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Subject: Self confidence Technique for Homework

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Jane Cook (Helpful)

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Date Posted: 16:58:20 01/12/11 Wed

I have just completed assignment 4 and have learnt so much on all aspects of a child/teenager with dyslexia. I would like to share a Technique I have used with my 11year old dyslexic son with his homework.
My son's homework this week was to present an independent reading report on a novel they have been reading. The requirements were as followed.
2-4 minute speech to the class
Title of writing
Genre of writing
Interesting information
Recommendations
He was to be assessed by the teacher and one peer of the class.
My son's confidence to do this was very low as the question to me was how am I going to do this with all the class focus on me?
My son is confident on the Lap-top but not with the written work. We decided to do a Power point presentation on all of the above requirements. My son created the power point presentation with colour,detail and excitement it was terrific. My son stood in front of the class reading from the screen holding his novel in one hand and full of confidence. His classmates were impressed with the power point and wished that they did theirs this way. I would recommend other children to present work this way. The self-confidence and joy of actually impressing the teacher and class meant everything and coming home with a 26 out of 30 for his grade was something to talk about.

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