I wanted to link to a great blog called The Reading Sage written by a public school teacher that does a great job teaching reading and getting kids that have fallen behind or have special needs caught up to grade level (and often above) in one year.
Sean was nice enough to give me some tips for teaching my son to read and suggested ways to create a great reading curriculum, learn to draw inferences, and learn to love reading. If all teachers were like Sean Taylor, we wouldn't be homeschooling! Please check out his blog. Here are some of his favorite books for building a reference library for homeschooling, there are some wonderful suggestions there.
My favorite suggestion from Sean was to give the Geekling tons of joke books to help with inferences (drawing conclusions from things not specifically stated). I was amazed no one had suggested this before! It's such a natural way to teach him to look for meaning beneath the surface in a fun way. Poetry is great for this as well. He has some trouble with "pragmatics" due to his Aspergers so even though he sounds like an adult when we speaks and has a huge vocabulary, we go to Speech and Language Therapy and work on certain skills because it makes certain parts of Reading Comprehension difficult.
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