Science

Potential Barriers for Dyslexic Pupils:

Accessing text
Accessing key words - reading and understanding
Writing
Interactive whiteboard - glare hard to read
Copying from board
Poor working memory - problems remembering instructions; dealing with multisyllabic words
Poor organisation / planning skills
Completing tasks - an expectation of failure developing

Multisensory teaching - use visual input, auditory input and lots of activities.
Simplify text - larger font; use text boxes and/or colour to separate text; bullet points rather than sentences; labelled diagrams rather than extended text; reduced amount of information generally.
Word walls - to introduce vocabularly and key topic words.
Choose alternatives forms of recording if writing is not an objective of the task: cartoons; storyboards; posters; Powerpoint presentations; videos; dictaphones; dictation to a peer; cloze passages; worksheets on College website.
Use of Cloze pro or similar software to provide cloze passages.
Use of interactive whiteboard - break up words and move letters for spelling, adjust background (purple backgroud yellow text is popular).
Provide a copy of information if it is needed for future reference - print out from laptop if on an interactive whiteboard or photocopy.
Give instructions in small chunks and provide visual support or prompts for memory.
Prompt sheet to support step by step planning.
Pre-drawn results chart/axes for graphs (gradually reduce).
Differentiate the expected length of task. Red and green credit card size cards given out so pupils can indicate if they are OK or need help.