My student’s regular teacher asked me to check his spelling of the following words:
said, little, find, and must
He got the last two words correctly!
Even though he remembers the mnemonic silly ants in dresses, he was unable to use it to spell said correctly. I realised it was because he wasn’t familiar with dresses in the first place! Hence, the mnemonic wouldn’t be totally effective for him.
I know that students with dyslexia need images and sounds to help them learn better. Thank God for AI technology these days.
I immediately wrote a short story and got him to read it aloud.
I then turned my story into a video.
I even uploaded it on YouTube. #shorts, anyone?
I hoped that making the video would help him remember said because he spent some time studying the word.
I repeated the process with little. But I switched it up. I used different words so that he could practise reading them aloud.
Instead of lost, I used disappointed.
Instead of luckily, I used fortunately.
Actually, his oral reading fluency was not bad. I think he would improve his English very fast when he learns all these sight words.
I have one gripe about the AI website I used, though. It doesn’t come with audio inputs. Alas! I already used up my quota of free videos with Pictory.AI.
I need to ask if the school would grant me permission to use my training funds to subscribe to the premium version of Pictory.AI!
Homework: learn the spelling of said, little, and disappointed.