Videos

• Screen Writer Max Brooks
• First Grade Syllabication
• English Decoded  The Job of "Y"
• How a Dyslexic Brain Works

Android Apps

• Montessori Words and Phonics
• Letter Quiz-full version

Websites

• Everyone Reading (Illinois branch of the International Dyslexia Association)
• International Dyslexia Association
• National Center for Learning Disabilities
• The Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity
• Great Websites for Kids

Books

• The Gift of Dyslexia
• The Dyslexia Checklist
• The Dyslexic Advantage
• Overcoming Dyslexia

Definitions of common terms

• Decoding:  Recognizing unfamiliar words by sequentially segmenting the sounds represented by the letters of the word and then blending the sounds into meaningful syllables or the whole word.
• Encoding:  In spelling, the segmenting of sounds of a word, then translating each phoneme into its corresponding letter (s) and then the spelling of the word.
• Grapheme:  The letter or letters that represent the speech sound (phoneme)
• Morpheme:  The smallest unit of meaning in a word – affixes, a single word, or word root
• Orthography:  Writing system of a spoken language.
• Phoneme:  Smallest unit of speech.
• Phonetics:  Study of speech sounds.
• Phonemic segmentation:  sequential isolating of speech sounds.
• Phonics:  A teaching method which attends to letter-sound correspondences.
• Phonology:  The sound system of a language, including the rules for their combination and pronunciation.
• Semantics:  The study of the linguistic meaning of language.
• Syntax:  The rules of sentence formation.