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Thanks, Terabith! Makes me feel better knowing it's almost normal for him to have trouble with this part of education.
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oh yes, he is very verbal. he can talk all day about his pretend play or some information he wants to give you. but when he's asked a question, sometimes his answers do not make sense, or it's kind of....cryptic and you have to translate. but this problem occurs only with independent thought. when he's relaying information he's very understandable and articulate.
as far as grammar, he's nowherte near understanding that, but i do not think he can really even grasp the concept of a sentence yet. he does well in school and can decipher reading activities like "who rode the bike in the story" and answer with phrases or one word answers.
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Prayed for you guys! Poor kid.
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Language, that is. He's doing well in Wordly Wise and in MUS Alpha. He reads above his grade level (he's 8, in the 3rd grade). But the light is just NOT on when it comes to English and it's workings. I know it's abstract, but how is he going to be able to progress if he does not even get the concept of writing a sentence? He is quite bright and articulate. He just doesn't look it on paper.
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I honestly don't think it enters most peoples' line of thinking to homeschool. So they accept way too much as "just the way things are". Not that most parents would not turn into bears when their child is threatened, but I think when it's not harming their child directly, most people are less activist.
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I'm a total outsider here, but I am a conservative Christian and did not join the forum discussions sooner because of hostility that I saw when I first happened upon this board. I am happy to report that, at least to this outsider, this forum board seems a lot friendlier than before. ;)
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I have typed out what we did this year for history and posted it on a forum with my friends on it. It was just dates and what books we used for those dates, but it's worked excellently for us this year! :)
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Wow! Definitely a "mathy"! My kids surprise me with things like that sometimes and it really is SO fun to see!
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I would have voted for rod and staff too! :)
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Many sites have their own placement tests for things. Teaching textbooks is one of the sites that has one, and it's a math cirriculum. Not the most affordable, but you can find it used. For affordability, Rod and Staff is one of the best for the cost.
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Yeah--has to be post bomb. All this smacks of parallel universes....and I am just at a loss as to how it will all be knit together.
Something HAD to have happened with the bomb! I was just hoping Juliet was going to live, however it went down.
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It's a pretty amazing show!
One question I have: if the idland is on the bottom of the ocean, how are the losties ON the island?
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i have to make a commitment to finishing a certain book and then i do it literally every free minute--in the bathroom, while nursing, waiting in a parking lot, sitting watching the kids at the park, etc.
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mindlessly clicking and looking very much forward to LOST!
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oh, i know how that is! my dh is in the military and we have always lived in shoe boxes until now. he's made enough rank that we get a HUGE new house and now....we have nothing to fill up the house! lol! but yes, i've been there and agree with pp that once you pare down enough, it can get discouraging when there's still not enough space for the basics.
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have to second (or 3rd?) teaching textbooks. my visual possibly dyslexic daughter loves it.
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Thanks, Merry!
I did not see an option for a child's being labeled "dyslexic" in the scoring portion of the test, only degrees of need for phonics instruction. But I did not read the part that you posted here. It felt a little like "you messed up somewhere" on that site, but I do see their point for importance of phonics instruction.
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elizabeth b--it seems as though that test you linked denies the existence of dyslexia? from what i could see, it calls it an "acquired behavior". just interesting to see people who deny it's legitimacy and those who absolutely believe in it. the people who put out that test seem to think it is something that happened as a result of not receiving proper phonics instruction early on. i know that's not the case here, but i can see how that could be the case if one did not learn decoding early.
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thank you!
i am glad to learn that $660 is a good price. maybe i can get my dh to agree to it if he knows it's a deal. have not priced the barton system yet. i guess i am in for sticker shock? :tongue_smilie:
i tried to have my DD tested through the school system. i was told by them that dyslexia does not exist and that she would be tested for LDs, which she did was not found to have. at this point i am trying to see if she could see our son's neuro psych if she does testing. not sure. thanks for all the email loop recs!
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This is what I heard from the evaluator over the phone yesterday. I got the number from Susan Barton's site and the woman called me back and did a pretest over the phone. DD2 had 30 of the 34 signs of dyslexia that she asked me about. So.....here's the deal:
It's going to cost $660 to get her tested. The woman's full thing--testing, a report, resources, etc was going to be $1540, but when she remembered I was a homeschooler she told me she could just do the testing and less of a report for $660. My dh had a small cow. So we are NOT going to get her tested. I'd love to formally know, because, you know, it's unethical for the evaluator to give me a diagnosis without formally testing DD, but she was so sure from what we had talked about, that she said if we had to choose between getting her tested and doing tutoring, she recommended tutoring. My dh said we should just go ahead and treat her like she's dyslexic and get her the materials/cirriculum/etc to help her.
I know Barton has a "system". Is this for professional tutors, or could I get it? Is there anything else that is great for dyslexics as far as readin' writin' 'rithmetic goes? I was planning on doing Teaching Textbooks math with her, and when she saw her sister doing hers, she begged to do it. I think I will always insist on her reading readers. She may not get every word right, but she gets enough right that she can at least give me some detail about the story.
Any advice? TIA!
ETA: I also fully bellieve she has dysgraphia. Horrible penmanship, horrible spelling, even with words she's known for years.
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thanks, Lizzy! it helps to know my child is not the only one. :)
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thanks, Merry!
the move is overwhelming but going well. :)
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thanks to everyone!
i'm just getting back to this after awhile because we were moving, but i thought i'd come share something else to see if it gives any more insight: DD2 does not just mispronounce words she reads, but also words she hears. for example, my husband took her to walmart, and, as a treat, got her some whoppers. she had to run in to tell me because this is a big deal, and she said "daddy got me some woopers!!". confused, i asked her to clarify, and she went on describing these "woopers". she said her friend had told her about them and she wanted to try them. so she mispronounced the word she heard, and, even when my husband corrected her and she had read it on the package, she still got it wrong. she does this alot--just can't remember how words are pronlounced. and the friend who told her about them would not have mispronounced it--she's a very articulate, older child.
so anyway, don't know if that gives anyone another idea, or solidifies "dyslexia" as what this looks like, but i thought i'd mention it. i am looking up all the books and links posted here, so i really appreciate the info given!
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congrats on the baby!
we have 6 and homeschool year round for this very reason. one can never tell when a break MUST happen, therefore i feel its best for us to never really stop. lol. plus, we live in las vegas, so in the summer it is too hot to do anything outside anyway. i say workbooks and readers for the kiddos that can handle it with your doing history,science and anything else you do when you can catch a moment with baby sleeping or in a particularly good mood. this can go on for as long as it needs to, since i have found olders can get work done pretty well on their own and can even help teach youngers (contrary to putting my 11YO DD in a "mothering" position, i find it makes her feel more mature and she really likes to do it. i feign hesitation when she asks with an "um....well, okay". lol!).
ITA with a routine's ability to keep all happy here! i honestly dread breaks! too many pinging children! lol.
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we are switching from Beta to TT4. i LOVE MUS. LOVE it. but, my very visual daughter is really jealous of her older sister's TT program, so into TT4 we go. i think both programs are great.