101 Games and Activities to Help Your Child with Dyslexia Learn to Read

An Amazon customerAn Amazon customer: Update:
I began this with a student and they absolutely love it! It’s very interactive and engaging. The student asked to do multiple pages a day (and this is a child who does not enjoy school). Can’t recommend enough!

Original review: The activities in this workbook look engaging and align with what we know about the science of reading. I think this particular workbook would greatly benefit a child when paired with a systematic phonics book called “Phonics Parhways” or the free program Treasure Hunt Reading by Prenda (a program designed especially for those with dyslexia). I don’t think this workbook, by itself would be enough for a parent working with a child after school to correct reading struggles. But the two programs I mention are either very low cost or free and when paired with this workbook, could really help a child who is struggling. All that being said, this is a really fantastic workbook & it is very evident the author has done a lot of research on the science of reading.

United States on Jul 21, 2023

AnonymousFamily: I love this program. I never knew how to teach phonemic awareness, I thought it was more complicated than it really is. This has lots of activities that are simple and easy to follow through with. Highly recommend if regular phonics isn’t sticking.

United States on Jan 03, 2023

queenpineberry: Right off the bat with lessons 1 and 2, words should have accompanied the corresponding graphics as it’s very open to interpretation what you think it’s called. For example, a picture of clouds is actually “sky.” Frustratingly, if the parent or child sees it as clouds then you have unanswered, non rhyming segments and a pause occurs which can be upsetting as these kids already feel confused or “less than.” Activity 2 repeats this frustrating issue as it has a thermometer above a man running- but the words needed are “hot” and “runner.” Also a purple circle is “dot.” Strawberry jam is actually “jar.” Parents likely need to review the lesson ahead of time so both of them don’t feel frustrated with it. It’s not pick up and go either. There are lessons that require tools. They might be basic but a parent needs to look ahead and have those on hand. We didn’t have paper clips for example and that was required for the spinner in a game.

United States on Aug 14, 2022

Mum: Can try

Singapore on Jun 08, 2022

Timothy AtkinsonTimothy Atkinson: My 8 year old granddaughter, Evan, was diagnosed with Dyslexia in kindergarten. She has struggled for 3 years to learn to read on her own. She has cried many tears because her younger brothers had already learned to read and she struggled. We bought her a Leap reading system and that helped her with sight words, but she still struggled to put the words together and read sentences, be able to write in sentences etc. When she was in the public school, she worked with a counselor and specialist. Still nothing. I found this book before Christmas and sent it to my daughter to work with her. They just started the book this week and Evan came into the kitchen this morning reading sentences and making choices to fill in the blanks with the appropriate sight words. My granddaughter didn’t even realize she was reading on her own until my daughter pointed it out. Her confidence and excitement went through the roof. My daughter said she has done 8 lessons today on her own when she realized what only a few days had done towards helping her mind figure out the appropriate order of things. I wish I could hug the author and say thank you.

United States on Apr 07, 2021

Ladypickles: I have been working through loads of different ideas to try and make things easier for my son. This book is inviting because of the colours and activities. I would say you need to read each activity first so that you know what is expected before doing it together so they don't try and get out of doing it. To anyone even looking at this review, the fact you are looking to provide additional support for a person who has Dyslexia is brilliant, this book will help. Life is tough and Dyslexia makes it so much harder - but it is only a hitch :-)

United Kingdom on Feb 06, 2021

Amazon Customer: I've been working on letters with my daughter since she was 3. Now that she is 6 1/2, I have finally googled symptoms of dyslexia and faced the reality that she appears to be not simply a "slow reader." I also ordered several books and studied the website of the International Dyslexia Association. That is where I learned the concepts of "structured literacy" and realized that I had long ago neglected "phonemic awareness" and moved past it before she was ready. The exercises in this workbook are the first thing I have found that specifically address this in a way that does not immediately frustrate her or turn her off the way a standard workbook does. (But she is often tired/stretched at the end of them, which is how I know she is learning--specifically, she is learning awareness of sounds that I didn't know I needed to teach.) Because so many of the exercises are picture-based and interactive in novel/unpredictable ways (spinning the paperclip to determine which picture to match the beginning sound of), they appeal to her curiosity and keep her interested. They are also easy to repeat when the concept still needs work. And they are short, so easy to find time to do AND they...

United States on Sep 09, 2020

Martine Mccahon: This is helpful for me understanding what tasks our 5 year old struggles with with undiagnosed auditory processing disorder and dyslexia. It gives some tasks she can try at home although I’d like to know what strategies I could apply at home , I’m not sure the book gives me this. We’re going into year one and it’s a good level for year one

United Kingdom on Aug 15, 2020

Caittie Ty: I bought this book for my grade 1 son when we began our homeschool journey. He loved it so much. After a bad experience in Kindergarten he loves learning again. He is a confident reader now. His teachers and family members have been so impressed at how far he has come in six months. Now he is reading at an advanced level independently. He is not dyslexic but the methods in this book really helped him in areas he was struggling.

Canada on May 11, 2020

KS the Dreamer: My 7-year-old has been trying to learn to read through the BRI system for some time, he gets really frustrated. He is autistic and seems to have issues processing and recalling words that he knows so I thought I would give this book a try.
While it is too early to say if it is helping him learn to read we are having a lot of fun with it.
The only problem I have, making it a 4 star instead of a 5 star, is that the spelling is American, which I didn't see in the description. To combat this I have been scanning the pages needed on my PC, and pasting a UK spelling over the American one.

United Kingdom on Apr 30, 2020