![]() ![]() Most kids learn to read between the ages of 4-7 and some not until 8. He would be considered behind by normal, traditional Kindergarten standards. He understands everything read aloud to him and asks great questions when he doesn’t. He can tell elaborate stories and wants me to document them. My son does not have a learning disability, nor does he have ADHD. We all know that school is not built for boys, especially little boys who like to run, jump, and wrestle rather than sit still in a classroom. My son has gone through his Kindergarten year and continually voiced to me that he doesn’t like school. I don’t want him to feel anxious or stressed about not performing well enough. I want school to be a safe, comfortable place for my son to spend 6+ hours a day for 13+ years of his life. ![]() ![]() I had a love/hate relationship with school myself (it was too easy for me) and my husband disliked school (it was boring). The Parent Side of MeĪs a parent, I want to see him love school. The teacher in me feels like I am somehow failing him by not teaching him to read. I know how to do it and I can create or find the resources I need to teach him to read. The teacher part of me wants to create a scope and sequence of instruction that will meet his needs and push him to the next level in reading. He didn’t know many of his sounds and lacked quite a few phonemic awareness skills that needed to be in place first. I think he expected to learn how to read quickly and it was something I could teach him easily, like within a day or two.Īt the time I knew he wasn’t ready yet. In August of this past school year, my son asked me to teach him to read. I know all of these things and at the same time, I have not provided systematic instruction at home for him this past year. I know that he needs to work on his phonemic awareness skills. He knows all of his continuous sounds, but still struggles to remember the stop sounds. I know that he cannot smooth blend some CVC words, especially those with stop sounds. I know exactly what sounds he knows and doesn’t know. The strange thing is that, as a teacher and a former Kindergarten teacher, I know what he needs. In a way, I’m okay with the fact that the reading instruction hasn’t been solid because he’s not ready for it. The other part is that he just needs some solid, consistent instruction in reading, which he hasn’t gotten this year at school. Partly he’s just a six-year-old boy, who would rather play than read, and is not really interested in school yet. There’s a couple of reasons why my son hasn’t learned to read in Kindergarten this past year. I have a strong background in early reading instruction. I taught K-2 for a number of years, have presented teacher professional development on early reading, and worked with countless students who were struggling readers. If you’ve been reading my blog posts this past year, you’ll know that I’m a big proponent of phonics-based early reading instruction. It’s now May and I have watched him struggle with learning to read. ![]()
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