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I am needing some help for a web site or program that will help my First grader with her reading and comprehension.

We are having a very diffucult time in the first grade. She is Kinesthetic. I am getting no help from her teachers. They are going to fail her this year if we don’t find something soon.
I have asked them for help and am getting no where.

Help please with suggestions or knowledge.

Thank you

Here is my class website. I have a list of both Reading and Math sites that I reccomend for my first graders. http://www.berkeley.k12.sc.us/webpages/skavanaugh/resources.cfm
Do you know what reading program the school uses? Many programs have websites that have games or other support materials. Does your child bring home decodable books? Is she having trouble actually reading or just comprehending? If she is having trouble reading I suggest working on sight words. Here are three great links. I know it really stinks that you have to do all this on your own, your child’s teacher should be providing you with some help.

www.carlscorner.us.com
www.kellyskindergarten.com
http://www.theschoolbell.com/Links/Dolch/Contents.html

Since you said your daughter is a kinisthetic learner I would suggest investing in the game Twister, sidewalk chalk, magnetic letters or some other letter tiles, play-doh, and index cards. You can do so much with these things. For Twister…you can make index cards or print some from one of the sites above and lay or tape them to circles on the mat. When you call a color combo your daughter has to read the word on the mat in order to move there. This can be done not only with just words, but also with other things like: contractions, compound words, letter sounds, words (ask for definition), setting/characters/plot (write those words on index cards & place them on the spots, then make up a quick little story only a few sentences and ask your daughter the setting if that’s the card on the spot) and much more. You can do the exact same thing with chalk making a hopscotch board. It’s also fun to write in chalk so you could spell words using chalk on black paper or on the sidewalk. Play-doh and magnetic letterrs will give your daughter a hands on way to practice building words or making words and practicing segmenting the word.

My last suggestion is getting teachers resource book with poems. I have a sight word poetry book and another which I blow up to poster size. We practice one poem a week. We find special words or rhymes, look at punctuation, and make movements to the poem. By practicing over and over again you are building fluency.

Good luck! I hope some of these ideas are helpful!