Jack

Today Jack was phenomenal!  For the past few weeks he has been receiving remedial reading help at school, and I can really see the difference!  I told mom that working 1 hour with me once a week just wasn't cutting it, and we were so happy that his school stepped up to give him the extra support he needs during the day! 

One main issue that had negative implications on his ability to sound out words was his difficulty with naming all of his letters.  About three weeks ago I tackled this issue by implementing a new task - DIBELS Letter Naming Fluency - into our routine.  The first week, he read 26 letters in one minute from a sheet that has the letters (uppercase and lowercase) in random order.  He skipped a line, confused the lowercase 'g' with 'a' and made various other mistakes.  This score (26 letters) placed him in the 'at risk' category.  After practicing letter recognition and sounds for the last few weeks, I am so happy to announce that Jack was able to recognize 38 letters correctly in one minute today!!!  This places him in the 'some risk' category, however, to be considered as having 'low risk' for reading problems, Jack needs to be able to recognize 40 letters within one minute by the time he finishes kindergarten.  We're just two letters away!!