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| quote: | Originally posted by Transmute Jun
LOL! Thanks for the compliment, CD! I tend to think he's a bit slow at reading, because at this age my DD had read through all of the Magic Treehouse books and was starting on other chapter books and such. Captain Underpants are the first chapter books DS has really taken to, enough to WANT to keep reading. But he's capable of reading Dr. Seuss-style books, Fly Guy, the Giving Tree, etc... books with lots of pictures. I have been trying for ages to get him into 'real' chapter books and it seems like Captain Underpants is the key.
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Lets put it this way, I would be ecstatic to have your son in my class. Especially when, of 23 students I have 7 who are struggling to read At my grandpa's house there is a very big door. At my grandpa's house there is a very big table. At my grandpa's house there is a very big bed. .... you get the picture.
Of those 7, four still stumble every time they see the words my, is, at and big. (let alone the longer ones) Some days I could just strangle those kids.... "How many times have I told you that word is /my/?" Fffffpt, thunk, shuriken to the forehead!!!!
I do have 3 children who could read the Captain Underpants books, (and would, if I had them available in my class) I just wish I had more who could. *Sigh, the problem with working in a high needs school. Who the board agrees is the 12th lowest on the social rankings/ academic test score scale.* (Hey, in 4 years, we moved up from 5th)
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| quote: | Originally posted by lborgia88
My mother was on the Halifax County School Board for many years, and she used to say that the provincial exams administered in grades 9 and 12 to evaluate schools did nothing except show what everyone already knew -the "good" schools (the ones with high test scores) were wherever the relatively prosperous and predominantly college-educated parents lived in Nova Scotia.
I say that you, and teachers like you, CD, are heroes for doing the hardest work, for the kids who need it the most (whether they realize it or not).
I actually used to annoy my grade one teacher during reading time, because she would have each kid read aloud a bit of a story in our "story book" and I would get bored listening to the other kids and I would skip ahead, or even start reading a different story, and when it came around to my turn to read aloud, I'd have no idea where we were in the story that I was supposed to be following along with. My report cards always noted that my "attentiveness" needed improvement. |
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 Thank you so much for that LB, that comment brought a tear to my eye (perhaps it is the exhaustion from this week as well) Our Principal was saying more or less that same thing in our staff meeting this week. Ending his comments with [we] "do it for the same pay, and same holidays as other teachers in our school board."
At the time we were discussing how we were going to support the family of the young lad who died last weekend from brain cancer. Teams of teachers are taking it in turn to provide meals for the family over the next week, which is March Break for us.
As for your reading antics - I suspect the three boys who are leaps and bounds ahead of the rest of the class feel in the same situation as you did. So starting after the break I am going to begin an enhanced program for them so they can read to their hearts content, get some writing out of it and perhaps learn some new things they can teach the class (and myself.) I hope I can get that going though, I have not talked to the teacher whose help I would like to enlist.
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