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7 Creative Writing Tools For Dyslexic Kids

Dyslexia is a language-based learning disability which makes it difficult for people to deal with certain language skills, especially writing and reading. Around 10% of people in the UK have dyslexia and if your kid is one of those people you should start looking for interesting and effective ways to help them. Luckily there are lots of creative tools that can help kids with dyslexia.

To help you out we’ve created a list of 7 creative writing tools for dyslexic kids so just keep reading to learn about the interesting methods for helping your kid deal with this learning difficulty.

Here we take a closer look.

Crazy Cursive Letter

When you’re trying to help your kids with dyslexia improve their writing skills you should try to make it fun for them. Learning gamification should be one of your choices because it is really motivating for kids. Crazy Cursive Letters is definitely an app that can help.

It’s designed for kids 6-8 and here’s what it offers:

• practising cursive
• physically tracing over letters
• word-forming practice
• letters are sounded out phonetically

Kids can play the game and improve their cursive writing while adding their own words making it really fun.

It’s fun, educational and very effective.

Crazy Cursive Letter

Speechnotes

Children want to be in charge of their learning and writing process and they can be with the Speechnotes app. The app is very simple to use so even the younger kids will master it in minutes.

Here are some ways dyslexic kids can benefit from the app:

• saying words or short phrases
• spelling it out and types it for them
• rewrite it letter by letter

Kids can have fun saying phrases that come to their mind and having them typed out immediately making it the perfect spelling assistant.

It’s the perfect spelling assistant for dyslexic kids to rely on and then learn from.

Speechnotes

Montessori Words

Another brilliant app that helps dyslexic kids practice learning the phonetics of letters, spelling and writing is the Montessori Words app because it’s another gamified app it allows kids to:

• construct words from blocks of letters
• hear the sound of each letter
• build the words they’re assigned or words they come up with

The app is simple to use and has a colourful fun layout with sound effects and great design so your kids will love it.

Your kid will love using it to practice their spelling and writing.

Montessori Words

Mind Mapping

Helping your kids write means helping them organize their thoughts and turn them into words. Mind mapping is a method many parents use to help their dyslexic kids prepare for a writing practice session because mind mapping is a visual representation of ideas and here’s how it works.

Mind Mapping

• the main idea is in the centre bubble in the middle of the page
• supporting ideas are surrounding the main bubble, each in their own bubble

For dyslexic kids you could instruct them to draw the ideas that are in the bubbles which then makes the preparation step easier. Once they create their mind map they’ll be attempting to write about the ideas from each of the bubbles.

Meaning children only need to focus on writing since the ideas are already defined and prepared.

It takes some burden off their shoulders and helps them find their focus.

Dyslexia Quest

Another highly appreciated and popular app for helping children deal with writing and reading problems is the Dyslexia Quest.

The app is a fun way for children to deal with the issues caused by dyslexia and practice overcoming them.

The fun aspect of it will make sure your kids listen to you and accept practising writing without complaining.

The app offers help with:

• working memory
• phonological awareness
• visual and auditory memory
• sequencing skills

By playing this game children slowly progress and work on polishing the skills that will help them write better whilst also having fun.

Dyslexia Quest

Audiobooks

When your kid is dealing with dyslexia and finding it hard to read and write on their own you could consider using the help of an audiobook. Audiobooks will provide the help they need to follow the reading materials at their own pace and even practice writing afterwards.

Here’s what we suggest:

• buy a printed copy of a children’s book
• find the same audiobook online
• play it for your child and have them follow along in their printed copy at the same time

This way they’ll be able to pause, repeat, and slow down whenever they feel the need to. After successfully reading a short segment of the book they can try and copy it on a separate piece of paper.

Basic Spell Checker

For older kids who’ve already acquired certain writing skills finding a basic spell online can be extremely helpful.

Allow them to type the text directly into the spell checker like Grammarly and it will automatically find and mark their spelling mistakes.

They can revise the mistake and see the correct spelling then attempt to make it right.

Also an online writing service such as Get Good Grade can help dyslexic kids with writing more demanding pieces of text. It can assess and proofread a larger piece of written content and give feedback to your kids on how they did.

Final Thoughts

Dyslexia is a learning disability

That allows you to work on it and improve your skills in time. It’s important that you give your best to help your kids learn and practice writing creatively enabling them to make baby steps in their progress.

We hope the creative writing tools for kids we’ve shared above will make it easier for you to help your kids learn easier and better. Use the tools you like the most and see how your kids improve their writing skills with them.

7 Creative Writing Tools For Dyslexic Kids.

Check out one of Jessica’s other blogs – writing activities for kids.

Jessica Fender

Jessica Fender is a professional writer and educational blogger at EssayShark, an aggregator for useful college resources and websites. She enjoys sharing her ideas to make writing and learning fun.