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Product reviews for The Little Book of Dyslexia
Amanda Dickson, Head of Primary, Academia Británica, Cuscatleca, Santa Tecla, El Salvador
The Little Book of Dyslexia is unique, and particularly helpful to teachers, in that it is written by Joe Beech who is dyslexic himself and who is currently engaged in a teacher training course. Thus, throughout the book, Joe is able to help us to see daily classroom life from different perspectives - those of the pupil and of the teacher.
The author talks us through his primary, secondary and higher education years and through his eyes we are better able to appreciate the academic and psychological frustrations that are endured by students with dyslexia - the often long wait for assessment, feeling different from your peers, struggling with organisation, the lack of engagement in learning which doesn't seem to have much relevance for the 21st century and which is heavily reliant on pencil and paper, and the narrow focus on exam results. It struck me as I was reading this book that many of these issues apply to many pupils in our schools, not only those with dyslexia.
There is a very useful chapter in the book relating to technology and how various devices, programmes and apps can help pupils and teachers with the planning, researching, organisation, learning and presentation of tasks, assignments and lesson plans.
Throughout the book Joe makes practical and easily applicable suggestions as to how the education process and the classroom can be adapted to allow dyslexic children to experience success. Again, I felt that this was good, practical advice which would improve the learning and teaching taking place in all classrooms and would encourage teachers to consider implementing some of these changes.
I will certainly be sharing this book with the learning support team at my school. It is a very readable book written from a very personal perspective and assists us to be more empathetic with children in our own school who may have similar learning difficulties but who are unable to describe these as eloquently as Joe Beech has done in his book. I will also be advising class teachers to read The Little Book of Dyslexia which will, perhaps, help them to identify pupils who may need additional help or different strategies to cope with their learning and which will certainly give them some very practical ideas to adapt their classrooms to meet the needs of all pupils.
The author talks us through his primary, secondary and higher education years and through his eyes we are better able to appreciate the academic and psychological frustrations that are endured by students with dyslexia - the often long wait for assessment, feeling different from your peers, struggling with organisation, the lack of engagement in learning which doesn't seem to have much relevance for the 21st century and which is heavily reliant on pencil and paper, and the narrow focus on exam results. It struck me as I was reading this book that many of these issues apply to many pupils in our schools, not only those with dyslexia.
There is a very useful chapter in the book relating to technology and how various devices, programmes and apps can help pupils and teachers with the planning, researching, organisation, learning and presentation of tasks, assignments and lesson plans.
Throughout the book Joe makes practical and easily applicable suggestions as to how the education process and the classroom can be adapted to allow dyslexic children to experience success. Again, I felt that this was good, practical advice which would improve the learning and teaching taking place in all classrooms and would encourage teachers to consider implementing some of these changes.
I will certainly be sharing this book with the learning support team at my school. It is a very readable book written from a very personal perspective and assists us to be more empathetic with children in our own school who may have similar learning difficulties but who are unable to describe these as eloquently as Joe Beech has done in his book. I will also be advising class teachers to read The Little Book of Dyslexia which will, perhaps, help them to identify pupils who may need additional help or different strategies to cope with their learning and which will certainly give them some very practical ideas to adapt their classrooms to meet the needs of all pupils.
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18/07/2013 01:00
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