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This student should definitely continue to develop his phonemic awareness skills.  Phonemic awareness is an essential building block and without having a good grasp on the sounds that are made, he'll likely struggle at anything else you throw his way.  As you're continuing to work with this student on his phonemic awareness, maybe ...

I totally agree with you.  Some of the students I teach have learning disabiltiies.  When I informally assess their reading abilities some are fifth grade students who can read only on a second grade level.  I could do test prep all year long and it would still be completely unrealistic to expect one of these students to pass an ...

Here I sit asking myself the exact same question, "Why aren't we retaining them?"  There is definitely a lot of research that says why we should not retain and in looking at some of the students that have been retained at my school recently, I can't say that it has caused any dramatic positive change for them academically or ...