Kindergarten & First Grade

Characteristics of dyslexia and related disorders:

Kindergarten & First Grade

Characteristics/Risk Factors:

Difficulty breaking words into smaller parts, or syllables (e.g., "baseball" can be pulled apart into "base" "ball" or "napkin" can be pulled apart into "nap" "kin")
Difficulty identifying and manipulating sounds in syllables (e.g., "man" sounded out as /m/ /a/ /n/)
Difficulty remembering the names of letters and recalling their corresponding sounds
Difficulty decoding single words (reading single words in isolation)
Difficulty spelling words the way they sound (phonetically) or remembering letter sequences in very common words seen often in print (e.g., "sed" for "said")