Comments on: Reading Disabilities: The Emotional Needs of Struggling Readers in Middle School http://www.reading2008.com/blog/reading-disabilities-the-emotional-needs-of-struggling-readers-in-middle-school.htm A Blog by Dr. Howard Margolis & Dr. Gary G. Brannigan Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:37:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Forex Black Panther – My Understanding Connected with Recreation Solution | Swimming http://www.reading2008.com/blog/reading-disabilities-the-emotional-needs-of-struggling-readers-in-middle-school.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2859 Forex Black Panther – My Understanding Connected with Recreation Solution | Swimming Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:12:08 +0000 http://www.reading2008.com/blog/?p=1992#comment-2859 [...] Reading Disabilities: The Emotional Needs of Struggling Readers in Middle School... [...] [...] Reading Disabilities: The Emotional Needs of Struggling Readers in Middle School… [...]

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]]> By: Michelle Breum http://www.reading2008.com/blog/reading-disabilities-the-emotional-needs-of-struggling-readers-in-middle-school.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2828 Michelle Breum Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:42:37 +0000 http://www.reading2008.com/blog/?p=1992#comment-2828 I'm currently tutoring a second grader with emotional issues related and unrelated to reading. He is on medication. I'm not sure which type. His mom said he has two pills before school to help him focus. He sees a therapist and may have bipolar. His mom plans to discuss a way to use his medication, so it doesn't wear off by 3:45. We have two 30 minute session per week. His parents are divorced and dad doesn't want to increase medication. I also tutor his sister who is one year younger. We have separate sessions. I listen when he says some books are too babyish. I've given him a choice in his work by eliminating the series of books he thinks are too babyish and only use them with his sister. This has helped. Thank you for your post. I will refer to it often, as I find the right approach to teach. I'm up to the challenge and know it will be worth it in the end. One question: Do you have any advice on things to say to calm my student down? Sometimes my student gets in a loop of thinking. He cries and says he hates this tutoring, he can do harder stuff than this, his anger and sadness causes him to be in a place where he cannot learn. I plan to have a variety of activities and books available to have option when one activity isn't working. Two sessions ago I stopped the session, because my student could not calm down. We made an agreement that day to stop using the books he didn't like. I continued the session yesterday, but I'm not sure how much he learned. I didn't want him to think I'm going to give up. I’m currently tutoring a second grader with emotional issues related and unrelated to reading. He is on medication. I’m not sure which type. His mom said he has two pills before school to help him focus. He sees a therapist and may have bipolar. His mom plans to discuss a way to use his medication, so it doesn’t wear off by 3:45. We have two 30 minute session per week. His parents are divorced and dad doesn’t want to increase medication. I also tutor his sister who is one year younger. We have separate sessions. I listen when he says some books are too babyish. I’ve given him a choice in his work by eliminating the series of books he thinks are too babyish and only use them with his sister. This has helped.
Thank you for your post. I will refer to it often, as I find the right approach to teach. I’m up to the challenge and know it will be worth it in the end.

One question: Do you have any advice on things to say to calm my student down? Sometimes my student gets in a loop of thinking. He cries and says he hates this tutoring, he can do harder stuff than this, his anger and sadness causes him to be in a place where he cannot learn. I plan to have a variety of activities and books available to have option when one activity isn’t working. Two sessions ago I stopped the session, because my student could not calm down. We made an agreement that day to stop using the books he didn’t like. I continued the session yesterday, but I’m not sure how much he learned. I didn’t want him to think I’m going to give up.

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