Rora- or other teachers

Holly_1007 · March 2013

Rora, are you lurking today?

I'm still having a really hard time with my SD learning to read. She is just not getting it. She is still in RTI (Is that what the abbreviation is?) and is advancing, just very slowly. She gets very frustrated very easily and cries the second she can't figure out a word. I have tried doing less workbook/ homework type stuff with her, like making something and having her read the recipe but that just gets frustrating because some of those words are really hard (vanilla extract) and same with grocery lists, she gets to the point that she is just guessing half the time (which I know is part of learning, and I guess that is how they are teaching it now?)

So anyways, we are still working. The newest issue though is she has been inserting letters where they don't belong. For example she was reading a book about beavers. Beavers build dams. We sounded out the words "dams" "d-ah-m-s" Then I said okay, put it together. She says "damps" I said "SD There is no "p" sound in that word, is there? She says no. We sound it out again: d-a-m-s, put the sounds together: "damps". I said SD, "damps" isn't a word, is it? No, okay lets try again. rinse, repeat. for a half an hour I tried everything I could think of and she just kept inserting the "p". Okay, maybe it wasn't a half an hour, but it was a good 15 minutes. This is just an example, she inserts letters that aren't there all the time. Do you have any suggestions on how I can get her not to do this? DH thinks it might be a form of dyslexia, but I really don't know. And honestly, if it is, I would sincerely hope her teacher or RTI teacher would catch onto it, right?

Thank you!!

bubble515 · March 2013

i'm not rora, but in education. speak to her teachers about your concerns and see if you can get any evals to look into dyselxia. you would hope that they would point it out, but sometimes they dont.

there is also orton gilligham

noloveintennis · March 2013

i don't know if this will help or not, but my nephew had a really hard time learning to read. turns out he had vision problems. his eyes didn't track the way they should have. he went through vision therapy and now reads above his grade level. they had th

senorita04 · March 2013

noloveintennis:
i don't know if this will help or not, but my nephew had a really hard time learning to read. turns out he had

Holly_1007 · March 2013

Thanks everyone.

She was complaining about her eyes last year, had them checked in August and there was a very slight issue that the doctor said didn't even require glasses (and IIRC it was a distance vision issue, not reading).

She does ha

Newt69 · March 2013

I used to confuse Ds and Bs, 3s and capital Es. I ended up needing speech therapy for a lisp and OT for my dyslexia. My mom even fought for my rights bc my school didnt feel the need to put an OT on the payroll....I trained/outgrew the dyslexia but someti

jussagirl02 · March 2013

I am a special education resource teacher at a kinder through 8th school. What grade is she in? How long has she been in RtI? Have they looked at the program she is using in RtI because that might not be the most effective program for her. IMO, you could

Holly_1007 · March 2013

jussagirl02:
I am a special education resource teacher at a kinder through 8th school. What grade is she in? How long has she

L8kissie · March 2013

I am a teacher and I struggled with reading myself and didn't master it until 3rd grade. My mom was a teacher and still had trouble teaching me. I wasn't interested in phonics and working on sounding out words. My grandpa taught me and I'm a whole languag

L8kissie · March 2013

Darn phone. I wanted to know how the characters were doing. I still prefer series. Look for a series with a character she connects with, such as Junie B. Jones, Clementine, or Magic Tree House. I think I remember her being about 6. You can take turns read

Holly_1007 · March 2013

L8kissie:
Darn phone. I wanted to know how the characters were doing. I still prefer series. Look for a series with a characte

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