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[quote=Anonymous]My oldest tried to read a 400 page biography of Patton during first grade. I'm not saying he was entirely successful at it, but he tried. He was an oddball, but a good reader.

Basically, at this stage, you need to work on getting a solid foundation in phonics. Several of the local school districts have seen the light as of this year and started to implement phonics-based programs instead of ineffective balanced literacy ones, but unless the teacher is either old as dirt or a recent graduate from one of the universities in Mississippi, this is going to be entirely new and contrary to all previous training in the subject. So I would not rely on your school.

Work through a copy of "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" -- you should probably be able to blaze through -- or, if you are ambitious, McGuffey's Revised Primer, then First and Second. Pick up decodable readers at roughly your kids level. Be alert for skipping, guessing, or relying on context clues. Have him sound out the words.[/quote]

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