Today was our last day of summer tutoring. Haroun wrote a short essay, and here it is in his own words. It’s a ‘hamburger essay’, and I helped him organize his thoughts into point-form, otherwise it’s all his. His spelling is phonetically plausible so spell-check helped a bit. THE…
End of Summer
School is about to start, and Haroun and I are finishing our last days together. He is now reading independently, and his comprehension, fluency, and stamina are improving daily. We have worked about 80 hours over this summer, averaging just under two hours per day through July and August. Haroun…
Bonus Myth 13 – Dyslexia is hereditary
We reposted an excellent list of the 12 Myths of Dyslexia from the Promethian Trust here: http://communityreading.org/wp/the-dirty-dozen-12-myths-about-dyslexia/ Bonus Myth: Dyslexia is hereditary. Dorothy Bishop, one of the leading researchers in the genetics of dyslexia outlines the faint evidence of a link between dyslexia and genetics in an excellent blog…
Visiting the Bookstore
Haroun is still reading Goosebumps, and will be for some time. We started a new book yesterday, and this morning he read 15 pages. At this rate, it will still take him about 8 days to finish. That’s better than the last book – his speed is improving with daily…
12 Myths about dyslexia:
These myths are insidious. Some of these myths survive because they have a grain of ‘truthiness’. Others intentionally confuse cause and effect. We believe some myths simply because other people believe them, or we find comfort in believing them. But each of these claims is a myth, a falsehood, a…
Really Reading
In the week since I last posted about Haroun, he has made steady progress. He has solidified his ‘silent reading’ and improved his comprehension. These skills need both practice and ‘soak in’ time, and our consistent daily two hours of practice is giving him both. We started a new Goosebumps…
Silent Reading Begins…
Until now Haroun and I have been reading together – typically he reads the right-side pages and I read the left-side. This morning as we settled into the backyard, he announced that he wanted to read to himself. Yes!!! I asked him to move his lips as he reads, to…
Curse of the Hardy Boys
I grew up with the The Hardy Boys. The writing was crisp and the stories were heart-pounding (to a 10-year-old). At the time there were about 40 titles in the series, and I think I read every one of them. I owned a few titles, traded others with friends, and…
