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Mar 31, 2009
I know you're not supposed to label a six-year-old, but this kid's obviously dyslexic. He fits nearly all the criteria, including family history and severe speech issues. He gets speech therapy four times a week. I might add that his mother uses the word dyslexic too, so this is no news to his parents.
Unfortunately, or fortunately, he's too high to qualify for sessions with our reading teacher. He's on grade level, maybe even slightly above, because he's memorized words based on the first and last letters and the shape of the word. He knows every letter, every sound, every sight word, but he can't decode to save his little life.
He even does OK on the DIBELS nonsense word fluency test, because he can always get the first and last sounds, but the middle sound is just a wild guess. I swear it's like the middle of the word is a black hole for him or something. He always k...See More
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Gracie
From what I've read, 1. I find his disability has not held him back from being a slightly above reader. 2. Knowing every sound, letter and can apply the knowledge of sightwords without reversing the first and last letters. 3. He relies on the configuration of the word. 4. Evidently when he's reading , he uses context to determine the correst word w...See More
ga
do count him wrong when he reverses his letters or numbers in first grade?
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