I would like to introduce you to Andy Salmon, the creator of Sir Linkalot, a fun and innovative award-winning app that is transforming how English spellings are taught, especially the tricky words on the UK government’s list that children need to commit to memory, all the way from ‘was’ to ‘onomatopoeia’.
Many dyslexia associations endorse the product as rote learning simply doesn’t work for the children they work with.
Students whose mother tongue isn’t English have said that taking words off the page and animating them in this way is knocking down barriers, as English is a far from phonetic language.