Rising 2nd grader not reading

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
You might consider having an eye exam to look for convergence issues in addition to acuity. Can have 20/20 acuity but have issues of convergence where literally one eye is looking at one line and the other eye is focused on another eye. We had this issue and after a lot of work corrected it and now in a top private HS doing great/honors classes.

There is zero data to support this in scientific literature.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My rising second grader really cannot read (Bob books are a struggle). Our school has promoted him to second grade but I am starting to get concerned because he is way behind his peers who seem to all be reading chapter books (boys and girls). Would you press the school to keep him back a grade or consider holding back and sending to public? I can’t really blame virtual school because he was in person most of the year. I’m worried that school is going to become incredibly demoralizing next year and I’m not sure he will be able to catch up even with summer work. Should we give it another year at this private or act now?

You need to act now. The older kids get, the harder it will be to learn. Get in with a tutor or SLP who focuses on Orton Gillingham. Contact the school, express your concern, consider switching to school that has the resources to better support your child. Consider getting an evaluation.
-Educational Psychologist

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you can afford private school you can afford a trained reading tutor at your home three times a week. Do not do this yourself. Do not wait on the school. Skilled instructors can teach even dyslexic children to read if the student is still young enough.

We brought in a trained reading tutor for our non-reading rising first grader. DS could not even recognize all the letters of the alphabet. A NP evaluation gave him a dyslexia diagnosis. After one session the tutor, an OG trained DC public school teacher, was confident she could teach him to read. She said even dyslexic children could learn to read well if reached before the end of first grade. She did not seem to think teaching our DS to read was even a big challenge. We were skeptical.

It worked! Apparently the methods to teach children like this are well known and effective. OG method and repetition ...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here, thanks for all of the helpful feedback. The comments have confirmed that my suspicions are correct. He turned 7 in February so is not young for the grade. The school was very focused on social emotional learning this year and I would say didn’t focus on the issue. We will pursue private testing and consider other school options including public depending on what the assessment shows. I’m thinking if all of the other kids were able to learn it might not be the right school. He is very aware that he is behind.

That sounds like a good approach. You can also request an evaluation through your public school district. I would tutor and plan a move to public at your earliest opportunity.

OP if testing shows that your child has any amount of dyslexia, I would not suggest public *unless* you were remediating the reading privately. Also, when you receive your testing results, ask the neuropsychologist if an Orton-Gillingham method program is recommended. Not every reading tutor is trained in these methods.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you can afford private school you can afford a trained reading tutor at your home three times a week. Do not do this yourself. Do not wait on the school. Skilled instructors can teach even dyslexic children to read if the student is still young enough.

We brought in a trained reading tutor for our non-reading rising first grader. DS could not even recognize all the letters of the alphabet. A NP evaluation gave him a dyslexia diagnosis. After one session the tutor, an OG trained DC public school teacher, was confident she could teach him to read. She said even dyslexic children could learn to read well if reached before the end of first grade. She did not seem to think teaching our DS to read was even a big challenge. We were skeptical.

It worked! Apparently the methods to teach children like this are well known and effective. OG method and repetition ...

Makes you wonder why so many schools moved away from phonics, repetition and Og-like teaching and instead do brute force memorizing and whole language. No doubt the latter is less effort than the former.