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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The folks here complaining because their kids are oh so advanced need to take a deep breath. One DC has always read probably 4-5 years above grade level, another has great challenges reading but is very talented in other ways.

Both children benefited from rigorous phonics education. Sure, the first one may have skated by with learning to read by themselves, but they benefitted from a true understanding of word structure from phonics.

But this whole line that your first grader reading Harry Potter can’t benefit from phonics is a little silly.[/quote]

The folks claiming that  what worked for their kid will work for every kid need to take a deep breath.

My kid with ADHD and dyslexia hated phonics instruction and it turned him off to reading.  What saved him was a DCPS elementary teacher who told us to keep reading to him, listening to audiobooks, letting him read books like Captain Underpants and Calvin and Hobbes silently, and allowing him to spell phonetically.  As predicted, he figured out reading and, slightly later, spelling.  Now he’s a literature major who complains that professors don’t allow enough pages in his writing assignments to really dig into topics.  Not saying this is a recommended approach, but it worked for my kid.

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Your child is the absolute exception if they truly are dyslexic.  I am a Orton Gillingham certified reading interventionist with 20 years of experience.  Research is clear that structured programs like OG or Wilson are highly successful at helping people with dyslexia learn how to read.  In my personal experience, people with reading difficulties do not learn to read by listening to audiobooks and reading graphic novels.  Read "Overcoming Dylexia."  It explains the science behind the dyslexic brain.[/quote]

NP.  Ok but what gets me are the vocal parents at our school with kids with dyslexia.  All they want is phonics, phonics, phonics at the cost of all else. We already have a string phonics program and it’s just one aspect of the ELA curriculum but not the be all and end all.  But to them it is.

I can’t even have a discussion with some of them about other aspects of balanced literary.  They don’t get that it’s not all about their kid. The school is not focusing on 1 kid, they are focusing on what is good for the group and the majority of kids don’t have dyslexia AND there is already a phonics program in place. [/quote]

And the school is providing push in services for dyslexia too[/quote]

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