My dear sweet son started the 6th grade yesterday. Deep breath. I can hardly beleive I have an 11 year old son. (Of course my 70 year old mother can hardly beleive she has a 44 year old daughter either.)
My son goes to a special school for kids who struggle with language processing disorders. Grayson has a hard time with something the school psychologists and testing gurus call "fluency". This means that he has a hard time remembering order or remembering what came before and what comes next. Reading is very difficult for him as he often does not remember what happened on the page before the one he is reading now.
He loves story and he loves to be read to. I often re-cap and retell chapters so he can remember them. We still enjoy quiet time in the evening reading together before bed. I love it.
He decided a few weeks ago that he wanted to read all three of the Harry Potter books that he has not read (I have read the first four to him) himself--starting with the biggest and the baddest: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (number 5 in the series) He wants to finish them by the time the last movie comes out in the theaters in November of 2010. Many of you probably have very smart children and reading the Harry Potter series was easy for them, but for my kid, this is a big deal. It will probably take him most of the school year to get through number 5. Stay tuned for our updates. Perhaps I will get him to blog about the experience. It should be a great party when we finish them.
2 comments:
Good for Grayson! I think it would be awesome to hear his thoughts and comments on book #5.
I loved the HP books. Still, I think all readers are challenged by the elevated level of language that Rowlings uses in this series. Mixed too with those across the seas references to ways of life.
What a great goal too!
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Yay! This is a big deal! I can't wait to read the updates! Go Grayson!
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