How can I get my 7th grader who reads at the 1st grade level to believe that they won fail with “just on more method”?
We need to remove the “blame” for failure from them. Far too often, they have been told that they are incapable of learning – in fact that they are the problem or that their parents are. They are suffering from “sustained frustration” (Retarding America, The Imprisonment of Potential ” by Michael S. Brunner 1993) from the inability to learn to read in public schools. They fail over and over again because most of their school hours are spent being asked to do things no one has yet taught them to do. This is very demeaning to them. “Invented’ spellings and “Picture Clues” are examples of this type of academic activity. These children must be made to understand that the methods used with them previously have not been correct and have not addressed their leaning style. The Orton-Spalding method has been known to bring 13 & 14-year-olds grade levels up 4 grades within a summer.
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