Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter was deemed a poor reader in 1st grade. What I did was I read to her every Sunday for HOURS.

By middle school she was the fastest reader in the class. She won her schools English Award 1st of 60. In HS, she scored a 760 on verbal SAT.


Fast forward 15 years and she’s applying to law school.

TL;DR-

Kids grow at different rates. Read read read as much as you can with your kid. It will probably work out.

Unless she is dyslexic!! Read the OP.

If the kid is dyslexic, she will need private tutoring to learn to read. The sooner you start the cheaper it will be.

+2. I remember a coworker telling me I just needed to read to my dyslexic child more! Lol

+3 As mom of one kid with dyslexia and two without, the differences in their underlying ability to learn to read could not be more stark.

OP, my understanding of that requirement is that it would not apply to students with documented learning disability. Keep working with him, of course, but I wouldn't be concerned about retention at this point.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter was deemed a poor reader in 1st grade. What I did was I read to her every Sunday for HOURS.

By middle school she was the fastest reader in the class. She won her schools English Award 1st of 60. In HS, she scored a 760 on verbal SAT.


Fast forward 15 years and she’s applying to law school.

TL;DR-

Kids grow at different rates. Read read read as much as you can with your kid. It will probably work out.

Unless she is dyslexic!! Read the OP.

If the kid is dyslexic, she will need private tutoring to learn to read. The sooner you start the cheaper it will be.

+2. I remember a coworker telling me I just needed to read to my dyslexic child more! Lol

Anonymous wrote:My daughter was deemed a poor reader in 1st grade. What I did was I read to her every Sunday for HOURS.

By middle school she was the fastest reader in the class. She won her schools English Award 1st of 60. In HS, she scored a 760 on verbal SAT.


Fast forward 15 years and she’s applying to law school.

TL;DR-

Kids grow at different rates. Read read read as much as you can with your kid. It will probably work out.

look I'm never going to disagree with net positives of reading to children. But let's be real, children with learning disabilities need extra targeted supports. IEPs exist for a reason.

You need to work with him every day for 30 minutes on reading. If he does sight words, read with him and point to every word, flash cards, fun apps, etc.

Anonymous wrote:My daughter was deemed a poor reader in 1st grade. What I did was I read to her every Sunday for HOURS.

By middle school she was the fastest reader in the class. She won her schools English Award 1st of 60. In HS, she scored a 760 on verbal SAT.


Fast forward 15 years and she’s applying to law school.

TL;DR-

Kids grow at different rates. Read read read as much as you can with your kid. It will probably work out.

Unless she is dyslexic!! Read the OP.

If the kid is dyslexic, she will need private tutoring to learn to read. The sooner you start the cheaper it will be.

My daughter was deemed a poor reader in 1st grade. What I did was I read to her every Sunday for HOURS.

By middle school she was the fastest reader in the class. She won her schools English Award 1st of 60. In HS, she scored a 760 on verbal SAT.


Fast forward 15 years and she’s applying to law school.

TL;DR-

Kids grow at different rates. Read read read as much as you can with your kid. It will probably work out.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this was a state recommendation and then they backtracked. So you do not have to worry on that front at least.

More on this here: https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/marylands-proposed-reading-retention-policy-adjusted-to-offer-parents-more-control-carey-right-third-grade-reading-retention-msde

"After receiving 'close to 1,000 comments of explicit feedback' from the public, MSDE, this week, adjusted the policy. The new language still retains students who are not reading at grade level. But parents would now have the right to 'waive' a school district’s decision to keep the child in third grade, as long as the parent approves additional academic supports – such as summer school."

Parents should not be allowed to waive the school districts recommendation unless the student is coded as Spec Ed and not on the graduation track. Otherwise, there should be a group of students who are identified as being on the cusp for whom additional academic summer support would likely bring them up to grade level and those be notified as being required to participate in summer academic support or be retained.

By the end of third grade families and districts need to get on-board with education and interventions.

Anonymous wrote:I think this was a state recommendation and then they backtracked. So you do not have to worry on that front at least.

More on this here: https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/marylands-proposed-reading-retention-policy-adjusted-to-offer-parents-more-control-carey-right-third-grade-reading-retention-msde

"After receiving 'close to 1,000 comments of explicit feedback' from the public, MSDE, this week, adjusted the policy. The new language still retains students who are not reading at grade level. But parents would now have the right to 'waive' a school district’s decision to keep the child in third grade, as long as the parent approves additional academic supports – such as summer school."

MCPS is not keeping kids back. It’s too expensive for them. They’ll fund a way to promote them.

I think this was a state recommendation and then they backtracked. So you do not have to worry on that front at least.

If a parent disagrees with retention, they can enroll their child in a remedial reading program within MCPS. I don’t remember much else that I heard about this. But as a parent of a child who didn’t read until 6th grade, I can tell you that school is really hard if you’re not reading by 3rd grade. That’s where it switches from learning to read to reading to learn.

My son did learn to read but remedial reading wasn’t offered until 6th when he was in school and even then it wasn’t enough. We had to do private.

I know it’s hard but you might want to relook at your budget to see if you can find the money for private services.

There's a lot going on in this post. The most important issue is that you are going to need to cite your source for mcps doing a full court retention approach at third grade. I'm aware of one state that has taken that approach but it was paired with intense reading support in the earlier grades. Neither the intense support nor the retention have been mentioned in any public documents that I've seen from mcps.

Retention will be the last resort and I highly doubt it will include students with learning disabilities. Kids really need to be held back in kindergarten and 1st grade where foundational skills need to be mastered. 3rd grade is too late.

I hear that MCPS passes and approved that if a 3rd graders cannot pass reading test on certain level, they have to repeat 3rd grades. It is said that it will be fully implemented in 2027/2028. I am worried because my kid is likely dyslexia and he is a kindergartener now. We paid a few thousands to get him private evaluated because he is a special need child mainstream, but he is too young to be evaluated for any learning or reading disorder. He has IEP. As of now, IEP does not think he has learning disability because he is not expected to read any word by the end of kindergarten year. Private reading tutor is too expensive, and insurance won't cover for it.

I know there are still time before 2027/2028, what happens if he can't meet the minimum reading level by the end of 3rd grade? I don't have confidence that he can read bob book by the end of kindergarten year. He only recognizes a few words by pure memorization. Any free or cheap resources that MCPS may help those kids before they are required to repeat 3rd grade?