I am a parent of a High School student reading at 3 grade level. Her reading teacher is doing SRA reading lab with her. After complaining about this to the Special Ed director the Teacher worked one on one with her today. She said that he was asking her to break down words by sorting out the Consonants and vowels in the word to sound them out. She said that this is what they tried to do in 1st and 2nd grade with me. She said she was so frustrated that she just wanted to cry. As a parent who has no training at all in teaching reading I think that this methord of teaching a H-S student at this point is useless. If she can not decode word’s by Phonics than is this methord going to help her or hurt her by her just giving up. I need your input as I am trying my best to get the school to help her. Sometimes I wonder if it is just time to give up and just let her get through the next few when she can finally be free.
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This class I am speaking of is a class just for her for reading. Their are only 6 kids in this class.I have spoken to someone at LindaMoodbell and they say that seeing stars is a good program for her.It teaches word reciginition through pictures
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Hi Sue, and angel,
Both of you, but especially angel, should have your kid’s evaluated by a developmental optometrist, one with a vision therapy dept. Both kids would very likely benefit from vision therapy. When a child says words are doubling up, hopping around, or swimming on the page, that child has a vision problem. Start doing some reading on vision therapy and the types of issues it addresses….Rod
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I am a special education that specializes in remediating high school students. I have a very good success rate. Please do a search in the archives under either my name, shay or PG or Reading Reflex. You may email me directly and I will help you with suggestions.
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Listen to Shay; shne knows what she is doing, and it works.
I can certainly understand your daughter’s frustration, but there is a problem called throwing the baby out with the bathwater. She had ineffective teaching and became frustrated in Grades 1 and 2. This is bad, but too late now to change the past. She does need those phonics skills; she should be taught at a conceptual level suitable to her age, but she does need them.If she totally rejects a new program because it has some things in common with something that was badly done in the past, then she is setting herself up for failure. Try to encourage her to make a fresh start with a positive attitude.
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Hi Sue,
I agree with those recommending you read “Reading Reflex.” It explains and teaches you the “Phono-Graphix” reading method, which is the best I’ve found in my 22 years of tutoring reading. As an example of the program’s success, I am working with an 18 year old who just graduated from our local h.s. in spec. ed; couldn’t read a thing but CVC (cons., vowel, cons) words, like “cat”. After 10 hours of instruction, he is decoding EVERYTHING and we are now working on his fluency. I am video taping his progress, as his mom was told he would NEVER read and she and I are going to the district soon!
Get the book, and add me to your list of resources for help. good luck, Leslie in CA.
I have a son who is a 7th grader at 2nd to 3rd grade level reading.. He also does not decode, he has had phonic up the wazoo. so he knows the rules, but when it comes down to it, the letters start hopping all over the page. every time he looks at a word it looks different to him. I had him tested by the edu. services for our county and the found that he is a visual learner…… so.. basiclly he needs a picture to help him decode.
I would not give up on your daughter, but in my opinion getting her fusterated is not doing anybody any good. If she needs information she should either have it read to her or have it on tape. you can have that written on her IEP. Does she use a computer to take notes at school? Does she use a spelling calculator? you can have that written on the IEP also. She will eventually figure it out, but there are many ways you can make learning easier.