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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP again. I will try the reading in one minute test with him. This is similar to what the teachers showed us to report on his progress. I can't remember exactly, but I think it was supposed to be about 50 words for grade level, and he got 20-something.

There's no doubt he is not reading the number he should be. The question is why and what to do about it. What's confusing is that when I read stuff about dyslexia, it doesn't seem to fit. He comprehends remarkably well - he may struggle with a passage but then get to the end after sounding out a lot of words and taking a long time, but he'll know what it was about (way better than my other kid who learned to read with little trouble). He can sound things out decently. He just seems to not have the knowledge base of the content. He is getting there with it but slowly.

A colleague of mine has a kid with dyslexia and recommended some organizations that I reached out to. I still don't really understand what I am looking for in an evaluator - a neuropsychologist? We are set up at CAAT for one with our older kid. It's a huge process with tons of forms and parent interviews. I just don't feel like our other kid needs that kind of thorough process. I'd really just like someone knowledgeable to assess how his reading is going. I'm not opposed to something else, but it's way overkill for a kid otherwise doing well socially, behaviorally, and attention-wise at school.[/quote]

I posted about the DIBELS. Reading 20 something words per minute in second grade is really behind. In the interim I know you said he was tired but if you can do 10 or even 15 minutes a day with him on reading, we used a British program that teaches synthetic phonics. Here is what level A teaches:
https://www.soundfoundations.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/DBA7-web-1.pdf

Here is a link to the program: https://www.soundfoundations.co.uk/en_US/

They have a really good spelling program as well. It is pretty cheap like each book was around $30 so totally worth it just to try it out and see if it works for you. [/quote]

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