My daughter is an undiagnosed dylexic. We have not got slack for that even though she reads below grade level. She feels stupid alot of times but we are able to work through it. But I have experienced the same type of criticism from many people because we are bi-cutural/racial. With that said I think some times people are just ignorant for what ever reason and even look for reasons to put others down when they don't understand something. Please don't take things like that to heart just keep going on doing what you are doing loving, teaching and raising your child to the best of your ability. When we do this no matter what problems we are faced with our children will be better off even with there difficulties!!!! Mommas you all inspire me to be BETTER!

Rod and staff has a wonderful spanish preschool program that could easily be used right along side the english one. It is very inexpensive but you do need to know how to speak spanish as well as read it because the teachers manuels are written in Spanish. It uses the sylubus way of teaching which is the most common way spanish is taught to natives. MA ME MI MO MU So you could pair it with any reading curriculum in english that teaches that way. This is the way we taught both of our bilinguel children to read. This is also what I will use for my youngest that is just now 13 months. Blessings, Jennifer

My son has decided he wants to go to college. He will be in the 8th grade this year. He needs to ramp up his skills though because for college to become a reality he will need scholarships. What curriculum do you suggest and why? He wants to be a music major but that may change between now and then. Blessings, Jennifer

Did have 50 and it took 24 hours after getting to post!

We have insurance with a $5500 deductable so I can definetly understand But God has always taken care of us sometimes not at the places we think he should but that ok.

Thank you so much I am going to check that out!!

I need to know how to fix this. Thanks Ladies in advance for helping.

I have a little one tha just turned 1 and Ds#1 13 yrs and Dd 11 years old. The past year we just kind of did school when ever we could with both of them doing as much as they could by them selves. DS#1 could do lots more than DD because of her dyslexia but in either case they did what they could and we will fill in the gaps later. My plan for this year is to where ds#2 alot, use toys, books and other things to ocupy him while we are schooling (things he can only use during school hours) use nap time and evening time if needed. We also nurse and co sleep. I do try and let him sleep in his bed during naps. He still takes 2 a day. One in the moring for about 1 1/2 hours and one in the evening for 30 minutes to 1 hour. Please let us know what ends up working for you.

That was a bold way to deal with this!!!

We are working on a computer fluency program call reading assistant. This will be our first month using it. We have used read naturally. They have a program that is for home use called One minute reader. It is not a expensive. My daughter did enough them.

We have also used earobics with success.

DD loves audio books and looking into getting a kindle for her birthday. Hopefully this will be getting her reading some harder books and can get the pronounciation when needed.

Thanks ladies! I have begun to work on fluency with a number of different ways. Also my DD did not learn to read with sight words. Actually she learned to read in Spanish first which is done by syllabus and then we switched to English. Maybe we started English to soon. I think maybe she needed more practice in Spanish. I am going to begin to work with her on all these things mentioned. Thanks agian and any more suggestions are welcomed!

Poor translation does happen alot but I have found that the more recently translated things seem to be better then some of the older stuff.

Same here!! Maybe some one else can help. My be I don't have 50 threads yet. Need to check!

Cubo has most of there stuff in spanish also.

Didn't give were this is.

Christian book distributors also have quite a few spanish books. Mostly are also translated from English.

I find myself in the same predicament. Switching all the time!

Can you tell me more about these dot patterns? Is there a web site. I have never heard of this before. Also if you don't mind to expand on the highlighters I would epreciate it. I am new to all of this.

We have used a number of curriculums. Honestly to many to list but I will say with my daughter the difference has been made when I am really to do the work and add those extra multi sensory activities in. It doesn't matter what curriculum we use we also have to tweek. I would also be interested in seeing the response of the other ladies here. We did use Wilson with her to teach reading. It was good. I liked that it worked. We tried language tune up kit on the computer and that did not go well as it took alot of time to finish a lesson. Don't think I have been very much help but other will be I am sure.

Well siad. I two have felt that pull to think I am not doing enough for one or the other. Maybe I should just be thankful I am able to do what I do!

Does slow retrieval ever get better?

Before we started Wilson we had her evaluated for vision therapy and she was not a candidate. We had thought about having her tested but can't afford the cost. As someone already mentioned it doesn't really matter to us if she is diagnosed or not just want to help her succeed. Her writing in not bad and spelling is good.

Ok so here is our situation. My daughter is 10 years old. She will be 11 next month. A couple years after starting official school we noticed she was not progressing very well in English reading. Was progressing better in spanish. So we started using Wilson in 3rd grade. She did well with it and seemed to progress. In the 4th grade we continued to do phonics and fluency practice with OMR. At this point when we go through the cards on Wilson she knows all of the basic sounds, welded sounds, vowels sounds (although she still has a little trouble when the short vowel in used in a word but usually self corrects) ect. She knows how and when to split up a word. Can sound out just about anything when it is just an isolated word but seems to get fustrated when reading a book. I tested her in Wilson with the diagnosted test about 10 weeks ago and she got up to the 8th subset could have gone on but got tired of reading. Here is what she is still doing while reading a book 1. Still reverses b and d. 2. Is still pretty slow. 3. Has trouble with sight words a, the, was, when, then, and what. She switches them. 4.Guesses at words instead of sounding them out (she only does this when reading a book not when we are working with individual words) 5. Gets fustrated with herself for not reading more fluent. She is currently working on reading Charlotte's Web ( I think this is at 4.9g grade level). She does ok with it but there are words that she does not know but when she is reading independently I have her sound out the words as best as she can. If she can get them great if not she marks them with a highlighter and goes on then we read together the words she missed and the chapter. We practice reading together and fluency. My question is if she knows all of the rules ect. do I still keep working with Wilson or do I just keep working on fluency and do reviews lesson every once and awhile? Let me know what you think. By the way she has never been officially tested.