1st grader dyslexia how much to push?

amother

↑ OP ↓

Mon, Jan 13 2025, 7:18 pm

amother Pewter wrote:

I don't know what methods they are using but dyslexia needs very specific methods of teaching to read. Using an ineffective method will breed extra problems.

Are they using a specific method or just regular tutoring?

Yes they’re all very trained.
The Hebrew is under a new Kria program that trains the providers in dyslexia

And the English tutor is not orton gilingham trained, but she receives supervision from someone who is

amother

↑ OP

Mon, Jan 13 2025, 7:19 pm

amother Seafoam wrote:

Smart mouth is a fun game for phonics/phonemic awareness

I like to make my own Go Fish games with the words we are working on.

I think if I make my own game it’s gonna feel like I’m pushing him to read. I’ll look into smart mouth thanks

amother

Seablue

Mon, Jan 13 2025, 7:21 pm

Hi.
Definitely will progress faster with practice, but if it's a negative experience, the negativity will spill over to the sessions as well as well as the overall feeling towards the therapy.

I'm wondering if you can do a timer method of 1 minute practice several times a week and see how that goes. But in general, not everyone does homework. If they do, it goes faster and better, but if they are that resistent, they shouldn't. I would say that I fully support the therapist's recommendation but it may not be worth fighting over. It has to be positive.

ESPECIALLY at that age, think of the load he's putting in in school. He's working hard enough, dyslexia is a journey that you go on. You'll get there when you get there.

amother

Mint

Mon, Jan 13 2025, 8:33 pm

amother OP wrote:

I would love games, like a card or board game type that doesn’t feel like he’s forced to read

I used to homeschool my kids, and I taught 4/5 of them how to read (my youngest is only 4). Some of them I barely had to teach before they got it, others I had to get creative with games and curricula.

So, a game for reading practice is Blah Blah Blah. They probably can't say it in the ad copy, but it's basically Uno with phonics. There's 3 levels of cards, and the basic level is just three letter words with short vowels, and it's great at practicing beginning-middle-ending sounds and blending. When he knows more vowel combinations, the other two levels are good practice.

A game that might make him want to read is Apples to Apples Jr. Jewish Edition, and he can team up with a friend/family member that can help him read the cards and explain some of the concepts.

If you don't mind going on Reddit, this thread about homeschooling 1st grade reading also has some good ideas (https://old.reddit.com/r/homeschool/comments/1ft1i85/games_for_1st_grade_reading_skills/) - I've used both Teach Your Monster and Reading Eggs. Teach your Monster goes slower, Reading Eggs faster. I've also used resources from Measured Mom that's mentioned in the thread. I hadn't seen the Switch It game mentioned before, but it looks good, too!

amother

Nectarine

Mon, Jan 13 2025, 8:49 pm

Hi OP, ds is now 18 but thinking back, I don't think I ever practiced reading with him, in addition to his tutors. That was for English, for kria we probably did 5 to 10 minutes a day, not more.

We sat together, and I read to him. In third grade, when I felt he was capable of reading on his own, he had to read one sentence per page and I read the rest. One sentence felt very do-able, and it didn't detract from the story.

This was Harry Potter iirc. Eventually we took turns reading every other paragraph, or he read a sentence and I read a paragraph, and slowly worked our way up until he decided I read too slowly and wanted to finish the book on his own.

For now I would focus on making reading positive by reading to him. Hatzlocha.

syz123

Mon, Jan 13 2025, 9:05 pm

I would recommend Moose Materials. They align with OG and are super fun to play . I used them in my resource room and I play these games with my preservice teachers . Kids love snatch and crazy moose the most. Ask the teacher what patterns he is working on and get the corresponding skill.

Games would be the way to go and also hire a tutor. Don’t teach your kid to read - it’s too hard on your relationship .

https://www.teacherspayteacher.....rials

seeker

Mon, Jan 13 2025, 9:38 pm

See if you can get someone else to work or "play" with him. When I was in high school this was my chessed job. It can be a neighbor, an older sibling, a young aunt, if you have the means a hired helper. You/the specialist would provide the material. The novelty of a guest doing it makes it more fun for the kid (use a sticker chart too) and whether or not it works, it won't be emotionally tied up in the parent/child relationship.

out-of-towner

Mon, Jan 13 2025, 9:59 pm

If it gives you any Chizzuk at all, my dyslexic child who was held back in 2nd grade (we moved to a different city that year and it made the most sense that way) who was barely reading even after 2nd grade 2.0, is now a 5th grader reading adult books BH.

They will get there. The skills will come IYH.

amother

Molasses

Yesterday at 6:46 am

DD had really bad case of dyslexia - started reading in 4th grade. When she was younger, we had two prize books - Hebrew and English, and she could choose to read from one or both (or neither) for a small prize. We also had games we played, few times a week, I would play a game she wanted and in return she played a game I picked. I do not remember all the books and games already, but I can look them up if you want to.

amother

Apple

Yesterday at 8:33 am

My son had something like this. Here’s what helped in the end. I put salt on a plastic plate and had him draw the letters with his fingers. Also works with a stick in dirt, or shaving cream on a desk. It really helped him.

We shaped every Aleph Bais letter into a theme (Alligator Aleph, Basketball Bais, I forgot Gimmel, Doorknob Daled, Hopping Hey, Very Straight Vav, Zig Zag Zayin, Chanukiah Ches - put candles on top, Taffy Tes - with a Laffy Taffy rope, Yarmulke Yud, Candy Kaf - the dot is a Candy to clear his throat, without it he becomes - Congestive Heart Failure Chaf - always saying ch and clearing his throat).

I bought a large picture puzzle with the Alef Bais letters and we did it together.

Then for the reading part, we had a piece of Candy on every word (tiny piece, like a third of a Haribo).

For English it was much easier because I love reading to kids and I read him a ton of books. The first Friday of Covid, before the libraries closed, we went and got a massive amount of books, especially nonfiction like extreme weather or marine exploration, and grown up books like The Mixed Up Files of Basil E Frankweiler, and I just read them to him. He also liked mysteries so I took out Cam Jansen and Encyclopedia Brown.

Eventually he started reading on his own because his older brother was going through the Harry Potter series and I didn’t have patience to read that to him. I also made it somewhat of “forbidden fruit” because I said - oh, I don’t know if I should let him read this, he’s only 7. So he was chomping at the bit to read it.