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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher here - Please stop now - your son is fine - way too early to get caught up in the race to nowhere. Just encourage him to do his best.[/quote] This is horrible advice. First grade is early enough to assess whether your child is dyslexic and/or dysgraphic. If your child is dyslexic, you can then push for appropriate evidence based phonics instruction that will give your child tools to decode words and encode (spell) words. Schools often are still not using evidence based approaches to reading instruction so the full extent of struggles your child may be having may be masked by flawed taught strategies such as guessing words rather than using phonics skills.[/quote]
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