Well, there are the Stanford Spectrum books but I'm not sure how quickly they will get to you. I think I'd just go over fractions if I were you. Fractions are a huge topic of 5th grade (most schools spend something like 5 months on them) so they will definitely be on a 5th grade test and if you saw ds miss them, that would be where I'd start.

Yes, mostly primary sources with a little bit of secondary history. But since Human Odyssey is narrative, this format makes a good history contrast for that age.

As far as notes and note taking go, my boys' neuropsych stated that they both would qualify for professor notes or to have a note-taker in class with them through the student services office. I will still teach them note-taking, likely with technology and Notability or a Live Scribe pen, but note taking for them is going to look different simply because of their dx and that is just a reality that will have to be accommodated.

For the 13-14 y.o., what about the Pages fromHistory/A History in Documents series? For your time frame, you would probably be looking at The Early American Republic, The Bill of Rights, The Struggle Against Slavery, and The Civil War. You could also go with The Gilded Age if you want to end just a bit later.

This may not be a popular opinion, but I agree with you. I did not accommodate my children until I had written documentation of their abilities and difficulties. I do have that info now, so my 8 y.o. uses Immersion Reading for longer books of interest, he types dictations, and I often scribe for him in writing and math. He also uses a 100s chart and a large multiplication chart up to 25 x 25. I'm about to get him started using Kidspiration either this summer or fall to start organizing his writing composition and for various other bigger projects. I do virtually all comprehension questions orally for both history and science. We discuss naturally and have moved to a Socratic dialogue style. It works better for everyone and there is no issue of writing getting in the way of thinking. I don't really see the necessity of writing comprehension questions in elementary anyway.

I actually love HST+ but yes, there is a learning curve. I was lucky that I did a lot of work for my dad's engineering firm one summer and learned a ton about databases, which I think overall has made it easier for me to pick up and stick with HST+. I can do all of the above with HST+ and I love that I can reschedule items easily.

This is mine too. My ds has mostly done a lot of hands-on things varying with his interests. We did get him a programming tutor this year when he expressed interest, and that has been one of the best things about his year. Learning this stuff from a 20 y.o. male computer science major is much cooler apparently. They've also done fun things like take apart computers and look RAM to check out how the programming works with hardware. If you can afford it and find a good one, that would be my recommendation. Ds has expressed that he is again interested in robotics (he took a break from that for a couple of years) so we might pursue something with that in fall too. Mostly his coursework will be interest based for science and keeping up with the math. He will be doing a physics (again!) elective in the fall online. I think we've done physics with him every year in some form.

My very spatial dyslexic did incredibly well with Cursive First, which uses a clock. It is not going quite as well for my not as spatial dyslexic who reverses everything in cursive or print.

They meant by using an e-book on an e-reader and just allowing the child to enlarge the font to whatever size they liked.

Yes, most definitely. :)

Not our experience at all. Both my kids struggle with full page reading and bail sometimes. Less often than they used to, but definitely common enough. Neither is ASD and one is so not ASD that it has never come up once as something to even evaluate. According to our evals this can very much happen with dyslexia alone and is less likely to happen when you can enlarge the font. Sometimes the visual crowding of words on a full page is enough to make a dyslexic just give up.

Thanks. Not in response to you. No worries. :)

I've read Dyslexic Advantage. Are they substantially different? I do see how some of these traits can be very helpful in careers as adults but gosh darn they are hard in the day-to-day narrower world of childhood sometimes. Add in the SPD, and my kids aren't very good at the things most kids are expected to enjoy and excel in like sports, school, performing arts, etc. Sometimes I can't wait until the big, wide world opens up to them as they get older and there are more choices. At the same time, I really don't want to wish this time away.

Heading out to deal with family emergency. Thanks for all your thoughts and hugs!

Thanks for your all thoughts. Have had another family emergency come up so I need to be available to the extended family. I will process what you all have had to say over the next few days. :)

The grade level equivalent is not a working grade level score though - it is how a student *in that grade level* would score on this X level test. So how a 7th grader would score on the 4th grade test, not whether a 4th grader is performing like a 7th grader. It is a strange distinction. I actually find that category of information rather unhelpful.

Are you meaning you want a functional working grade level? As in, child is working at grade level 3.5 instead of 87% for 2nd graders? If so, you can get that information by scaling MAP scores, but the MAP is usually only available through PS or virtual charter school. The WIAT will give you that kind of information too, but a psychologist will have to administer and score it. The regular standardized tests will pretty much only give you percentile scores. Although if a student is in the 90% range for the ITBS, you know they have mastered grade level material. It won't necessarily tell you if they are capable of performing at that level on higher grade material though.

No one contacts you. You fill out the form and have immediate access to the sample, just like with Calvert. You can even enter a fake phone number if you want to be sure you are not called. ;) I've never had to wait for contact to get samples.

I would absolutely expect my money back from a B&M store in this situation. I worked in retail and this is a common practice called price adjustment. Most major retailers will honor the sale pricing with a refund for the difference if the item was purchased with 7 days of a sale. It is a fairly standard practice for companies who want to maintain customer service.

Yes, this. This is a genuinely difficult decision for some of us with kids born in a couple month span because of so many factors and varying cutoffs for organizations. I don't think judgements should be made either way. There are days I really wish I had never had a late summer baby. It would have been so much easier if he had been born in any month other than July or August.

Sorry, but I think you are way off base here. I know several dyslexic/dysgraphics who write in all caps because they actually cannot remember how to write lowercase without reversals otherwise. This could be a symptom of an LD that you know nothing about and as long as you can understand his system, I think you should be more compassionate. It may have absolutely nothing to do with sloppy teaching and everything to do with brain processing.

Fraction mastery is Singapore 5A, decimals is 5B, percents is 5B, and negative numbers is in 6B, I think. You'll probably have to re-assess the skills and topics once the BA books are out and completed. I know older ds would have needed a lot more work on fractions than what is in BA too, so it will probably depend some on the child. We also had to do additional practice on long division.

It is written for high school. IMHO, it would work for advanced middle schoolers but preview for appropriate topics (Lewis & Clark lesson, for example).

It is very expensive, but I think you are looking for Rewards Intermediate. I'm using it with my 2nd kid and it was so successful that after moving away and trying other less expensive options, I bit the bullet and bought the extensions and next levels too. It has increased both boys' reading fluency that much.

My rising third grader will be doing the following for his LA: Morphology/phonics (this includes some vocab too with the prefixes & suffixes) Reading Fluency practice Spelling Copywork Writing composition & grammar integrated Literature (reading & discussing with Mom) We also do family read alouds and poetry during our Morning Meeting but these are the individual areas of his LA. He has a few outside classes I would qualify under LA too - puppetry & literature and Greek & Roman mythology.