Useful links for teachers and adults

Resources:

• • Look at the Learning Support options on the home page of Te Kete Ipurangi
  • Universal Design for Learning from TKI shows you how to plan efficiently to be sure to cover everyone’s learning needs.
  • Everyone’s in is an inclusive planning tool from TKI
  • Responding to Individual Needs gives a detailed description to identify and meet your student’s special literacy needs.
  • The Myth of the Average explains why it is necessary to plan for a variety of learners.
• Special Assessment Conditions from NZQA covers everything you need to know about using special assessment conditions.
•  Science of Reading: how the brain learns to read. 
• Great starts for regular teachers: (both were sent free to schools early 2020) firstly The New Zealand Dyslexia Handbook Tom Nicholson and Susan Dymock. NZCER Press 2015    Also About Dyslexia: Supporting literacy in the classroom. MOE Wellington 2020.

• Dyscalculia – a good explanation of how the brain counts.

• The Sounds of New Zealand English. Watch the video that demonstrates NZ sounds! A video from spelfabet.com.au clearly demonstrates the 44 phonemes.
  

• Breakfast show television interview with  John Campbell: ‘How can our literacy learning improve?’ interview with Lifting Literacy chairperson Alice Wilson and Kaiapoi Primary School principal Jason Miles. 3 August 2021.

• Tips for reading if you are an adult with dyslexia. 

• An article from the International Dyslexia Association: Structured Literacy: Effective Instruction for Students with Dyslexia and Related Reading Difficulties.
  

• A study looking at the factors believed to influence Maori student literacy learning: Smallbone, Catherine. SpLD- Silent Learning Difficulties? Factors influencing literacy learning of Maori students, as identified by teachers, SENCo, and parents. A thesis submitted to Victoria University, Wellington, 2019. The study investigates the possibility of SpLD being overlooked in favour of socio-cultural understandings of low literacy achievement among Maori students.

• Dyslexia: Beautiful Minds – a film by Square Pegs tells the real stories of real people (adults, teenagers and children) with dyslexia.

•  Choosing a reading program for schools.  Why you need cumulative, instructive, sequential phonics. Another excellent video from Bill Hansbury, Education Consultant, Australia.

• Inside a dyslexia evaluation. What types of tests are in a dyslexia evaluation? How is dyslexia diagnosed? Get an inside look as Matthew M. Cruger, PhD, a clinical psychologist and senior director of the Learning and Development Center at the Child Mind Institute, evaluates a child for learning and thinking.

• The best way to support children with specific learning difficulties: dyslexia and dysgraphia. 

• Bill Hansbury gives an excellent description of teaching Third Wave students in a school. – especially older students.

• Explicit handwriting lessons are essential daily to improve literacy. Michael Johnston discusses improving our children’s reading and writing with Belinda Blick and Dr Helen Walls.

• Seven hidden traits of adult dyslexia.

• Watch “Bill’s Rant on Dyslexia and Reading Programs”. Bill Hansbury again! “Dyslexia is a language-based disorder. It’s a problem getting to the sounds in words. Dyslexia is not a visual problem”