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Originally posted by Garnet:
Sir Kenyth
I'm going to presume that, by your admission that by the time you were his age, you were reading at high school level, your son is beyond 'easy reader' books.
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I sure don't expect him to be reading at the level I was. I was a gifted reader. Spelling and vocabulary were also strong points. On the other hand, this was balanced out by poor to mediocre performance in math. Grant is performing to standards in math. I did expect him to be able to read competently by this point in time. I catch him constantly asking me or other relatives what something says, without even trying to read it himself. I always answer with,"well, you've got eyes to read it with too. Don't you buddy?" and I make him read it. At this point in time, I think he dislikes reading and writing because he knows he is so far behind and it shames him. Avoiding it won't make him better at it though. I'll start off with reading comprehension and a verbal report of what he read and some word circle puzzles. After a little while I'll make him write his report in a few sentences.
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