Let's Read!

DC appears to be dyslexic. No great surprise, given that I am (and, of course, the spell checker doesn't work on this site on this device). It's no big deal to me: dyslexia comes with a host of advantages to offset the disadvantages, so where's the harm? However, DC's difficulty with letter recognition landed her in reading lab. Again, fine with me, especially as both her teacher and the reading lab teacher are willing to change how they teach to fit each child. So DC is learning a bit of phonics and a LOT of word recognition. It's how I learned to read before anyone realized I had a problem.

As I see it, we have just one wee problem left: her gift of language and memorization has quickly pushed her PAST first grade level, and she's starting to get bored. I challenge her with everything I can, but when she's reading "Will We Win?" at school, there's not much help I can offer. She read one of her cheesy little books the other day, frowned in her oh-so-eloquent way and announced "There was no STORY to that story!"

Why do I sometimes feel like I'm raising myself?