Posted by Elem. Ed. on 11/15/08

(This was also posted on the Reading/Writing board but I
thought I would post here too because I really need help
on this one.)

I teach 3rd grade and have a student that is reading on a
1st grade level. He is receiving 1 hour a day of special
help sessions to work on his decoding. The problem is he
retains nothing if more than a day lapses without practice
on that specific skill. Currently, we're working on short
vowel sounds. He can differentiate between short a and
short e but then "loses it" once we move on to a new
skill. I have found through his writing that he
consistently writes little "a" but says "I". He writes "y"
for the "w" sound. In addition to all this, he gets
modified spelling lists and works on Fry phrases which
contain high frequency words.

I am at a loss as to how to help this child. His decoding
is so poor he cannot even begin to comprehend. His writing
is so bad it is difficult to make out what he is trying to
say. I usually have him read back to me what he wrote and
often he can't read it either. Any thoughts or advice
about where to go next? I am grasping at straws and
wondering how this child ever even got to 3rd grade!

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