Why Students Reverse Letters | Make Take & Teach  Why Students
Reverse Letters   Many parents become quite concerned when
looking at their child’s writing and see that their child is
confusing letters such as b/d, p/q or m/w.  Letter and word
reversals have become so strongly associated with dyslexia that
it’s no wonder why parents are anxious when they see such
confusions.  As educators, it is important for us to understand
why students reverse letters and to provide parents with the
best information possible.  Learning to Read  Before we talk
about reversals, let’s take a moment and think about what we are
asking children to do when we are teaching them to read.  In our
system, learning to read is based on the alphabetic principle. 
This means that a child must understand that letters have sounds
that make words when combined together.  Letters are
“abstract”.   There are 26 letters of the alphabet and letters
consist of a series of sticks, circles and curves that when
combined in different ways, make diffe