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  1. Sight words and whole word methods actually first started with the Germans and the French in the 1800's, then spread to English, the Germans retained their sanity and went back to phonics. I'm not sure what the French are currently doing. They came out of whole language practices, they are based on high frequency words. Only a few are actually irregular, that was the excuse for teaching them as wholes. My sight word page explains, but the link with more about the history is broken: http://thephonicspage.org/On Reading/sightwords.html Everyone use to use syllabic phonics before the 1800's, with Latin first and then the language you spoke. German and Spanish are well suited for syllabic phonics, here is a bit more about syllabic phonics with some links to past and present syllabic phonics books in English, German, and Spanish. Russian is also suited to syllabic phonics, and it's useful in English and French as well but best suited to languages like German and Spanish, also likely Italian. https://infogalactic.com/info/Syllabic_phonics
  2. Good luck at your appointment tomorrow! I would bring in a paper list with questions and concerns and a summary so you can make sure you don't forget anything or get sidetracked when they ask questions. Paper so you can hand it to them if you run out of time. Before you go, I would read through this article I wrote about how balanced literacy causes guessing problems and how to fix them: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/building-good-reading-habits-liz-brown/ Spelling remediation and guessing problems lag phonics remediation. You definitely are going to want to over-learn the phonics and do nonsense words to help with the guessing. My program does a bit of spelling and also works on phonics of 2 to 7 syllable words. I would start with it. I'll post more about that and what you should do for spelling later.
  3. While there may be something else going on, that also sounds similar to a lot of children I work with that have reading and spelling problems from balanced literacy--sight words, Accelerated Reader, leveled readers, 3 cuing--those all lead to guessing and spelling problems. I have free remedial lessons with nonsense words, they teach phonics to a 12th grade level, the nonsense words help overcome the guessing habits. I would work through the whole thing, then work on spelling. It teaches a bit of spelling rules but the focus is reading and stopping guessing habits: http://thephonicspage.org/On Reading/syllablesspellsu.html You should be able to get a good referral or direction from tricare. We are retired Air Force. You can also talk to your base School Liaison Officer about getting testing through the schools. I would first give him the MWIA 3, the reading grade level test, and the nonsense word tests, tests at the end of the above website link. (Numbers 2, 5, 6.) If the slowdown on the MWIA is more than 20%, I would limit outside reading for a month, read his work to him, books on tape. Sentences trigger the guessing habit--you're less likely to guess when you don't have context to guess from. What is your native language? My ideas for spelling will depend on your native language and if he speaks it or not.
  4. I would just use old tests 5 or 10 questions at a time, have her time each question, you do the same, compare times, review missed problems. The earlier ones take a bit less time than later ones. There is also the SAT Orange Book, a good index tied to all tests so you can do more problems like the ones you missed or the ones you take too long with. https://www.amazon.com/1600-io-SAT-Math-Orange-Book/dp/B08WJZCVD6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1LAT6F8VVHGVF&keywords=sat+orange+book&qid=1648173442&sprefix=sat+orange+book%2Caps%2C110&sr=8-1 The orange book is 2 volumes, index is in vol 2.
  5. Me, too! They are also training teachers in how to teach phonics; they trained a ton last year, and paying for more this year.
