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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. I forgot to mention that he also has speech delay. My older child is a special need child and he can read chapter books and does multiplication at age 5. Not for comparison, I would never expect that my younger child would struggle with reading/writing and he is not good with math. He has IEP or child find program since 1 year old, so I have been keeping track of his development.  Preschool teacher has tried extra effort to do 1:1 on him, and it took him a long long time to learn phonics. His IQ seems fine, but I wonder if he is dyslexia. He is going to 1st grade, and we are not holding him back. [/quote]

Why not hold him back? I have a son now in first who really struggled with reading in kindergarten. I worked on it every night with him and it drove me nuts how he just could not get it (we were still struggling with the simplest bob books), so what you are describing does not seem that abnormal me.

His reading really took off in first grade. His school had him meet with an orton-gillingham trained reading specialist daily, and I kept working on it at home with him every night (used a book called Teach Your Child to Read in 20 lessons, which I found to be MUCH easier to handle than the 100 lessons book.  While I think the reading specialist helped a lot, I suspect a lot of it was that he was actually ready in first grade, like that part of his brain needed for reading finally developed. So I guess if I were you and really worried, I would consider holding him back if he has a late birthday. You could chance it that he will get it in first grade but first grade is a lot more intense than kindergarten, so that is a consideration. [/quote]

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