Helping dyslexic dd memorise things

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Dd has only just been diagnosed with dyslexia in year 8 so we're having to take a crash course in supporting her. Her school are trying but they're battling against massively cut funding so they just don't have the resources. Does anyone have any well tried strategies for memorising stuff?

Dd had to do a spanish assessment recently, write a passage in spanish - which she did perfectly - and then memorise it and say it back for a speaking assessment.
She really struggled with the second part. Speaking to her SENCO, they said learning things off by heart is part of the GCSE which is why they practice now.

If anyone has any suggestions that have worked for them or their children I'd love to know. Thanks!

Learning off by heart isn't pat of the GCSE as such, but that is how things were done when DD1 did her GCSEs in 2015. She did French & Spanish. However I thought things were different under the new syllabus, @clary I think might be able to advise on this if willing. (Or is your DD doing iGCSE?)

For DD, she was allowed a set number of word prompts but no declined verbs.

First we made sure the content was in a logical order (which DD who has dyspraxia found hard to do by herself).
Then we learned a sentence at a time, always building up.
Prompt word often the first word, especially if something like Malheuresement or Destafortunadamente (sp for both may be wrong).
She had a copy, I had a copy.
She read it out loud. Then tried to repeat it back.
When she could repeat it back we did the second sentence.
When she could do the second sentence, we went back and did 1 and 2 together.
Then the third sentence etc.
We learned any one piece over 7-10 days.

DD2, who has dyslexia, dyspraxia and slow memory was totally hopeless at French, never really got further than je m'appelle and dropped it at the first opportunity.

(We learned new content in the evening, then revised before school next morning, then added more new content in the evening. )

Thanks for that TeenDivided. I Will try with that method for next time. I did question the point of learning things off by heart, if someone has successfully written a passage in Spanish, surely they shows understanding, and if they want to check their pronunciation they should get them to read aloud a passage.

Difficulty sometimes is literally just the time needed to help her. I leave home for work at 5am and get home at 8pm, dh leaves at 7am and gets home at 7.30pm, by the time dinner is on the table, we are all exhausted so not ideal circumstances for learning. I appreciate there are no short cuts, just struggling to make adjustments.

When DD did GCSEs, and I reiterate the syllabus has changed since, she had to prepare answers to specific questions, and then be able to answer one simple non prepared one at the end.

Of course, if someone was capable, they could just answer the questions without prep, which is why in theory you don't need to learn by heart. But everyone of course did.

Those are long working hours, it must make it hard for you.