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Teach dyslexics to read and write with coloured phonics
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Teach dyslexics to read and write with coloured phonics

Understand and learn the principles of effective reading and writing interventions using English coloured phonics
Created byRosa Suarez
Last updated 9/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Multisensory techniques to help dyslexic students to read more fluently
  • Develop a repertoire of techniques to improve reading fluency and comprehension
  • The sound-spelling relations in English.
  • The articulation of the English phonemes
  • Multisensory techniques to improve writing
  • Multisensory techniques to help students to learn the spellings and sounds of English.

Course content

15 sections57 lectures4h 18m total length
  • The Simple View of Reading (the only purely theoretical section in this course!)3:48
  • Overview of most commonly used literacy programs and interventions (UK-based)9:38
  • How we encode (AKA 'learn to write words')5:59
  • How we decode (AKA 'learn to read words')7:52
  • Decoding difficulties and the two reading routes4:18

Requirements

  • Interest or experience in working with students with literacy difficulties

Description

Are you working with a child who struggles to read? Does your student read too slowly, or with too many mistakes? Do you find the relationship between sounds and spellings in English confusing? If you do, you are not alone!


If English is not your native language, or if you have not learned English using a phonics-based method, this course will  help you to have a much clear and useful view of the links between sounds and spellings in English. Even if you are a native speaker, you may have never reflected on how phonics work and you find yourself sounding out graphemes (letters or strings of letters) in order to explain them to a learner.


The course is delivered in a friendly manner, and you will feel that you are in a class with me practising some basic techniques to clarify how the sound-spelling system works. The techniques include evidence-based techniques from the Orto-Gillingham approach, one of the most widespread systems for reading remediation.


As most students with reading accuracy difficulties will also develop reading comprehension difficulties, I have added a section on reading comprehension, with downloadable materials to use as help sheets while working with a student.


This course will benefit teachers, parents and assistants working with children who have not managed to read and write words accurately. It will enable learners taking the course to develop a clear inner representation of the English phonological system, which in turn will allow you to better help your student. There are also additional resources to practice the most difficult consonant spelling patterns and all of the vowels and dyphthongs in English, with a step-by-step multisensory routine. You can also use the routine for other texts you have access to or want to use in your intervention.



Who this course is for:

  • Teachers
  • Reading tutors
  • Teaching assistants
  • Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
  • Classroom aides
  • Parents or carers of children with literacy difficulties
  • The meaning of key terminology: decoding, fluency, comprehension, phonics, grapheme.