  6. There are also I See Sam: http://marriottmd.com/sam/ or https://iseesam.com/reading-for-all-learners-home-education-and-send-home-digital-edition/ and Blend Phonics http://www.donpotter.net/pdf/bplitebooks_small.pdf
  7. TN phonics program, has PreK and K activities, also goes up to 2nd grade. All free to download and print. https://openedx.tneducation.net/courses/course-v1:TDOE+fs101+2020YL/about?mc_cid=cd5ab51d2c&mc_eid=ce1578ed6c&mc_cid=0e04cb86a4&mc_eid=502f6811d6
  8. TN published its new phonics program, K - 2, nice decodable readers. All free to download and print. https://openedx.tneducation.net/courses/course-v1:TDOE+fs101+2020YL/about?mc_cid=cd5ab51d2c&mc_eid=ce1578ed6c&mc_cid=0e04cb86a4&mc_eid=502f6811d6
  9. You're welcome! For reading comprehension, I would work through the CAP Reasoning and Reading. https://classicalacademicpress.com/collections/reasoning-reading You could also build up his stamina and vocabulary with the 1879 McGuffey readers, they have short passages that gradually increase in difficulty and pull from a variety of genres. Each genre has its own most common vocabulary. Start with the 2nd or 3rd reader, whatever is really easy for him but not ridiculous. There are difficult vocabulary words even in the early readers. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5671 You can also get them in hard copy or kindle, you want the blue orange covers, 1879, not the brown Mott media 1828. https://www.amazon.com/McGuffeys-Eclectic-Reader-Illustrated-Readers-ebook/dp/B00GHYKKXK/ref=sr_1_3?crid=P6L6ONB2VQHL&keywords=McGuffey+3rd+reader&qid=1644441475&sprefix=mcguffey+3rd+reader%2Caps%2C109&sr=8-3 The stories are not the best in the early readers, so bad they are funny sometimes, but they have difficult vocabulary marked and defined and are the best thing I've found for gradually improving reading. The later readers have more classic works and aren't as bad. My children actually had more to talk about the worse the were, LOL, no comprehension questions needed, they wanted to talk about how silly/stupid they were. My daughter didn't automatically infer vocabulary from context, I used the McGuffey to help her do that, I had her read definitions before and after at first, then had her try to figure out on her own from context and check at the end. My son just needed general Language Arts improvement, he worked through more of the books than her, he's naturally good at math and science but not reading. After a book and part of one, my daughter didn't need them any more. She's naturally good at English and languages but not math. Science, it depends. She's good at bio, my son not. He's good at physics and chem, she has to work harder with those. The McGuffey passages have comprehension questions starting in the 3rd or 4th reader, I forget which, I never used them because they didn't need them. My daughter had a bit of trouble with comprehension questions that required inference, but I fixed that with CAP Reasoning and Reading, not McGuffey. Interestingly, my son, who is worse at Language Arts overall than my daughter, did not need CAP Reasoning and Reading at all, he never had any comprehension problems.
  10. I would give the MBTI (Myers Briggs) and then google "MBTI career" and "MBTI career choices" and similar. There are certain jobs that are going to be more enjoyable for each MBTI type. An example I found, google for more: https://www.hormona.io/mbti-personalities-career-paths-to-suit-every-type/ MBTI test, if this one is not truly free keep googling until you find a free one: https://www.humanmetrics.com/personality Full book about jobs for each type: https://www.amazon.com/Do-What-You-Are-Personality/dp/0316497142/ref=sr_1_1?crid=X97N1EV73N0Y&keywords=do+what+you+are+paul+tieger&qid=1644377795&sprefix=do+what+you+are+%2Caps%2C118&sr=8-1 Also, jobs in an adjacent block might be a good fit as well. For example, I am an INTP and many of the INTJ jobs are a good fit. I did a bunch of different things in high school and then in the Air Force, and everything I enjoyed the most or sounded like I would, was in or near my MBTI block. Another interesting book with a bit about the MBTI and job fit, she shows them arranged by block: https://www.amazon.com/Gifts-Differing-Understanding-Personality-Type-ebook/dp/B0047T7MQU/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2VM9B7RRF9C9D&keywords=gifts+differing+by+isabel+briggs+myers&qid=1644377889&sprefix=gifts+differing%2Caps%2C108&sr=8-1 I linked the Kindle version of the Gifts Differing book but I would get the paperback, that is a much better format for all the charts with types by block, and they are the most useful part for figure out a good career match. One of the most interesting things she talks about career wise is lawyers. Twice as many P's as J's drop out of law school. Certain types, mainly T's and N's I think, are drawn to law but for each pair of types, the P's drop out at higher rates. Law is more detail oriented and J's are more list/detail people than P's. Good for them figuring it out before they became lawyers, but better if they realized it up front!
  11. We live in a state that allows dual homeschool/public school in all grades. She took 2 public school classes 2nd semester of 11th grade and 6 public school, 1 homeschool class senior year. She's now a Sophomore in college. I submitted 3 transcripts: 1. official homeschool transcript with only homeschooled classes 2. official public high school transcript 3. unofficial transcript combining both, in capital letters at top it said something like "unofficial combined school transcript" I explained it to the school (went in person but you could call or enclose a letter if not visiting and not nearby) and they were happy with it. She goes to a large public university and her ACT score was good enough for merit aid after acceptance. She is awesome at English, her scores in that allowed her to not have to take either of the 2 required college English classes. Her brother is a big extrovert, he started the dual process with 6 public school classes in 10th grade, he is now in 11th. I'll do the same thing for him.
