I once had a call from a TRT trained teacher who told me it was going well, but the boys were getting through all of the TRT Levels without making much improvement in their reading. That’s not the most thrilling news I’d ever heard so thought I’d see if the problem was with TRT or with the way it was being delivered.
The tendency to reverse b and d is a huge embarrassment for older students who struggle to get the mirror image letters straight. On dyslexia discussion boards, the question keeps coming up, ‘How do we help our dyslexic students stop reversing b and d?’
A TRT tutor emailed with the following: “I have been working with _______ who is ______ years old.
(fill in your own student name and age) I think he has been through several literacy programs, each with their own instructional methods.”
Is anyone really unteachable? This young man, 25 years old, who came to us because his grandmother heard someone talking about That Reading Thing.
Ghoti spells Fish. This thing still shows up on social media and still makes me sigh heavily for two reasons.
Greg Brooks’ What Works for children and young people with literacy difficulties, 2016.