di: Looking for curriculum advice for my first grade grandson

[Martha Gabler]

Hello Ronda,
I'm so glad you and your grandsons are enjoying Direct Instruction. I home-schooled my nonverbal son with severe autism using Direct Instruction, and we both loved it, plus he learned so much!
Congratulations on the amazing progress in reading and fluency that your grandsons have achieved. I'm not an expert, but you may wish to consider the DI Corrective Reading Comprehension series; the advanced levels teach sophisticated reading comprehension skills. There are also excellent DI curricula for writing (as in composing text), cursive handwriting, punctuation, spelling (probably not a high need for your grandsons), and the Earth Science Lessons in the Core Concepts in Science and Mathematics.
Best wishes to you and your family. With the social isolation rules currently in place we have turned to our DI programs to make use of my now-adult son's time.
Martha Gabler


-----Original Message-----
From: Ronda Wallace <wallace.rondaopal at gmail.com>
To: di <di at lists.uoregon.edu>
Sent: Thu, Mar 26, 2020 7:53 pm
Subject: di: Looking for curriculum advice for my first grade grandson


Greetings, 

I am teaching my two grandsons, ages 7 and 5 (first grade and pre-k). My 5 year old grandson is in RM fast cycle, lesson 121 (the Sid stories... IMHO the most difficult and frustrating in the entire book!). Because of the coronavirus we are actually doing two reading lessons and two math lessons a day for the months of March and April. At this rate we will probably be able to get into RMIII before the end of the year.  (Providing the silent “e” doesn’t ‘break his brain’ (his common lament the last couple of days!)  My aim is to have two strong readers because I had difficulties when I was young. 

My 1st grade grandson will finish Reading Mastery  Plus4 tomorrow. I have the materials for RM Plus 5 and plan to began that grade level immediately.  Owen actually reads without error at 195wpm. I think he could pretty easily skip to RM6, but I don’t want him to miss the content in RM5. 

So here’s the question: at this rate Owen will be finished with RM6 sometime in third grade. What then?  Do you have any suggestions for curriculum after the Reading Mastery series?  I would like to keep teaching them, as long as I am able (and they are willing!😂) 

Thank you for any suggestions you can give. I feel so comfortable with Direct Instruction. I would love to continue using this method if there is anything out there. 

Best,
Ronda Wallace

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