According to Berninger & Wolf (2016), the following items are areas of focus for instruction and teaching spelling when working with students with dyslexia that can be taught in the classroom and reinforced at home:
Teach phonological awareness (the ability to identify and manipulate units of sound in oral language)
Teach orthographic awareness (the ability to transfer words from spoken to written form)
Teach morphological awareness (the ability to break words down into smaller units)
Teach these different types of linguistic awareness sequentially and systematically, based on the order of development
Explicitly teach multiple, developmentally-appropriate strategies that demonstrate the correlations between phonology, orthography, and morphology
Teach spelling in English as part of an explicit and systematic method
Remember that it IS POSSIBLE for students with reading and spelling difficulties to learn to read and spell!
Reference:
Berninger, V. W., & Wolf, B. J. (2016). Dyslexia, dysgraphia, OWL LD, and dyscalculia: Lessons from science and teaching (2nd ed.). Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., Inc.
A multisensory activity utilized in the Barton Reading Program is utilizing colored letter tiles. For this activity, have a set of alphabetic letters with vowels as one color and consonants in a different color. Then, have students practice spelling words by moving the letters on a magnetic surface.
There are a number methods to helping students remember how to spell different words. View the video below to see how one parent helps her child with dyslexia remember the spelling of different words.