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One in 5 American children has trouble reading. But they are not stupid or lazy. In Overcoming Dyslexia, Dr. Sally Shaywitz, co-director of the Yale Center for the Study of Learning and Attention and a leader in the new research into how the brain works, offers the latest information about reading problems and proven, practical techniques that, along with hard work and the right help, can enable anyone to overcome them. Here are the tools that parents and teachers need to help the dyslexic child, age by age, grade by grade, step by step.

• What dyslexia is and why some intelligent, gifted people read slowly and painfully
• How to identify dyslexia in preschoolers, shoolchildren, young adults and adults
• How to find the best school and how to work productively with your child’s teacher
• Exercises to help children use the parts of the brain that control reading
• A 20-minute nightly home program to enhance reading
• The 150 most common problem words – a list that can give your child a head start
• Ways to raise and preserve a child’s self-esteem and reveal his strengths
• Stories of successful men and women who are dyslexic

This innovative multisensory touch-typing method enables students of all ages to learn to type quickly and easily by presenting the keyboard in alphabetic order. After students learn to type the alphabet (usually in less than an hour), they practice words, phrases, sentences, numbers, symbols and punctuation using a systematic, structured, sequential and cumulative format. 48 pages. Grades 3-adult

These write-on/wipe-off, spiral bound-books provide students with uppercase and lowercase letters to trace, manuscript lines for additional letter-writing practice and fun activities to reinforce learning every letter. Books feature 24 pages of color-coded vowels and consonants that correlate with the Reading Rods® system.

• A beginner's dictionary written for children grades K-2, ages 5-7
• Hundreds of illustrations by celebrated children's author Ruth Heller
• Introduces young readers to almost 3,000 words, using nearly 1,000 entries
• Covers basic dictionary skills: alphabetization, spelling, pronunciation, use of synonyms and antonyms, and using words in context
• Nearly 1,000 entries include definitions, example sentences and word histories
• Packed with jokes, poems and fun facts to foster and develop a child's language skills

A dictionary for children grades 2-4, ages 8-11.

• Over 32,000 entries
• 600 full-color illustrations and 250 word history paragraphs
• Features special sections on U.S. presidents and geographical information