All staff will:
• Enable students to use a word processor to complete some written tasks. These highlight spelling errors and offers alternatives. If they cannot type, encourage them to learn so that they can use a Word Processor with more speed and fluency. www.typing.com would be a useful homework task for fluency of typing skills.
• Provide regular starter and/or plenary retrieval quiz to support memory and retention.
• Provide access to audio versions of the curriculum, eg Literacy books.
• Enable access to dictation and read aloud in MS word for note taking, lesson asks and homework.
• Provide coloured paper for handouts. Exercise books with coloured pages.
• Provide coloured overlays as required.
• Use Dyslexia friendly fonts, spacing and size.
• Enable access to a laptop.
• Use closed questions to rehearse or recall.
• Use open questions to consolidate and generalise learning.
• Ensure regular rest breaks to reduce visual stress.
• Present written information with clear non-cursive writing.