16 Oct 2003
Teachers and Families Are Invited to Workshops
DALLAS—The Dallas Independent School District's Psychological Services Dyslexia Program has planned events to support both teachers and families of students with dyslexia during the final two weeks of Dyslexia Awareness Month.
• A teacher workshop is scheduled from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, at Preston Hollow Elementary School. Authors Carol Adams and Susan Allision will present Journey to Gameland: Bringing Books to Life in the Classroom. This workshop, based on their book of the same name, identifies fun and educational ways to help students extend their love of a favorite book and experience reading in a three-dimensional way.
Teachers will help students develop important classroom skills such as analysis, synthesis, comprehension and evaluation. By learning how to make a board game from a favorite book, teachers and students can enhance creativity while also providing accessibility to the written word for dyslexic children. Preston Hollow Elementary is located 6423 Walnut Hill Ln.
• Presented by Ben Buchanan and his mother Carol Adams, Living with Dyslexia–A Mother and Son's Perspective, is a workshop for families, scheduled Monday, Oct. 27, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Stonewall Jackson Elementary. Buchanan, a ninth-grader and author of My Year with Harry Potter, will discuss his experience of being dyslexic.
Buchanan and Adams will speak to families about the difficulties of the dyslexia experience and discuss Ben's creation of a board game based on the Harry Potter books. The workshop will equip parents with a creative way to stimulate and encourage a dyslexic child. Stonewall Jackson Elementary is located at 5828 E. Mockingbird Ln.
For reservations to either of these events, call (214) 932-5381.