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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do that already. The child still can’t read on his own. I don’t think he’s actually being taught to read at school (DCPS)[/quote]

He isn't, I'm sorry to say.  I did the "just read to them every day and they'll pick it up" thing advised by PPs and it was wrong.  I taught my K kid to read in about three weeks over the summer after kindergarten -- every single day she had to read to *me* for 20 minutes.  We still did plenty of reading from me to her, at bedtime or any other time she asked, but she had to be the one reading for a solid 20 minutes.  It was torture at first because she hated feeling like she was doing something poorly (no practice at school!  Only the kids who knew how to read at the beginning of the year were ever called on, so she thought she was uniquely dumb or something for not having any reading fluency), but it only took a few weeks of consistency for her to pick it up.  But it was the extra time in the summer that made it possible.

Now I work hard on reading with her, we find new series that she's interested in and read together all the time.  DH supplements with math and telling time on an analog clock because he's just more interested in that.  I will probably teach her cursive, and I'm in charge of making her practice her instrument.[/quote]

[b]Nobody is saying just read to him.[/b] I'm saying that reading to him is helpful and PP shouldn't feel like she isn't doing anything. He's not outside the norm for halfway through K, and it's ok to do bedtime reading on the weekdays and save more targeted interventions for non-school days. [/quote]

LITERALLY the first response is that all OP should do is read to him.  Literally.  "Just read" the thread to see that you are incorrect.[/quote]

Can hit stfu [/quote]

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