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[quote=Anonymous]My child had a speech delay due to multiple ear infections causing prolonged intermittent hearing loss. He was in speech therapy and could not blend or rhyme at age 4. Reading research I knew he was at a huge risk of having trouble learning how to read.

The most important thing I learned was he needed daily intervention. It wasn’t going to be enough 1-2 a week or even three times a week of intervention. And because we couldn’t afford to pay for hundreds of hours of tutoring AND there is a limit of how much a 4-5 year old can sit there and do work.

We ended up buying several reading/spelling programs. Then I sat down and worked with him every day -7 days a week for a year. I wrote it down on a calendar and it was 360 out of 365 days. Even if it was only 5-10 minutes it became like brushing teeth something you do every day.

And to motivate him because it was hard work he got stickers and earned prizes every Friday. We went to target and looked and Amazon so he was always working towards something. Days that were really hard for him he got candy/smoothie after reading (I put a gummy or mm chocolate on the periods so as soon as he read a sentence he got the candy.

I bought 100 easy lessons to start because they have some great say it fast say it slow 
 Exercises to work on blending. I bought All About Reading and All About Spelling which is an OG program (I just tweaked it so we skipped the short e words because 100 easy lessons works on long e first)

After 360 days he was 5 and reading. He had no problem blending orally when a year before he could not orally blend words or do any phonemic awareness activities.

I continued buying different curriculum throughout early elementary. The one to one really made the difference.,
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