{"id":5291,"date":"2011-06-20T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=5291"},"modified":"2011-06-20T11:08:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T15:08:02","slug":"teaching-every-child-to-read-never-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/teaching-every-child-to-read-never-give-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Every Child to Read: Never Give Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Teaching%20Every%20Child%20to%20Read%3A%20Never%20Give%20Up%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px;float:right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/nltr\/img\/mother.son.read.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"151\" \/>\u201cNever give up\u201d is an essential motto for parents of children who have difficulty learning to read.<\/p>\n<p>I know. My son was seriously behind in reading skills throughout his early grade school years.<\/p>\n<p>Typical in most schools by the end of third grade, I knew his school district would stop providing individual reading instruction. I could not let that happen! Kevin was making \u201cgood progress,\u201d but he was falling further and further behind his age mates in reading skill.<\/p>\n<p>I used the Wrightslaw technique of graphing scores to demonstrate this gap.<!--more--> Pete is right when he says it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=5081\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">a skill all parents should master<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=5081\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The evaluation results gave me the data. Graphing the data helped me convince the CSE team that research based reading instruction <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/nclb\/rbi.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">(RBI)<\/span><\/a> needed to be included in Kevin&#8217;s IEP.\u00a0 That instruction continued for the next several years.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it took several years.\u00a0 However, I never gave up. Kevin did learn to read fluently!\u00a0 Kevin just finished his first semester as a full time college student with a 2.8 GPA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reading \u2013 A Basic Skill<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reading is such a basic skill.\u00a0 Having others read to you cannot substitute for this skill. Using assistive technology to read for you cannot substitute.<\/p>\n<p>If we teach a child everything BUT reading through all the years of public school, when he leaves school, his chances are limited. However, if we teach him nothing BUT reading, when he leaves, the whole world is open to him.<\/p>\n<p>The understanding of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/read.index.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">how a child learns to read<\/span><\/a> has expanded enormously over the past ten years. We now can teach virtually every child to read.\u00a0 Never give up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNever give up\u201d is an essential motto for parents of children who have difficulty learning to read. I know. My son was seriously behind in reading skills throughout his early <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/teaching-every-child-to-read-never-give-up\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[782,1300,413],"class_list":["post-5291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","tag-progress-graphs","tag-reading","tag-teaching-reading"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5291"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5354,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5291\/revisions\/5354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}