exodus4 wrote:Thank you so much for your response ! I too feel LHFHG is best for him , but what do I use for his advanced reading & spelling skills ?
I am interested to hear from other people who use LHFHG with advanced children in these areas. I guess I will continue what I was doing until now which was CLP Building Spelling Skills and maybe find a reading program such as Rod & Staff which I heard is great for kids with speech delay ?
I have many of the readers from Emerging reader packages and although he could read them very easily , he would not understand what happens in the story so at this point it would be useless to make him read them. I am also very weak in English , first because this is not my native tongue ( English is my 3rd language ) and second my brain is more mathematical than linguistic . Therefore I really need a hands-holding program that tells me what questions to ask ( possibly the answers too ) .
Would this be too much if I add to LHFHG ?
Also ,I have another question . From the samples I see some of the questions .They seem very analytical and I like that. Do all the readers & read aloud books have questions ? Are the answers somewhere in the guide?
I agree with the PPs, that LHFHG could be a good fit for him, specifically because of the attention that will be given to his listening comprehension skills. The first half is Bible stories with pictures, which would be a good support for him. The storytime books would be more challenging, but if you need to go more slowly through LHFHG just to address his comprehension skills, you can
. There are no answers in the guide for the read-alouds, which is fine because you're the one doing the reading so you can figure it out together, or read the questions yourself the night before, just to make sure you know what the queston is asking
. Here is a recent thread that addresses the topic of listening skills in LHFHG.
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9508&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
I am also a speech-language pathologist who used to work in public schools, and I think that LHFHG is excellent for developing those skills. I agree with the PP, if you can possibly do it, get just the guide for Beyond as well, and then you can use that for the ER schedule and questions. There are no answers in the guide, but they're generally easy to figure out because he's reading aloud to you. Again, you can look them over the night before if needed. I recently finished the ER set with my son, and I highly recommend that you go through it with your son to build his comprehension skills. Starting with books that are easy for him to read, like one of the Bibles or the Frog and Toad type books would be great, because you know he can decode them, and you can just work on his understanding of what he reads. You can go slower than the schedule too, as it's in the appendix and not tied to any particular day. So if you need to slow down and read only half of the scheduled pages when the comprehension is more difficult, then you can do that. You are in a unique, God-given position to help your son learn, and he is so blessed to have such a caring mom! You will be doing more than any SLP can do in a weekly session, through your homeschool!
The spelling in Beyond is very simple to do as well, but you could certainly substitute in another program very easily. There are 2 lists in Beyond, and the next level is dictation in the Bigger Hearts guide, so it's possible he's at a higher level than the spelling in Beyond anyhow. HTH
