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Dyslexia Solutions

• Have your students watch the Karate Kid video and answer the following questions. Feel free to cut and paste the questions so you can use them in a Word doc.

Karate Kid Questions
1. What were some of the exercises his teacher had him do?
2. Was he excited about all of them?
3. Did they help him learn karate?
4. Was it obvious how the exercises would help him learn karate?
5. Was it easy for the student to be patient?
6. Did the exercises pay off? How?

• Let your students read and spell with easy to manipulate phonics tiles. You can use them to distinguish motor output problems from spelling problems and to provide appropriate accommodations for spelling tasks.

• Ask your student choice questions if they cannot answer open ended ones.  Make sure that the choices are neither too easy or too complicated.  Short choices are the best.
  

• Take a simple task (saying the ABC's) and add other simple tasks (hopping or tossing a beanbag) while performing the original simple task.  This will cause your student to multi-task and concentrate simultaneously.

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