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Has anyone used Sound Beginnings (recommended in the MODG curriculum) with their dyslexic child? How did it work out? Does it cover writing at all? What did you use to help your child organize their thoughts for writing? Thanks!
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Becky....just my two cents.....my son was just dx with dyslexia, and I found SB not very easy at all for either of us....BUT the caveat for us is, I have tried SOOOO many programs, he was exhausted and frustrated. When we got the dx, after I had bought SB, I quit,and just let the tutor help him,and I follow her lead on the reading....it is an emotional "thing" for ds and me now, since we spent so long struggling....and both were so frustrated, he immediately puts up the fence and shuts down if he is the least bit "threatened" by the material. That is just MY kiddo.....I think it is a good solid program, just not right for my ds.
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Thanks. We decided to go with Explode the Code which seems a little too simplistic to me. DS is blowing through level 3, which is a good confidence builder for him, so we will stick with it for now, but we definitely need to supplement our curriculum with more writing. So far I haven't found any in MODG but we're only a couple of weeks in.
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I was trained in the Slingerland method and have found it to be extremely helpful to teaching my child with dyslexia.
I taught my other daughter how to read with Sound Beginnings and from my experience I think it is too much and too fast for a child with dyslexia though I really love Sound Beginnings for a typical child.
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I just got this book by Susan Wise Bauer -Easy Writer the Complete Writing Program. She essentially recommends the same philosophy as Laura Berquist-copywork, narration, and dictation for writing in grades 1 thru 4 but she gives much more detail and helpful advice on how to implement the 3. When I tried several years ago with my oldest the MODG way, everything failed. Now I understand why-my daughter would probably be diagnosed with dysgraphia (maybe-I won't take her in though) and so she needed the copywork, narration thing broken down into smaller steps. According to Susan Wise Bauer, if the kid isn't narrating right away, then you play 5 questions, until they have retained the material in their head well enough to summarize it. According to Charlotte Mason and Laura Berquist that is a no no but my daughter was 9 and still could not give a good narration. We are trying the 5 question then summary approach to see if in a year or 2 she can narrate on her own. Secondly, Susan Wise Bauer starts the dictation process by having them do dictation on a sentence that they copied out the previous day. She says over time this jumps starts the mental imaging process. She also seemed to break down the eventual writing down of narrations in third or fourth grade into smaller more reasonable steps for a child with learning glitches. All I can say is I tried the copywork, dictation, narration model 4 years ago after starting MODG, I tried again 3 years ago after reading CM and that failed, I tried again 2 years after reading Real Learning and that failed with this one child (my younger twins had no problems) but now I am doing the year 2 with my 9 yo of the Complete Writing Program and she is actually given me 2 sentence narrations, and doing the dictations without crying.
If you ever read the Susan Wise Bauer, Guide to Classical Education, you know how overwhelming and overkill her classical education process is but-this books is not overwhelming like that one was. The assignments per day are very small and doable for a large and growing family-5 minutes. I am also doing Sound Beginnings with my daughter but she has been struggling for years to remember the phonograms. She reads very well but writing, and spelling, and grammar are just incomprehensible to her, in comparison to her younger siblings...So now I dictate the phonograms and make her write them in cursive. She seems to be a little more alert this year about learning the phonograms than she was at 7 or 8 (I am trying to get her to learn them for spelling not reading).
I have a friend whose child is dyslexic and she is using an ORthoGillam (spelling is not correct I know). I guess it is similar to the Writing Road to REading but it seems to be working with her son. He is slowly but surely learning to read. I think he learned all the phonograms by the time he was 6 though.
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Topic: Dyslexia, CAPD and MODG
