Workbook in Russian This is the first workbook in a series of neuropsychological collections for the prevention and correction of dyslexia and dysgraphia.
"As a school speech therapist and neuropsychologist, I work daily with children experiencing various writing and reading disorders. Over the years, for my own convenience, I compiled the most effective written exercises into a single workbook-trainer." — Alina Blanche (Maloshik), author of the series
The workbook contains exercises aimed at developing attention, concentration, perception, thinking, and imagination during writing and reading. The tasks are designed in a logical sequence — from simple to complex — stimulating the development of brain functions.
Thanks to the design and the Boer font, adapted for children with dyslexia, the workbook-trainer has become much easier for children, even of preschool age, to perceive and use.
The series is built on the principle of "steps": each workbook continues and complements the previous one, and the exercises help to consolidate and develop skills.
This is the first workbook in the series. We recommend starting with it. Completing the entire series sequentially provides the maximum effect and makes working with a child more systematic and comfortable.
Recommendations
Methodological Description
Who Are These Books For?
Recommendations
How to use?
Always consider the child’s age and abilities!
Do not practice if the child is tired or distracted by another activity.
If necessary, help the child read and explain the instructions for the tasks, and assist in completing the tasks if difficulties arise (especially during correction work). The workbook-trainer is designed to teach, not to test skills. This is important!
Complete the exercises in sequence.
Ideally, spend 15−20 minutes on the exercises. This usually amounts to 3−7 exercises depending on their difficulty, pace, and the child’s level of preparation.
It’s important to eliminate external distractions and noise in the room to maintain focus.
We wish you success!
Methodological Description
Observations.
Experience working with this series of collections shows that children who completed all the exercises with a teacher became more attentive, thoughtful, and analytical when completing tasks. Manifestations such as "intuition-based" and slow reading, fast and careless writing and copying disappeared. Handwriting became more even and legible. The ability to maintain a line while writing and reading improved.
Thanks to the instructions for each task, the Workbook-Trainer is convenient to use at home for sessions with parents or an additional teacher.
Many parents use this material for working with their children at home.
A bit more about the methodology:
This collection of exercises was created to develop attention, concentration, thinking, perception, and imagination in the processes of writing and reading.
The exercises in this Workbook-Trainer help prevent and address problems such as "intuition-based" or "guessing" reading, quick distractibility, inability to concentrate, omission of letters when writing and copying, uneven letter size, low reading speed, difficulties with analysis, inability to maintain a line when writing and reading, poor imagination, and a limited vocabulary.
All exercises are arranged in a specific sequence — from simple to complex — ensuring optimal development.
The exercises develop peripheral vision and perception, the ability to navigate visual space, correct and fast reading skills, attention and concentration management, phoneme and syllable analysis skills, thinking, the ability to analyze and generalize, and logical operations.
It is important to note that the exercises themselves are not original creations — they are well-known and widely used in correctional pedagogy. What is original is the system of exercises — their specific sequence, gradual complication, and selection of tasks.
If you find this material interesting, be sure to check out the other Workbook-Trainer volumes available on the childexperts. eu website. Other related editions are also available, such as neuropsychological trainers, trainers for the development of logic and thinking, and more.
Who Are These Books For?
They are created for children who experience difficulties with reading and therefore do not enjoy it.
Books printed with a specially designed font help solve problems related to the optical perception of text.
It is important not to confuse this with vision problems — optical dyslexia is not related to visual acuity. If your child does not like reading and finds it difficult, they may have optical dyslexia.
In any case, books printed with this font are easier to read than regular ones, and here’s why:
Very often, children with dyslexia, struggling to recognize each letter, lose the meaning of what they read. As a result, reading becomes a difficult and confusing activity for them.
The text of this book is printed with a special AntiDyslexia font, with increased letter size and spacing between letters, words, and lines. This prevents the letters from "running away" or "hiding" on the page.
The rhythmic structure of the text allows the child to scan entire groups of words for instant recognition.
The typographical techniques used in the book’s design help the child move from letter-by-letter reading to reading full words, making the reading, recognition, and comprehension process much easier for children with optical dyslexia.
Signs of Dyslexia:
The child finds it difficult to read (to put letters together into words or syllables) and confuses letters.
The child complains that letters are running away, jumbling, flickering, disappearing, etc.
The child "makes up" endings of words or entire words during reading (instead of reading them correctly), skips letters, cannot retell what they just read (does not understand the meaning of the sentence they just read), swaps syllables, and so on.
