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Any ideas for reading software or sites for 6/7th grader who reads at a 2 or three level
and often skips words and sentence
child has a lot hands on intervention, reading poetry, recorded scriptures, chapter book reading, books on tape
parent started rewards for reading but would like a fun reward based system to lower skipping and improve
comprehension

reward based systems are preferred
would prefer a site that is under $40 per year or you can buy the program

Ticket to read plan starts in January

This site seems expensive even at half off but the concept seems good
http://readingbuddysoftware.com/buy-now/#

a lot of learning softwear is either out of date, or for toddlers. the on level programs look boring.

used endmark at school didn't see much progress


starfall was amazing but child is tooold for it

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar
(This site is free BTW)

Very likely this child has dyslexia, and the interventions tried to date were not based on Orton-Gillingham. An app is unlikely to help. I would recommend you look into Barton Reading & Spelling. It's designed for parental tutoring, or they have a network of tutors you can hire, including ones that work remotely via Skype. Check out www.dyslexiafirst100days.com for more info about dyslexia.

This worked for my nephew. Get highlighter pens of two different colors. Ask the child to read and highlight consecutive blocks of words in alternating colors. There are no rules for the block boundaries. Just highlight every a few words.

As for myself, I don't really like to read fiction books. I could, when forced to (like when I read the whole book of Don Quixote in classical Spanish in my high school). I need to doodle while I read. I call it "taking picture notes." The "picture notes" should be really really simple, it's more important to have more frames than having elaborate drawings inside each frame. Use single letters or acronyms of very few letters when necessary (to represent objects/people/actions/ideas). I use a lot of arrows, too. Each frame should not have too many strokes, perhaps no more than 20 strokes. It's OK to be very abstract, but speed is the essence: your main task is to read, not to draw. Drawing only helps you to re-focus and revisit immediate previous segments of the story, so that you can make sense out of the story. Very often, after drawing a few frames, I pick up steam in reading, and don't need to doodle anymore, or doodle a new frame only after a few pages.

To give you an idea, here is an example of "picture notes" that my daughter took while reading "The Tiny Seed" story. It's too elaborate, in my opinion. The frames should be even simpler.

thank you all very much

magicmerekat I love your name
Thanks for the link

Zette
I have thought of dyslexia. I am also getting eyes checked in case it's a tracking issue.
Was told its probably iq issue. I will check Barton.
The school has provided pricy well respected high end programs but none of them worked.
Progress is when I create individualized hands on material.

Last edited by cakedashdash on 01 Nov 2016, 12:31 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Eikon
love the highlighter idea
Thank yoi