  12. I put their best work for each grade in a clamp folder. They enjoy looking through it. I included pictures they drew as well as their work. I also had a summery page with pictures of them at that age and what they studied that year. Clamp folder, up to 100 pages per folder: https://www.amazon.com/CRANBURY-Ringless-Binder-Removable-Transparent/dp/B08P1SXJKS/ref=sr_1_3_sspa?crid=11IAFTW3T46CL&keywords=clamp+folder&qid=1644375806&sprefix=clamp+folder%2Caps%2C141&sr=8-3-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUE0RzgxWTBRRFgyREcmZW5jcnlwdGVkSWQ9QTAxODk1ODEzUjRSVDUxUkNMQUZHJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTA4NzkyOTgyOERBT1hJVFY2WUpYJndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfYXRmJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==
  13. First, I would test their word level decoding with word lists and the MWIA. I've had several students over my 28 years as a volunteer literacy tutor where the students actually had a slight decoding problem. They need to be 1 grade above grade level and reading no errors on the MWIA 3 word lists and no slowdown. If not, work through my syllables program until they are, the tests are linked at the end of my syllables page, do the MWIA 3 and the 40L quick screen reading grade level test. http://thephonicspage.org/On Reading/syllablesspellsu.html If they're reading well, then I have suggestions but nothing will work until that's fixed if they are not reading at grade level with good accuracy.
  14. Is his reading comprehension fine? I have some resources if not. If it's attention, perhaps taking short notes after each paragraph and doing some sort of pomodoro with timed work and breaks will help. I would start with less time than recommended for someone without attention issues. Pomodoro technique: https://todoist.com/productivity-methods/pomodoro-technique I would also get the book Smart but Scattered, it has good strategies.
  15. Blend Phonics? It's easy to process faster with it, just move on to the next thing when the sounds you're working on are well learned. http://www.donpotter.net/pdf/blend_phonics_reader.pdf Word Mastery goes to a higher level and should be easy to accelerate as well. http://www.donpotter.net/pdf/word_mastery_typed.pdf If you still have the MFW phonics on hand, you could just do the phonics portion of it.
  16. WIth my adults or older children who do not know basic sounds, I use the same lessons but allow them to use the chart to look up sounds. I drill the sounds at the beginning and end of each lesson. I have a chart with non cute pictures for adults and teens. (Although, no teen so far has wanted the non cute chart, LOL, they like the little cartoon animals.) You guide them to the sounds at first, then they learn to look them up on their own. If he doesn't mind cute animals, he can color in the child chart on page 6, black and white, my students like to color in the black and white chart with colored pencil. http://www.thephonicspage.org/On Reading/Resources/40LChartsCombined.pdf The Laubach materials are terribly slow, when I first started tutoring I tried them out with a Laubach Literacy organization, I switched my student to my own lessons and then started finding students on my own. If he doesn't guess and has been taught nothing, use the real words instead of the nonsense words, most of my students guess from balanced literacy teaching. http://thephonicspage.org/On Reading/syllablesspellsu.html My first adult student, I hadn't developed my own lessons yet, I used a regular phonics book and added in a few 2 to 3 syllable words, that was the start of my lessons, I found that older children and adults can work with multi-syllable words, and that it speeds progress.
  17. Your husband was never a girl in middle school, and it's worse now. There is a line in a Temple Grandin (high functioning autistic) book where she talks about how elementary school was mostly OK friend wise, then girls turned weird. Something about them being crazy aliens, I can't recall the exact phrasing. I've polled women, 99% did not enjoy middle school (not just homeschooling moms, random neighbors, military moms, etc.) Since health and interests are both being impacted, I would bring her home.
