Posted on 07/28/2018 5:06:38 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
My wife & I were both former public school teachers. We home-schooled our 8 before it was cool. 5 college grads, 8 degrees, 2- Summa Cum Laude’s, 2 - Phi Beta Kappa’s, 2 - engineers, 1 - Tau Beta Pi (engineer honors society like PBK), 1 - Navy officer soon-to-be pilot, 1 other pilot, all made their own way through college; non-degreed 3 all very successful in their careers - and 4 grand-kids now being home-schooled, reading at 4 years old.........all the grace of God......
Daughter now teaching ESL in S. Korea with degree in Linguistics from UVA explained this to me - Korean a totally phonetic language, very simple. I never knew that.....
get your child on magnesium glycinate and/or malate. we are all extremely depleted in mag and when so, you see ocd, anxiety, depression and a host of other symptoms.
Amen! The day the Scholastic Books order came in was absolutely glorious. We got to sit at our desks and read in peace.
When I was in second grade I was behind in reading so every afternoon my Mom would do a 30 minute flash card session with me. My kid sister who was four and a half at the time would sit behind me and call out the words before I could. LOL!
Awesome! Great job LuckyStarMom.
Mine had a brain injury, and we had a terrible time getting the services we needed.
Having an IEP doesn’t guarantee services. We could either hire a lawyer or go to private school. It was a better decision to go private.
Private schools are required to comply with IEP also. And, they are your best bet. For those in public school they have a holdback rule typically requiring a child to be held back two grades before they provide special ed.
Private schools don’t have to follow an IEP. For example, my daughter needed speech therapy. The private school did not have to provide that.
The public school was required to provide therapy, but we disagreed on type and amount.
Even after we got an independent evaluation at district expense and used the providers the school district picked out, they still would not provide treatments based on those evaluations.
The independent neuropsychologist said it was the worst IEP she had ever been in.
I wanted to move, but my husband didn’t. We opted for private school with a pull out program for reading and then private speech therapy after school.
It was expensive and so much work!
That’s it! Reading is simply decoding. Learn to decipher the code and you can read anything. It does not require eight years of lessons and scores of textbooks to learn the reading code.
Your mother was smart. Teach the phonics well, and sight-reading will come naturally. It will not need to be "taught".
Can you sight-read this garbled speech by the first Republican president?
Fuor srcoe and sveen yraes ago our ftrehas bghurot fotrh on tihs cnnoitnet, a new notain, cnveieocd in Lbetiry, and dateceidd to the ptorooipsin taht all men are cteraed euaql.Now we are egengad in a graet cviil war, tientsg wtheehr taht niaton, or any notian so cvnieoced and so dceitaded, can lnog eunrde. We are met on a garet bttlae-filed of taht war. We hvae cmoe to dcdteaie a protoin of taht fleid, as a fianl rsetnig pclae for tohse who here gvae tiehr leivs taht taht ntioan mghit lvie. It is atgheeotlr fintitg and poperr taht we soluhd do tihs.
But, in a lgerar sesne, we can not dceaitde -- we can not csoetracne -- we can not hlalow -- tihs gnruod. The bavre men, lviing and daed, who sgrluetgd hree, have ctsrencaeod it, far avboe our poor pewor to add or drecatt. The wrlod wlil llttie ntoe, nor lnog reembemr waht we say hree, but it can nveer foergt waht tehy did hree. It is for us the livnig, rheatr, to be dcaideted hree to the uhfsenniid wrok wcihh tehy who fhugot hree hvae tuhs far so nloby acevndad. It is rahetr for us to be hree didtecead to the geart tsak raminneig bferoe us -- taht form tsehe hnoored daed we tkae incareesd doeivton to taht cusae for wichh tehy gvae the lsat full marseue of dietoovn -- taht we hree hhgily rovesle taht tehse daed slahl not hvae deid in vain -- taht tihs notian, udenr God, slahl hvae a new brith of frodeem -- and taht gnvernmoet of the poeple, by the ppoele, for the pleope, slahl not pisreh form the etarh.
Each word in the speech starts with the same first letter and ends with the same last letter. The letters in between are randomly shuffled. But research has shown that normal English speakers can still read the text!
Sight-reading does not need to be taught. It comes naturally. Phonics is what needs to be taught!
Public schools have become indoctrination centers.
JoMa
I know I am a bad person. I am sorry.
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