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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am having a hard time imagining a kid who can't read being ok in 2nd grade in any subject.

Teacher isn't concerned because DS is showing progress even though well below grade level still.

I was giving it time, understanding challenges of last year but I am starting to panic a bit thinking that this school year will be over before we know it.

What would you do??[/quote]

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons.

It should be for sale on Amazon. Spend 30 or so minutes a day and around 30 bucks and fix the issue.

Don’t wait for government school and a teacher with many other children—maybe not doing as well as yours— to manage.[/quote]
+1.  This book is gold.  It tells you how to teach reading step-by-step in bite sized chunks.  If your child starts having trouble with lessons, back up 5-10 lessons and redo those.  Once you get past lesson 50 you can start adding practice with Bob books.  When you get into the 90s then you can start with Dear Dragon books.  [/quote]

100 Easy Lessons is an amazing book, I really like it, and use it with my own kids. It's really cheap, both used and new.

However, I'm a bit concerned about the level of difficulties OP says her son is having. I would try

1. Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. If that seems to be failing and your boy is requiring too many passes over the same material or isn't retaining, switch to

2. All About Reading. If AAR doesn't work, then things start to get expensive. This is pretty much the top level of what you can do at home, IMHO, so the next step is

3. An Orton-Gillingham trained tutor. Work with the OG, replicate what you can at home.  If this isn't working

4. Neuropsych evaluations, vision screening, etc. If still no progress, then it's time to take out a second mortgage on the house and go to

5. Lindamood-Bell, which is *fabulously* expensive but has worked for some extremely dyslexic kids for whom nothing else would.

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