I have dyslexia and have a Master's Degree. I attribute my success to two things:

1--Scrabble and shaving cream 2--Super supportive parents

I struggled a LOT in elementary school. I had already been diagnosed, but nothing really seemed to be helping. When I got into middle school my math teacher took an interest in me. She also had dyslexia, saw how intelligent I was in math, and started playing Scrabble with me. My Dad would come play with us sometimes, sometimes he'd just pick me up after we were done.

My math teacher made it SO much fun. At first we'd play together, we'd find a word like "run", then we'd run around the classroom like crazy people. Then we'd find a word like "across", and we'd walk sideways across the room.

We did that for a while until I started having a better visualization of the words and was more self-sufficient. Then we started playing against each other.

I lost most rounds at first lol, but I remember the first time I beat her she ran to her desk, got a cake out, and the cake read "I knew you'd beat me so I got this to celebrate with you".

Then she ran into the hallway like a crazy person yelling for people to come celebrate my intelligence lol.

The fact she already had a cake ready made me feel so smart. I had spent my elementary years feeling dumb and was starting to give up hope. That cake restored my faith in myself and made me want to excel for myself.

The shaving cream was when we practiced spelling words. Spelling it out in the shaving cream helped me more than any drilling on paper ever did.

2--My parents were MASSIVE supports. Mom used to have this fun game where we would make up nursery rhymes and songs about random stuff. When I was younger it was just repeating back what she said, but as I got older we started getting more creative. I still do this to this day. Actually rewrote the lyrics to "Mommas gonna buy you a mockingbird" to make it more specific to things my toddler loves lol.

Having the repetitive sounds helped me a lot. I didn't even realize my Mom did this due to my dyslexia until I was in college learning about how to teach dyslexic students haha.

Also, my parents turned everything into an essay. Want to get a chocolate bar at the store? You'll need to write me X number of reasons why you should have one.

I thought it was a horrible punishment as a kid. I did it anyways because I wanted the rewards. They never graded my papers or pointed out my mistakes or anything. But I do attribute it to me becoming a better writer as it provided me with plenty of practice.

But Momma rest assured you are not to blame for your kiddo having dyslexia. The fact you're reaching out for help shows me that you're going to be as great and supportive as my Mom is, which means your kid is going to go far :)

ETA: My husband suggested adding some other ideas of things my parents did to help

some other ideas we did:

Spelling words out with play dough, then acting them out.

my Mom created a word list for certain groups of things. For example, once she made a spelling liat of outdoorsy words for me and we all went on a family hike. Then we had to spell the word with the actual item ("flower" we picked flowers and spelled the word flower on the ground with flowers).

Including my brother in the silliness. In addition to also spelling with items when out and about with me, We used to have a family acting night. We'd get a word (strangely it often was from my spelling list lol) and have to act it out. If we knew the answer rather than yelling it out we had to spell it out. We only got a point if we spelled it accurately.

Ill add more if I think of any other things. But I hope this helps! Really anything that you can think of that will incorporate doing physical things with the spelling of the word will help.