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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think any teachers say this. In my experience teachers tend to be optimistic and take a wait and see approach unless there are major, obvious problems. The problem with that situation is that parents are blindsided later on and then it takes much more effort to catch up. [/quote]

I mostly agree with this.

Separately, 1:1 or 1:2 is - by far - the best way to teach early reading. Only 1 kid can read out loud to the teacher at a time.  With 25-30 kids in a 1st grade public school class, there just is not enough time to teach anything 1:1 or 1:2.

So teachers do what they can to present the material, given the class sizes and instructional setup School Administration gives them. Some kids will pick it up, but other kids will not, in that kind of setting.

At later grades if a kid is not reading at least minimally, and that might be very minimal indeed, then the kid should get identified for pull-outs with a reading specialist. But, by the time that happens, the damage is done and the kid is way way behind. Catch up is much much harder than keep up.  [/quote]

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