I laid all the groundwork, but public school failed to teach my kids to read 📚
as they muddled through their early readers sent home by kindergarten and grade one teachers. With my eldest, we patiently waited for the click. “Oh, she’s just young,” her kindergarten teacher told us. Which was true—her birthday is in late December, making her one of the youngest in the class. “She’s just not interested” was another common teacher assessment. Our daughter was a lively, imaginative kid who seemed to prefer a game of make-believe over sitting down to read.
Our middle child learned to read without much difficulty, but when our youngest was in grade one, his teacher flagged him as a kid who was falling a bit behind. Even though her advice was for him to just continue to practice with the books she sent home and to “wait and see,” we knew that—if he had similar challenges to his sister—he needed more intervention, and the sooner the better.
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