Help new homeschoolers 2nd grade remedial reader

[blondbaby107]

I need to figure out how I can do this. I want to pursue a classical education for my 3 kids, 2, 4 and 7. The 7 year old can barely read, Im 99% sure she is dyslexic! How should I begin with them? I am thinking I should focus on only phonics for the 7 year old and after making it through half OPGTTR then slowly add in writing w/ease and then adding in arithmetic later and so on. Any thoughts?

 

 

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[Kiara.I]

So the first thing for the 7-year-old is to get an eye exam with a developmental optometrist to rule out any kind of vision issue that an ordinary eye exam could easily miss--you can have perfect vision and still not track together, easily, for instance.  And some of those vision issues can look like dyslexia, so you want to make sure that you know what's going on there.

 

The next thing would be to give the Barton pre-screen to find out if she has the phonemic awareness right now to even do a remedial phonics program.  Link for it is on this page:  https://bartonreading.com/students/

 

I would not delay math for reading.  Math is also important, and can be done writing-free.  I wouldn't delay any other subjects either.  Most of them shouldn't require reading, and if they do, tweak them so they don't.  But there's no reason she can't learn history before she can read.  Or science before she can read.  Or anything else you care to add!  She can have a content-rich education while still working on the reading.

[Guest]

I agree completely with what Kiara said.

 

Just do verbally or with scribing the math that may need some writing, but there is nothing wrong with moving ahead on other subjects while working more slowly in reading and writing. And YES get eyes checked. Our various kids had near and farsightedness as well as convergence and tracking issues. Just addressing those with the proper lenses and exercise solved the issue.

[HS Mom in NC]

My middle kid wasn't ready to start learning to read until almost 8.  She could read like an adult by 11. We didn't delay other subjects because of it. If something other than her age makes you suspect she's got some sort of learning challenge going on, then have her tested ASAP.  There are lots of children who aren't reading at 7,8 and sometimes 9ish who have no learning challenges.