If you have a child who has been diagnosed with dyslexia or struggles with reading, you might be looking for a proven program to help them improve their reading and spelling skills. Members of the Homeschool Review Crew have recently been reviewing Dyslexia Gold. For this review, they received the Dyslexia Gold Full Bundle. This bundle includes all four parts of the Dyslexia Gold program: Engaging Eyes, Fluency Builder, Spelling Tutor and Times Table Tutor. Dyslexia Gold is not considered a total reading program but is designed for students who have been taught to read but are still struggling.
Engaging Eyes utilizes games to students focus both eyes on the same point and track across the page. These games include: Target Practice, Eye Tracking, and Whack an Alien. Vision training games help the students show marked improvement with fun games in just ten minutes per day.
Target shooting with the 3D glasses is one of Rebekah’s favorite parts of Dyslexia Gold. She says it’s fun to play and she likes the audios that go with it.
Fluency Builder is designed to improve reading speed, accuracy and comprehension by being used for as little as ten minutes per day. The activities in Fluency Builder help develop phonological awareness, rapid automatic naming, phoneme manipulation, segmenting, auditory discrimination and morpheme mapping.
Also you can choose whether to have an English or American accent in Fluency Builder. Click on the student’s name in the upper right hand corner, then click on settings to select the appropriate accent.
The student then listens carefully to determine which sound is being said. They then drag the blue sound button to the correct sound.
With Spelling Tutor, students see significant progress in their spelling ability in a short amount of time. They are taught to spell 1000 of the most common words by dictation. The process of writing the words helps the student to learn the spell much quicker than other methods. The kids are given all the time they need to gather their pencil and paper. Once they have their supplies, they click next.
On the paper, the student writes the sentence they hear dictated. The sentences all come from the reading passage that the student has already read. When they have finished writing, they click “Mark.”
Notice that the words that are marked as correct turn green, those words or punctuation that are incorrect are highlighted in red.
Spelling Tutor has significantly helped Eli and Rebekah become better at their spelling!
Times Table Tutor is based on Singapore maths which teaches math in three steps; concrete, pictorial and abstract. Students work 10 minutes per day with the engaging lessons which keep building until they have learned 12×12
Dyslexia Gold has been shown to show marked improvement in students who struggle with reading. Children who are between 7 and 11 years of age and are at least a year behind, showed an average of 12 months of reading improvement by using the program for ten hours (an average of 10 minutes per day for thirty days)
How Have we used Dyslexia Gold?
Several months ago, I first heard about Dyslexia Gold. It looked like a program that several of my kids could really benefit from but I didn’t want to spend money on something if it wasn’t going to be a good fit. So I decided to pay for one membership for Eli. His improvement was very easy to see. He was enjoying the games and was really becoming a much better reader. I decided it would be a good fit for some of the others but it never quite seemed to fit in the budget so imagine my pleasant surprise when I got the opportunity to review the family plan through the homeschool review crew!!
I have been so thrilled with the results of dyslexia gold. The kids never, ever grumble about completing lessons in any of the categories. Eli has continued to get much better with his reading as has Rebekah. Their spelling ability has also improved greatly! I am very thankful that we were introduced to Dyslexia Gold!
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Blessings,
Jennifer
