TRT Podcast #85: Getting help for dyslexia: A conversation with Gina from Get Literacy
Today you’ll hear from Gina, who shares both knowledge and laughs on her Instagram account, get_literacy. Not only will you hear how Gina is implementing the science of reading in her first grade classroom, you’ll discover how she found help for her daughter with dyslexia. So much goodness in this episode!
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Full episode transcript
Find Gina here
- get_literacy on Instagram
Recommended resources
- Dyslexia Advocate! by Kelli Sandman-Hurley
- Overcoming Dyslexia, by Sally Shaywitz
- Reading for Life, by Lyn Stone
- Shifting the Balance, by Jan Burkins & Kari Yates
- Uncovering the Logic of English, by Denise Eide
- The ABC’s and All Their Tricks, by Margaret M. Bishop
- Speech to Print, by Louisa Moats
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Gillian
What a fantastic talk. I trained in the late 70s and we did phonics but it was late God-mother who gave me a progression list of graphemes,digraphs etc and a super Principal, trained in the same province as my God-mother who sent me on the explicit teaching route, arming kids with ways to decode and spell. I am having tremendous fun listening to all you have to say and I am enjoying finding out more and more.Thank you!
Anna Geiger
I’m so glad to hear that you were doing things the right way when whole language was just getting started! Thank you so much for your comment and for tuning in, Gillian!
Denise Lang
An excellent presentation which offers hope for parents of dyslexic children. I did find the change within a year of the Grade 6 daughter a miracle. Would love to know how often each week she saw the OG tutor to achieve those results
Gina
Hi Denise!
Thank you so much for you comment. She saw the tutor once a week for an hour plus the supports put in place at her school. ♥️ One of her sixth grade teachers came up to me at graduation and said how she is a completely different student than she was in sixth grade.
-Gina Sandrzyk