Teaching a young child to read can be quite challenging. Teaching a child with a reading disability is even more challenging. One of my students that I tutor "Greg" is dyslexic and has other reading challenges. At points while tutoring this child, I started to question my ability to make him learn. After about four months of working on basic 3 letter words using the Orton Gillingham method, I realized I had to try something different. He was making very little progress.
During this period , I told the Greg I was going to give him a spelling test. After I scheduled the spelling test by notifying his parent, I realized that this might be a challenge for him even with spelling three letter words. I decided to try rhyming. I started off by listing "at" words (like hat and rat) in the session. He was able to say the words with little hesitation. I then moved on to "ap" and "ad" words and his performance was the same. I had tried many other methods to help Greg learn words like using pictures and various visuals. Rhyming really seems do the trick with Greg. I believe this method can be translated over to other students with severe difficulties in reading. Using this rhyming method was visual with respect to the word endings. Greg was then able to apply his sounding out words strategy to say the entire word on his own. As my own motto goes, every child can learn. Sometimes it just takes a while to find out what works.
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