You could post on the Special Needs board and see if any of the ladies there can show you a page or two, I think several of them have the book.

Our university library has that book. They are designed for a class but all are easily taught to a single student. They look like good exercises. I have not tried them with an actual child, but they are similar to other things I have done and used with my students with underlying speech. language, or hearing problems.

http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/blendingwords.html Many good free online older phonics programs like Blend Phonics, Word Mastery, the Pollard series, Phonovisual, etc, have a few pre reading activities and explanations. Most of these programs can be found linked from Don Potter's reading page: http://www.donpotter.net/education_pages/reading-instruction.html

My greek and latin bingo game and my greek worksheet. The latin and mixed one may be too hard, but they are all free to print. The bingo game works with kids as young as K! http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/syllablesspellsu.html The worksheets are called language worksheets in the student file. All bingo stuff is in teacher file.

I would try my multisyllable phonics with nonsense words for a few months and see if that helps. http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/WellTaughtPhonicsStudent.html http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/Resources/NonsenseWordsByType.pdf After that, start looking into underlying vision or speech and language problems.

I would go though the flow chart on my dyslexia page with them. http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/dyslexia.html Most common is guessing from sight words, correct with my online lessons and extra nonsense words. But, it does sound like there may be some sort of vision problem going on, I agree with the covd doctor recommendation.

It was hard for my son, easy for my daughter. He took a lot more work and repetition. But, she takes more work and repetition for math. There are fun programs. Sing, spell, read, write. A free option that is fun, the Pollard series, linked from my reading and spelling book page: http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/phonicsandspelli.html Also, you can add in games. My phonics concentration game: http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Phonics/concentrationgam.html My blending page and blending video explain why blending is hard and have ideas to make blending more fun: http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/blendingwords.html Ideas for phonemic awareness and a free phonemic awareness test are on my dyslexia page, along with another visual of why blending is hard for some students, scroll down to phonemic awareness section, but you will want to read the whole page: http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/dyslexia.html Also, a good phonemic awareness video by Denise Eide:

I never should have taught complementary and supplementary angles at the same time, either. My 14 year old with a very good memory still forgets sometimes. I like Homeschool Mom in AZ's idea (is that a state, LOL), and will now just do complememtary angles for the next month before even discussing supplementary angles. I have said about 1,000 times that c is before s in the alphabet and 90 is less than 180 but this is not sticking.

Phonics for an older child, teachng phonics up to a 12th grade level, free to print. If he has a MWIA slowdown of more than 10%, I will send you a draft link to some extra nonsense words, you can also play my free phonics concentration game to get in nonsense word practice. The game a good activity for multiple children as well, you can keep score and have your children play against one another. http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/WellTaughtPhonicsStudent.html The MWIA is on my testing page: http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/readinggradeleve.html

Dictionary expert: bigly is actually a word but Trump is using it wrong... http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dictionary-expert-bigly-is-actually-933072

Not political overall, IMO, just a funny new literary genre. I don't do twitter, if you don't you can google "twitter trending now" or "twitter #trumpbookreport," the Moby Dick one for example starts "Great whale. Tremendous whale..." Many of them are well thought out and hilarious.

Also, it may not help until you get vision tested, but many of my remedial reading students, even students thought to just have a comprehension problem, have improved their reading speed with my program, I explain and link in post 19 of this thread. http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/626432-struggling-student-vs-lazy/ You can also try large print, various overlays in the interim and see if that helps. I will link some overlays in a few. Blue is the one that has heloed the most of my students, then green, in the intirim. Also, large print has helped a few, and for some, double spaced large print in the dyslexie font, I will link that too. Strip overlays, there are also full page overlays, it depends on the student which works best. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E4U48XM/ref=pd_sim_229_5?ie=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00E4U48XM&pd_rd_r=BMCP43TANWM9ZQ0ZDS85&pd_rd_w=jlqUA&pd_rd_wg=7aCqh&psc=1&refRID=BMCP43TANWM9ZQ0ZDS85 Dyslexie font, free for home use, they did not send me spam. https://www.dyslexiefont.com Also, try various time outs with either closing eyes or close eyes for a few seconds and then focus at something far away to give eyes a break, find the best break time that extends reading time, it might be a trade off but it may help, try one a minute, once every 2 min, etc. You will have to mix up order and try every few days and every few hours if total fatigue is cumulative.

Many of my remedial students have improved their reading speed after I added nonsense words and syllables to my program. I am working on a beta DVD of the program, but the transcript is complete, you can teach it from the links. http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/syllablesspellsu.html You are retraining the brain, so you slow down at first as you learn a new way to read based on syllables and nomsense words, but then speed up faster than original speeds once the process is automated. The fastest progress is made if you work quickly through it and do no outside reading and extra nonsense words until your MWIA slowdown is 10% or less, it usually takes a few months but if you did it daily, it could go faster, I usually work with my students once or twice a week. (Ten hours to complete basics, then a bit more time solidifying and retraining, the second part varies by student.) The second half includes a level of reading and word roots that could be lower level 9th grade language arts work, so could replace her LA once you got to that point for the second week, it would take two weeks if you did a lesson a day M - F. Use the blend phonics nonsense word document instead of the regular blend phonics and the nonsense word syllable division version, although if she is reading below grade level, I would do both the nonsense word and regular syllable division documents. The links include a silent reading speed test and a reading grade level test. If you went through it faster doing 2 lessons a day, you would definately have to continue with extra nonsense words daily for a while, and even at two weeks will probably need to. A nonsense word document is linked, if you use it and run out, I have more but not linked yet. I also do not yet have instructions for my new MWIA version, but it is similar to the MWIA linked in my reading test page. This one is faster to give and has a few different versions so you can track progress. Do not give answers and then you can reuse the reading grade level test. http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/readinggradeleve.html I would try to schedule a visit or two with a good private speech therapist to give you ideas, maybe post on the learning challenges board about how to find a good one in the area you need and the types of books and exercises you can do on your own while waiting. You might also want to do a hearing screening. You can also compare and contrast spanish syllables, it will help both her understanding of English and Spanish. http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/519829-syllabic-phonics-in-multiple-languages/?hl=%2Bsyllables&do=findComment&comment=6378798

