• Feb. 21, 2008 - Testing Is Done
Your testing is completed for another year. Things were pretty much as I expected with the exception was a 3 year gain for my Hayden in reading comprehension. Our evaluator feels that using the audio reading program from Reading for the Blind and Dyslexic really made all the difference for him. Here can check them out here. RFBD.org
So after a year of starting, stopping, and tweaking I think for the most part we are now on the right track with the materials we are using with just a few exceptions. With suggestions from our evaluator and from friends I think I've found what I need to work for those areas that need a bit more work. For Hayden he will begin to use Queen's Language Lessons for Secondary Students doing all the writing assignments on the computer using a word processing program and spell check. I am looking into Apples spelling as recommended by a good friend. Its on the way so I'll have to report on that later. I may use this with Caleb as well. Caleb really wanted to learn Latin and vocabulary was an area suggested to work on so we are meeting two needs with one product. He will be starting Lively Latin next week. I also order Queen's Spelling Through Copywork to check out. I might use this with Caleb or I might use it with Joshua. Queen's Language Lessons seems to have worked well for Josh and Hannah and as they are both finishing up their current books I have order the next level for each of them. I don't think I'm making any changes in Joshua current plans with the exception of stopping him after 30 minutes of math and going on to other things and then back to math so he doesn't waste the whole more dragging out his math work. Hannah's only change is adding in a handwriting program. I felt that since she already did so much more writing than the boys did at the same age we were fine but our evaluator felt that see needed more focused practice as she is developing some sloppy habits like letter reversals, mixing capital letters with lower case, etc even when copying from the book. Hannah also wants to learn some cursive so I think we will add Handwriting without Tears Grade 1 book and Cheerful Cursive from Mastery Publications. If you do the first one I'll reward you with the second one kind of trade. Hannah is finishing up the last of her K workbooks as she wants to finish so as we finish these up and we add in the new handwriting her workload should stay about the same. |
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