Kim,
Thank you for this story! I am always mortified when I hear people
say (authoritatively, no less) that if a child hasn't "learned to
read" by the end of 3rd grade he or she is doomed. Of course that
will be the case if we believe it to be and give up on the child. We
need stories like the one you have shared to counteract all those
baseless generalizations about human limitation.
--Ellen
At 7:24 AM -0400 9/4/09, kim lum wrote:
Just the other night as I met a young girl for my new
group, I remet her dad, a former student of mine. I reminded him that
he had become a reader during his year in fourth grade with me. He
smiled, and his wife said "And he hasn't stopped since." I was so
tickled to hear that statement. I had always thought that if kids
could not read by fourth grade, that there wasn't much hope. Well
twenty-seven years later I know differently. Never give up. There is
always hope.
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