DS has struggled for a long, long time to find some fluency. He's reading ok, better than some, not as well as others, but with each and every word (even the ones we started sounding out a year ago, like cat) needing to be painfully sounded out.
Anything on the iPad is much more fun for him, so last week I started putting some OPG lessons on it. (We've been using ETC, but I decided to take a break from it just to change it up.) I challenged him to a race - to see if my stylus could underline the sentence before he read it. The winner of reading time wins a prize.
Dude, seriously. For now, this is the best. thing. ever. For a kid that turns everything into a competition with his little brother, this is what he needs. I go slow enough to let him win, but fast enough that he doesn't have time to sound out each letter for every word. It worked like magic today and he earned a sparkle pen to do his math. We'll see how long the fun of the challenge lasts for him. Hopefully, it will help increase his fluency in the words that I know he's read frequently!