Backwards Alphabet

Contrary to what this blog might lead you to believe, we've been busy here at Peregrin House. Of note, we began using some new reading strategies to help Mane with her reading struggles! Among the exercise: Learning the alphabet backwards:



Mane made the alphabet backwards and forwards out of clay, upper and lower case, and she practiced saying the alphabet backwards for 3 days until she had it! This is to help her stop singing the alphabet and think of each letter as in individual entity. It is also to give her hands-on interaction with letters, something Mane has always needed as a kinesthetic learner.

After playing with clay for several days, Mane decided that reading lessons are a whole lot of fun! I'm hoping that decreasing the pressure surrounding reading and giving her some new "hooks to hang things on" will free her to read more easily.

Next step: Spell-Reading. Mane will be spelling words before she reads them, also in an effort to help her see letters individually and to slow down when she doesn't know a word.

I'll keep ya'll posted!