How do you START teaching addition, etc to a pretty much wholey VSL (DS4) who gets things as a whole? Hints please. He memorizes numbers like phone numbers as a group, and has no problem with that. And he can write it down; so it's not totally a group in his head, I think??? He learned counting by two's with marshmallow bribes..."you can have as many as you can count to." He gets things in aha moments. His reading is much the same. He can sound out words but prefers to read known sight words first or guess on the non-memorized ones;so he is kind of stagnant at just under 2nd grade level. I have "Upside Brilliance...VSL." Will it tell me in there? I haven't gotten far enough into it yet. I am looking for more instant gratification/answers. Thank you!
