■Teachers can help students with dyslexia find success in writing

There are four traits of students who have dyslexia that teachers should know, and teach their students about to help them succeed in the classroom, writes educator Patrick Wilson in this blog post. Students who have dyslexia may have a hard time organizing and writing down their thoughts, so Wilson advises teachers to demonstrate to students how to talk out their thoughts first before trying to express themselves through writing. "A teacher's ability to offer clarity on the student's condition and offer a strategy to become successful could be life changing for so many dyslexics," Wilson writes. Edutopia.org/Patrick Wilson's blog (10/26) http://www.edutopia.org/blog/4-things-about-dyslexic-brain-patrick-wilson