We were thrilled to receive a grant from the International Dyslexia Association Ontario.
With this grant we have ordered several collections of decodable readers. Decodable books and text contain words made of letter-sounds, and spelling and morphological patterns (e.g. prefixes & suffixes) that a student has been explicitly taught.
In order to make the text more readable, a small number of high-frequency words that have more difficult or unexpected spellings, such as “the,” “my,” “was” are also used. As a student learns new parts of the alphabetic code the vocabulary used in the text expands to include the newly learned “graphemes” and “morphemes.”
October is Dyslexia Awareness Month and we’re celebrating by lighting up our branches.