Yes, sounds like a vision problem that a COVD doctor may be able to help with, but the vision therapy takes a while and most of the good COVD doctors, especially the FCOVD doctors, the fellows, have a waiting list. If you explain that you have ACT coming up and need quick help and are open to cancellations or being fit in in bits of time over multiple days, maybe they will help you out. Also, ask about homework to speed up the process and explain that you are a homeschool parent used to working with your child.

It is not punishing, it is incentive...to get him to figure out one of the benefits of being able to read. I have a friend who did it for one of her boys who was like this after she had tried a bunch of other things to get him to work, he was also one who needed to see a reason and have a motivation before he would work.

Some out of the box ideas to help him see he needs to be able to read and add: Write everyone notes for a few days that they get a priviledge, cookie, something if they read the note themselves to you for a few days. No cookie if you don't read the note... Some sort of similar thing with change and getting small items from a "store" that requires math to buy and get change. No math skills, no ability to buy... It sounds like you also need to look into other underlying problems that may be causing the behavior. There are game based phonics and math programs that are acceptable for a 6 year old. If he likes games, you can start a new thread and people can suggest ideas.

How to teach blending, why it is difficult and developmental. http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/blendingwords.html Also, you can watch the blending movie with him to help him underestand why it is difficult and that the steps like oral blending do lead to reading. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q4KTyqpg5o LOEs developing phonemic awareness video. https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLJLxBWdK_5l3aBN-qowg2u8BdGYM64pTi&v=KJF8zt9jnZI

I See Sam is a good fun choice. Before you start, you may need to be super incremental with the blending, and I would use my reference vowel and consonant charts for all reading, they also have some cards for making words. Blending Page with explanations: http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/blendingwords.html Charts: http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/Resources/40LChartsCombined.pdf Some fun YouTube videos to watch with her that show blending and phonics with these cards: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJLxBWdK_5l0Z941Cy1INrADEO9Sy4ZWz She may also be able to do Read, Write, Type once she has blending down pat. It is very forgiving on wrong answers. It says it has special features for students for LDs. http://www.talkingfingers.com/read-write-type/

Don Potter has a lot of interesting Spanish links. He teaches Spanish at his school. http://www.donpotter.net/spanish.html

Recipe for Reading can be used for lower levels of instruction for just the cost of the manual if you use a whiteboard and/or letter tiles for the instruction. You can make your own from small tiles bought at a home improvement store, write on them with a sharpie. The manual is less than $30. For follow on, first try Webster and my syllable division, here is the program: http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/syllablesspellsu.html I recommend doing the entire Webster Speller if that is working, not just the excerpts. Then, try Sophris West Rewards if my Webster and syllable division is not enough for upper level work. LOE teaches too many things at once for a truly dyslexic student.

I am looking to teach my 10 lesson remedial reading/spelling/root study class with a group of folks from my church, so wanted the nearest school that was near the bottom. I found one with a community center that is fairly close, it is bottom 10% of the schools in the state test wise. I am hoping to beta test my DVD of the 10 lesson class where it will do the most good, hence the search for bad schools. I hope to have a version for folks that want to do the same or try out with a larger family or a small family and a few friends to help me beta test by next week. The transcript and all the stuff you need to teach it is online, and I have complete the lesson portion. I need to work on the teaching tips portion and make a video of that before it's ready for Beta testing by other people. (The last half of the class has upper level phonics and greek and latin word root study and games.) http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/syllablesspellsu.html

I was on my iPad and did not see that option, that sounds good for future use!!

I had to do a lot of clicking amd scrolling to find the worst schools near me. I guess it is pretty rare to want to find the worst school. We have not lived in the area long enough for me to know what the nearest bottom 1/4 schools to me were.

It is still in draft form, but here is my 10 lesson co-op class called "Syllables Spell Success" that teaches phonics of word origin, Greek and Latin roots, and phonics to a 12th grade level. http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/syllablesspellsu.html

A neighbor told my daughter that I would not be able to teach her to read since I was not a trained teacher....my daughter was 4 at the time and ironically already reading better than most first graders, LOL. We were moving in a few months anyway and I rarely saw them or I would have started unleashing stories about the hundreds of kids I taught to read whose teachers were not able to teach them to read... One a positive note, another neighbor in another state once stated that my kids were way more socialized than his kids, he said it after I told him we were happy his daughter was able to play again after the grind of yearly test prep where she could not play most nights. (Our kids were always running back and forth to play with homeschool neighbor kids down the street.) It was really sad, actually, his daughter was 4th grade and studying until bedtime every night for months, 4th grade was a big test year in that state.