Homeschooling a child with dyslexia: where did you start?

Homeschooling a dyslexic reader can be the best thing for them, one to one, at their own pace, with no comparison to a class, but the first year is daunting. The starting point most families land on is the same: a structured, ordered approach that teaches the sounds and spellings directly and in sequence, rather than a print-rich, guess-friendly one.

For the homeschooling parents here: how did you begin? What routine, how many minutes a day, and how did you handle the days it fell apart? What do you wish someone had told you at the start?

Lillory sits well beside a homeschool day: it carries the ordered decoding practice and keeps the record, so you can see what is landing. But the community's hard-won routines are the real answer here.