If your child is struggling with the confusion of b and d letter reversals, you can use these multi-sensory activities to help them remember the difference.
Multi-sensory activities are the best kind of learning for children with learning difficulties - especially dyslexic children. This is because it gives the information to them in different ways other than just auditory or visual which might not be their strongest learning style. The more ways that you can think of to get the learning across, the better.
Our best memories are the ones where we have lots of fun and when we create something ourselves. As teachers and parents it can be hard to resist helping BUT it is so important for your child to have their own ideas, to produce their own work, to be proud of it AND to enable them to remember it. Keep this in mind when you are doing learning activities by letting your children have their own ideas and create their own fun for long lasting memories.
You can use any of the following ideas to have lots of fun creating letters and sounds.
String: Use string to make the shape of the sound with the string on the floor Paint: Paint and decorate sounds in the shape of the letter they are reversing. Tell the children to shut their eyes and do it, messy and fun!
Empty plastic bottles: Fill with water and draw the sounds with the water on the ground. Give the children some short words to spell. This is also a good activity for encouraging smooth cursive handwriting.
Glue and Glitter: Paint 'b' or 'd' sounds in glue and sprinkle with glitter.
Sandpit: Children can dip their fingers in and make letter shapes.
3D: play dough, pasta tubes, twigs, leaves etc, colourful (blue and red) pipe cleaners. Create the confused letter sounds using any of the above. Each child can make their own collage or a group of children can make a collage together. I've used wikki stix here in the photo. Colour is very helpful for dyslexics, try and always keep the b blue and the d red.
In the kitchen and garden there are lots of opportunities for making letter shapes in cooking and gardening
Give the children dot to dot b and d pictures to complete. They can draw in the lines with, crayons, paint, glue and glitter or any of the ideas mentioned above.
Draw lines on paper, hold up a picture of a 'd' or 'b' word and give the children big fat felt tips to draw the circle on the correct side of the line.
More Kinaesthetic Ideas: You can use all sorts of textured materials to cut out letters that your child is confusing. The texture will help embed the memories deeper, helping them to remember more frequently.
Like these ideas and want more? Get your free demo pack and complimentary worksheets that your child can start using right now to help with b and d confusion And for more ideas for dyslexic children, signup to my newsletter and download your complimentary Dyslexia Playbook.
Sue Kerrigan is a teacher and private tutor helping children with dyslexia and dyscalculia in the UK.
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