I just came across Christian Boer's "Dyslexie", a typeface designed to help dyslexic readers. A short video shows how dyslexics see English type forms and provides some ways type has been modified to help readers. Some of the tricks could easily be added to teacher board work for iteracy and ESL students.
Yesterday I subbed in an intermediate ESL class. The students were writing essays. One student put a capital letter at the beginning of every line, new sentence or not. We reviewed sentence structure and the use of the capital letter and the period. The video shows the punctuation drawn larger. Drawing larger periods and commas might have been useful for my student as well.
I readily admit that I have a personal stake in this issue as I really felt that I'd never, ever learn English because "b" and "d" were one huge problem for me - sigh. I finally discovered "bed" which has both the "b" and "d" and looks rather like a bed with head boards so that I could remember "b" and "d" and also that "b", as in "bed", comes before "d" in the alphabet.
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