Multi-sensory Approaches
Multi-sensory means that teaching and learning employs the use of more than one sensory channel for input of information.  They should see, hear, see and do.

• Tracing in sand while saying the sounds, tracing raised letters or numerals (sandpaper or felt)
• Making letters out of play dough and matching to letter shapes while naming letters
• Mind-mapping (Buzan, 2000)
• Word-making and breaking with magnetic letters on a white board (also saying the sounds and names of letters)
• Look, Say, Trace, Cover, Write, Check and its variations
• Simultaneous Oral Spelling
• Thinking skills with concrete material, discussion and visualizing and verbalizing
• Taped stories so child can listen and read and point at the words if necessary
• Computer programs for reinforcement of such things as spelling with word appearing with accompanying reading of the word then word to be written from memory.