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[quote=Anonymous]My first grade child has been diagnosed with dyslexia. He clearly struggles a lot to read. We have been doing evidence-based tutoring with an OG curriculum three times a week and I also work with him at home using the same program. He has been making great strides at home and we are proud of how hard he is working. He also has been gaining confidence in his reading and reading more effortlessly.

Unfortunately, his experience at school seems to constantly undermine this fragile confidence. They use a leveled reading program and he is just now (end of the year) starting the leveled readers for 1st grade. All  the other kids are in reading groups at a much higher level and he compares himself to them. The leveled readers themselves contain words that are impossibly long and difficult to read -- they don't make any sense as readers for kids learning to decode. And while  they contain long words that are hard to decode, they also contain incredibly boring, repetitive text that DS hates. (Jane likes puppies. Jane likes unicorns). So, he is hopeless in decoding readers that he thinks are mind numbingly boring..........this is very frustrating for him. (At home, he can read a lot of words fairly well in controlled text books that his reading teacher pointed me to.) Then there is the phonics instruction and sight words approach at school, which just seems to confuse him by chunking everything together and teaching a lot of rules that he can't remember.

It is so frustrating! Emotionally, he gets all fed up at school from these confusing methods and then he doesn't want to try at home.

I am beginning to understand why people pull their dyslexic kids out of school to home school.  I don't see how this could be an option for us. But right now, it feels like two steps forward, three steps back. [/quote]

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