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George
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Date Posted: 20:48:27 10/23/11 Sun
My 10 y.o. daughter struggles with reading aloud (who knows how she does when reading silently), pronunciation and syllabication. She also has trouble with numbers (200 may be called 20, or 2000). It is extremely common for her to completely drop words from sentences and to say different words from those written that are similar in "look". (Commute may be read as communicate.) Her spelling is haphazard.
She also has a poor memory when it comes to corrected pronunciation. Following advice I've read elsewhere, I will tell her how to pronounce a word after she's given it a shot. When the word appears again, or I stop her after a minute and ask the word again, its as if she's never seen it before. She will repeat every incorrect attempt previously made at the word, but the correct pronunciation is never found. Its as if the child has no memory.
She does not seem to have problems with letter inversion, and enjoys writing poems and reading books. She had been read to from the age of 6 months, and started reading simple books at 3 or 4. Everything seemed to be going well until she was taught "whole language" (or look and guess, or whatever its called now) reading in K5 and 1st grade.
She progressed quickly and read at a 4-5 STAR level as early as 2nd grade. She was qualified as eligible for the enrichment (gifted) program in 3rd grade. Now in the 5th grade her last STAR assessment shows her in 3-4.7 reading level.
She does make all A's, but as we've continued reading aloud all these years, she still reads hesitantly and with numerous dropped and misread words (Usually 1 mistake for each 2 or 3 sentences.)
She tells me that she reads the sentence and then says what is in her head. Sentences with complex structure or oddly constructed dialog is extremely challenging. Its as if she is paraphrasing the ideas in her mind. If she wouldn't think the sentence that way, she can't easily read it that way.
The school doesn't care as she makes all As so far, but the STAR assessment indicates that her reading ability has reached a plateau. New words still baffle her in pronunciation eventhough she is being tutored in spelling and reading. I've noticed little if any improvement in almost 2 years now.
To sum up she shows:
Poor word recognition and pronunciation memory.
Skipping words while reading aloud.
Word substitutions common.
Confusion when reading numbers.
Poor syllabication ability on any word.
Poor pronunciation ability with new words.
Sorry for the lengthy description, but I just need to know where to go with this? Is this a kind of dyslexia, or has the "whole language" approach just failed her? I hoped she would "grow out of it" but its not happening. I wouldn't worry about it except there are times in life where reading aloud is required. The idea that a child cannot read one word after another on a page with nearly no mistakes is impossible for me to comprehend.
If anyone has a book, website, or program to recommend, I'd appreciate it.
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