Those who attend our training “Teaching Students with Dyslexia (TSD)” learn how to use this resource with students. Knowing the alphabet song doesn’t mean a student knows the alphabet. Many students can say the alphabet song, but cannot associate letters with their names. This is where the wooden letters come in as an important teacher of letter-name correspondence. The intervention can proceed with real effectiveness only when letter names are memorised.

In Playberry T3, we use UPPER CASE letters first. While students learn the alphabet and letter names, uppercase letters are less confusing because they do not pose b,d,p,q,n, and u reversals. We use wooden letters to help students memorise the alphabetic sequence, the look of letters, their feel, and their correct orientation through visual, auditory, and kinesthetic (VAK) memory systems. Students practice sequencing letters, developing auditory memory strategies.