  18. Is she missing a lot of vocabulary? The 1879 McGuffey readers are a great way to build up vocabulary, they have difficult words marked and defined. I would start with the 3rd reader, do at least 2 passages a day. They are free online or reprints are cheap, blue and orange covers, not brown 1828 Mott Media edition. She can read them on her own silently. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5671 I would also have her go through my overview syllables video, then lessons 7 - 10, Latin and Greek Roots. The Latin and Greek word root bingo works faster (and is more fun!) than any program I've tried or worksheets or workbooks I've used to learn roots. You can have all ages play together, younger get more help. While they play, you call out the words and definitions from the document for each word as they look for it on their card, link # 4 in the teacher folder. http://www.thephonicspage.org/On Reading/Resources/SyllablesSpellSuccessTranscript.pdf Then, have her look up the etymology of difficult words in each subject online, this is a great site for it: https://www.etymonline.com For sentence phrasing, I would do a lot of sentence composing. I like the ones that combine grammar and sentence composing but they are all good. Start with middle school: https://www.amazon.com/Grammar-Middle-School-Sentence-Composing-Approach/dp/0325009562/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=sentence+composing+grammar&qid=1633406330&sr=8-4 Then high school: https://www.amazon.com/Grammar-High-School-Sentence-Composing-Approach/dp/0325010463/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=grammar+composing+high+school&qid=1633406392&sr=8-2 Also, I would correct any awkward sentences for her and have her re-write them and compare, read both aloud. (After a few months of vocabulary and sentence composing.) For explicit comprehension help after several months (may be vocab deficit.) The McGuffey readers also have comprehension questions, I think starting in Reader 4, I can't remember. https://classicalacademicpress.com/collections/reasoning-reading
  19. This is meant for beginning speakers of English who speak German, but I found it's helpful for pronouncing German as well: https://books.google.com/books?id=qFwBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR20&lpg=PR20&dq=edwin+leigh+pronouncing+orthography&source=bl&ots=nPqkX18L2I&sig=EamrNdiU6ghDuHKotuT2O2kTjnI&hl=en&ei=t9v9SYjcF4jCtwfk_aWjDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result#v=onepage&q=edwin leigh pronouncing orthography&f=false It is in Leigh Print, here is my Leigh Print page, with links to a key and some beginning readers and primers in English. http://thephonicspage.org/On Reading/leighprint.html
  20. Get a digital piano and headphones. A nice digital piano is semi-portable, never needs tuning, has similar sound and feel to a real piano but can also sound like a harpsichord, many pieces are nicer in harpsichord mode. Yamaha is a good brand. You want an 88 key weighted keyboard. I actually like ours better than a regular piano since you can practice at night and also use harpsichord mode. I played trumpet for 15 years growing up, I started young. I still play occasionally. There are mutes you can buy that make it much quieter. I use one when I play at night. Here is one very similar to the one I have, it works well: https://www.amazon.com/Harmon-Aluminum-Wow-Trumpet-Mute/dp/B002Q0WTG0/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=trumpet+mute+quiet&qid=1632456648&sr=8-5 This one might work, it is cheaper: https://www.amazon.com/Lightweight-Aluminum-Practice-Trumpet-Silencer/dp/B01LZJKPGC/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=trumpet+mute+quiet&qid=1632456648&sr=8-4 They have mutes fox a sax as well, just Google them, I have no idea what is a good mute for quiet sax playing.
  21. You can get the meat you'll need for the elimination diet from D'Artagonon. The 4th meat day could be lamb, squab, or rabbit. https://www.dartagnan.com They often have free shipping if you buy certain amounts. You can also, depending on your state, find some of these things locally. Texas had a lot of things available in regular and ethnic groceries. In some states, local farms or butcher stores had them available. You can also find weird fruits and veggies at local ethnic grocery stores.
  22. I would start with eating healthy and totally resting, after shopping or hiring or supervising cooking, totally rest up, not just half rest, and eat well for 2 weeks. Get friends and family to help or hire things out. Here is how to eat healthy while testing an elimination diet: Try it for 10 days and see if it helps. The only seasoning you can use during this process is salt, also only plain water. You can have coffee but no sugar or milk in it. For example: Day 1: eat only sweet potatoes, buffalo, a fruit and veggie you don't eat often. Day 2: couscous, quail, different fruits and veggies you don't eat often Day 3: jicama, venison, different fruits and veggies you don't eat often Day 4: squash as a starch, watermelon or cantaloupe (same food family as squash), pork or another meat you don't eat more than 3X a week Repeat day 1 after day 4. Each of your fruits and veggies on the different days should be different and not from the same food family. If you decide to try it, you can post your choices and I'll tell you if any of them are in the same family. Some weird fruits to try, get them at asian or Mexican grocery stores: jackfruit, starfruit. If any of those starches are things you eat more than 2x a week, let me know and I'll give you alternative starches. This is also a good healthy gut diet that should also reduce inflammation.
  23. I would hire someone to cook for you for a week, get a bunch of healthy freezer meals built up for you. Alternatively, you could go to Whole Foods and buy things from their hot meals, buy a few weeks worth of different healthy things and freeze. Or, older children cook healthy for you. If you combine an elimination diet with a rotation diet of weird foods you have never eaten, it's actually fairly easy. You can also try to have a skin test if you suspect food allergies. I'll post how to later.
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