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Dyslexia tips for improving expression

General tips for improving expression 

  • Model how the text should be read – using an appropriate tone, pace and volume
  • Make the teaching of expression and your use of it explicit
  • Provide opportunities for hearing authors reading their own work
  • Emphasise that punctuation is intended to help the reader understand where the expression should come
  • Encourage pupils to identify the phases in a piece of text
  • Let children listen to audio books
  • Use a variety of texts to promote different feelings
  • Engage in reading theatres so the children have regular opportunities to read aloud
  • If a child does not want to read aloud encourage them to sub-vocalise along with the other pupils
  • Use paired reading in Key stage 2 and above to improve the flow of the reading – do not let a pupil struggle with decoding as they will lose all sense of what is being read.

 

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