Mathematics and dyslexia at P level 5

At P level 5 the vocabulary develops further and terminology may cause confusion. The child may have some difficulty with organisational tasks; matching and sorting objects and solving practical problems.

You can:

• Keep all teaching methods as multisensory as possible so that the child reinforces their learning in different ways. (Multi-sensory means using more than one sense, for example seeing and feeling a shape, hearing and seeing instructions, tracing a finger or hand around the outline of something, smelling cooking ingredients being mixed and then tasting afterwards: all these are multi-sensory experiences that involve more than one sensefrom the five basic sense of seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting). Use music and rhythms to aid learning.
• To help with practical problems, break the tasks down into simple stages, and support the child through each one. Don’t move on until the child is secure in the concept.

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