pedagog

[yoni chanowitz]

Need help fast!
Anyone who knows about teaching in general and teaching language in specific.
I am guiding a 8 year old boy in Argentina in our religion we teach Hebrew to the children from age 3 (some from birth ) this is not such an important fact I just wanted to give some background. I would give a guess that 90 % of the children learn the second language fluently and can read and write it by 3rd grade. This one child that only I am responsable for has some fear , I think , of reading and there are 5 weeks left to the school year. If he cannot read by the end of this school year they will be forced to put him back a grade which I am sure will hurt him socially

Anybody have any teaching advice?

[Mae]

I am a language teacher, but I teach American Sign Language, which lacks the written aspect. I also have a severe learning disability, dyslexia, that makes it very difficult (or practically impossible) for me to read and write. Before you continue with your student, I would make absolutely sure that they have been tested for dyslexia and other similar learning disabilities. Don't assume that your students lack of the ability to read is based in something superficial (disinterest, nervousness, laziness, etc.). If your student does have a learning disability, being told that if they would only "try" to read, they could easily do so could be beyond frustrating, hurtful, and damaging. I hope everything works out for you and your student, and I would be very interested to hear back from you about whether or not your student has been tested for dyslexia or other learning disabilities!

[yoni chanowitz]

Thank you so much!I didn't think of that possibility.