Hi Carol

Attached is a newsletter containing links to dyslexia tools.

We find BBC Skillswise and Bitesize to be good web-based resources.

http://www.grammarly.com/handbook/ good explanations

http://www.echalk.co.uk/ good games, sometimes a free trial is available

"Johnny Grammar" produced by the British Council is available as an app, though aimed at ESOL learners it may be useful.

Kahoot is great for creating your own quizzes.

I’ve only looked briefly at the following ipad apps but couldn’t comment on their usefulness for learners with dyslexia.

Egrammar English tenses

Homophone

Test your English grammar from grammar express

English grammar

Practice English grammar 2

Wordblender (hard to use)

Grammar lite

These were recommended:

Find the word

Ginger spelling and grammar

Itooch

Practise English Grammar

Word Hero

Shake-a-phrase (£1.24)

Mind over monster

Not exactly what you asked for, but good for encouraging literacy. These are good for creating comic style resources and may engage students:

Storyboard that

https://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboard-creator

Example:

https://www.storyboardthat.com/userboards/cuteasbutton/a-midsummer's-night's-dream

Pixton

http://www.pixton.com/uk/

Tellagami

https://tellagami.com/

These were recommended resources from the Guardian. Haven’t tried these.

Phonemes revisions	Medium frequency words
CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words	Suffixes
Using ‘ed’ to support reading and spelling	Homonyms
Syllables	High frequency words
Spelling rules	100 most used words

Would be interested in hearing back if you find others.

Thank you

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From: A general library and information science list for news and discussion. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Carol Parker
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Subject: Online resources, apps and websites for punctuation, grammar and spelling

I've just been asked by one of the Learning Support team if I can recommend any online resources, apps, online games or websites that teach basic (key stage one and two) punctuation, spelling and grammar. For example, common rules and sentence building. However, the resources would need to be suitable for students who are 17/18 years old and often have dyslexia.

She's found that there are resources available for the level but they are visually/contextually inappropriate because they are aimed at children rather than young adults.

If you are able to suggest anything I'd really appreciate it

Thanks

Carol

Carol Parker

Learning Resources Manager

Barton Peveril College

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