I have a 10 year old child who was diagnosed as L.D., four years ago, as a result of not being able to read. Something I did to improve her memory was to make up pneumonics and have her repeat them to me to help her remember. Also, I would frequently test her memory, giving her a series of unrelated numbers or colors to remember and tell her I was going to ask her what the numbers or colors were at a later time. She liked this game, and it helped improve her memory, a great deal. She struggled through 2 years in First Grade as a non-reader, and seeing her motivation to learn to read,I took it upon myself to teach her. At first, we began using the “Hooked on Phonics” Tapes, but I realized she was more of a Visual Learner, so I found some videos at the local library with accompanying workbooks. The videos are entitled “YOU CAN READ”. It took me about 8 weeks, the summer before she entered Second Grade to teach her to read, working with her for 1-2 hours, 2-3 days per week. I also enrolled her in a Charter School, where I felt she would get more undivided attention. Her first Report Card at the Charter School was Exceeds Standards in 5 categories and the remainder Satisfactory. In short, the key to Helping your child to learn to Read is finding out what works and doing it. Most classroom teachers have a hard enough time managing the classroom, these days, much less teaching.Good day, Ernie Snow ([email protected])