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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would consider a reading tutor who uses an evidence based approach to instruction (Orton- Gillingham / Phonographix).  My child is dyslexic but also had the same anxiety at affecting 5-6 with reading.  Providing your child the tools to read I think over time will help with the anxiety (it did with my child who at 12 can read relatively close to grade level and while anxious about books with a lot of text will now tackle them independently).[/quote]

Thank you. I have emails out to some OG tutors and also wired for reading. Did you do any thing at home? I’m worried about exacerbating the anxiety, so am mostly inclined to lean back, but it’s so hard because I see her struggling and want to help. [/quote]

Our approach at home changed over time.  At first, we primarily just keep reading to our child.  Once our child stated with phonographix (and later OG), we began asking our child to read some to us (buddy reading) but we would help our child sound out words / praise him if he chose a possible correct sound even if it was the wrong one for the word.

For our child, the big jump was in the second half of second grade when we were able to arrange for tutoring 3 hours a week and our child would read with us regularly for 20 minutes.

We were lucky that our child had strong comprehension skills so he made a big jump once he could decode.  Our child developed a very good relationship with his OG tutor which helps greatly since tutoring is not always the most fun thing.
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