Those pre-reading activities and active reading strategies are great ideas. Thanks.
Do you know anything about improving working memory, rather than just adjusting other areas to compensate? I feel like I've gotten a lot of conflicting messages about this.
I'm hoping this OG-based tutoring will help sooner rather than later. She really wants to read. A few weeks ago, I was laying next to her before bed, because we always have quiet "reading time" before bed, even my littles who can't actually read yet. After a few minutes, DD threw her book across the room and just spat out something like, "It's not fair! I have tried and tried and still can't read! It's just not fair that I'm stuck just looking at dumb pictures and still can't read! I'm just never going to be able to read!" I was so sad for her. I don't feel like a kid should be so discouraged about reading at this age. But I think that, to her, it does feel like she's been trying to learn practically forever. She's been asking to learn to read since she was three, so half her lifetime already! lol. Ah well. Eventually we'll get there!
