Karen: Hang in there. I hope you and the teacher can work something out.

Jamie B: Last year, when pre-K teachers were teaching kids to write names in all uppercase, I told DS that the correct way is to do upper and lower case and even though his teacher was saying this, to listen to me instead. He did. I've used this method a couple of times successfully. Maybe you could do the same? Something like, "The teacher is trying to help the other kids read like you already can. So, just b/c she's teaching them these methods, you don't have to struggle to relearn what you already know. After all, you're such a beautiful reader."

Also, thought you guys would like DS5's new teachers' approach to DS's reading -- maybe you can get some of your teachers to try it? He now has to write down the words he doesn't know the meaning to so those can be the words he works on. We're going away next week and she told me to just put post-it notes in the books she gives me with the words on them so she can work with him on them when we return.