Thank you EVERYONE! I feel like I have wonderful tools and advice to look through on this post that have offered a lot of help to me. We’re still trucking along. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thank you! I hear you. In all truthfulness it is lack of motivation. I see what he can do when he is fully motivated and applies himself. I’m just frustrated and feeling like I have failed my child along the way. I guess it happens on this homeschooling journey because I can only blame myself. He does know all the sounds and blend sounds very well. It’s words he can’t fluently put words together even after having read them through the lesson. I don’t want to rush through anything and quite frankly I don’t ever want him to fall behind because I’m not teaching him right which is I guess at the end of the day what I’m afraid of. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks for the lengthy and informative response. I will keep this in mind if nothing seems to move along in the next few months. He has not had his visit on checked but we probably will as we both are glasses wearers. As far as ADHD symptoms no I don’t suspect that. I honestly believe part is laziness as he would rather be playing than be under “school mode†We are also doing Explode the Code, we just finished book 1 and started book 2. He does these independently and enjoys them thoroughly. He is still writing some letter backwards (which I hear is normal for some kids especially boys at this age) Handwriting is messy but mostly uniform. We’ve been using HWOT for handwriting which again I love but he seems to do whatever he wants unless I’m supervising him directly he will forgo directions we just went over and start to write letters and numbers from the bottom instead of the top. You’ve given me a lot to think about. Part of me is freaking out wondering if I’ve missed signs of dyslexia. When he focuses though and scrolls through this word letter by letter he can read it correctly. The guessing is because he is rushing. He has incredible reading comprehension I’ve learned that even more this year as we are going through classics and doing narrations. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We’re six weeks into first grade. We’ve been using OPGTR since K we started from the very beginning. Currently we’re on lesson 60 as we did get behind last year when I had his little brother and I’ve also been using McGuffey readers this school year to add variety. My son gets overwhelmed as soon as he sees the long paragraphs awaiting him at the end of the lesson (this is why I’ve slowed down on using OPGTR) He seems to immediately shut down. It’s very sad for me. He stills sounds out about 80% of what he reads. He guesses a lot when he reads because he loses focus easily on this subject. I have a few questions. Should he be reading with more fluency at this point? Would it be harmful to his reading development that I not make him read the paragraphs at the end of every lesson? What am I doing wrong? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk