At what age is the average person supposed to be proficient at reading in general?

[luckyse7enz]

Had to hurry up and get to end of this thread real quick. I'm 25 and have taught in a classroom where 1st graders use Macbooks during their morning routine) but I know how mind-blowing it is to see a kid that can't read. It's more heart-breaking meeting high-schoolers who can't read because you know they're on borrowed time.

Comic books probably aren't going to be the answer yet because he doesn't sound like he has an understanding of WORDS that he needs to know yet. Forming sentences from Marvel/DC comic books isn't going to happen anytime soon, breh...

However, here's a few simple tips that could help him along his way and you can pass them to his Mom because it's what he'll be needing in school, more than likely. I'll keep it pretty brief and hope it helps.

1. Dolch Sight Words. They're basically words that kids are supposed to learn according to their grade level. Kids often get evaluated based on how many of these words they know.

Spoiler

Dolch Word Lists

They go from pre-school to Grade 3. Either print them off or just write them down in two places (one for him and one for yourself to take note) and keep going over the words with him and note which ones he doesn't know.

Go over the ones he doesn't know and once he can get through the list w/o messing up, move on to the next list.

2. Starfall. Google it and put his ass on the computer. We made my niece get on there and she loved it so much that she'd come through and ask to use it on my computer. They can read stories and click each word they don't know if they need help. The program actually tells them and that's less that YOU actually have to do. Pretty soon, they're reading that shyt without having to click for help.

....but yeah, I know how you feel on the "It's not my responsibility. You can imagine how I feel. I teach and people in my fam are always trying to get me to take my free time and help their kids with ALL kinds of homework & projects. I'm just trying to chill but like everyone's been saying, a few minutes of your time won't hurt (especially with these two things).

Something'll click for him and he'll be like

...and you'll see some good grades and go

 

[Turenne]

Called my mom (his grandmother) and she basically said that she's raised her kids and that its my sisters responsibility. Had her on speaker so my nephew heard the whole convo. So after she hung up I'm like yo "Your moms don't give a shyt about u, ur grandma don't give a shyt about you, your pops is in jail and don't give a shyt about u, I'm the only person here willing to work with u man, so do u want me to help u? because if u don't then we don't ever have to do this ever again, but If u do then I'm willing to spend as long as it takes"

What the fukk is wrong with you...? Are you trying to mentally scar your nephew for life...?

 

[TYBG]

Not going through this whole thread but sometimes it's the teacher. Fortunately for me, the jr high I went to was awarded for great education. When it came to english, I learned more from my jr high than high school

I see folks struggling with basic english and writing in college too

 

[Mr swag]

i couldnt read till the 5th grade

no one thought me how not school or my parents


school thought my parents were and my parents thought the school was

 

[TYBG]

i couldnt read till the 5th grade

no one thought me how not school or my parents


school thought my parents were and my parents thought the school was

hope you trollin bruh

 

[Larry]

I see folks struggling with basic english and writing in college too

yup

I found out my girlfriend was dumb my first semester of college. we were taking the same English course, and I was helping her with our final while finishing my own.

I remember proof reading her paper like shorty had crazy run-on sentences, and her entire paper had no thesis. How the fukk do you write a paper without a thesis? She was jumping from here to there every paragraph with no point in sight. I couldn't believe an adult wrote that shyt..



It was pretty unbelievable to be quite honest. Not sure how she even got into that class to begin with.

 

[Ace Money]

Yo, I was watchin' The Nightly Buisniess Report on PBS, and I noticed a commercial plugging this website for K-12 educational resources: Homeschool, Afterschool, Summer Study - Time4Learning. I hope that this link is of some help, and I beg of you not to give up on your nephew.

 

[nyknick]

I was gonna come in and make an Uncle Tom joke but this is so fukking sad.

I know a five year old that can't read and feel he's already losing at life, but atleast I ain't trying to play Halo with him

 

[GhettoTeK]

^^ I'm a little bitter and mad at the world cause I ain't balling, making 6 figures and driving Lamborghinis bro


I can't save the world man.....gotta get myself straight before I can help others.


fuk them kids man, I only care about kids with terminal diseases, real spit, they're the ones who really have it hard


I'm not good at multitasking. Why spend hours reading with some kid when I could be playing PS3?

That nikka got a father who could be using his prison phone call time to help him read


Why I gotta be superman?

 

[GhettoTeK]

yup

I found out my girlfriend was dumb my first semester of college. we were taking the same English course, and I was helping her with our final while finishing my own.

I remember proof reading her paper like shorty had crazy run-on sentences, and her entire paper had no thesis. How the fukk do you write a paper without a thesis? She was jumping from here to there every paragraph with no point in sight. I couldn't believe an adult wrote that shyt..



It was pretty unbelievable to be quite honest. Not sure how she even got into that class to begin with.

 

[Serious]

i couldnt read till the 5th grade

no one thought me how not school or my parents


school thought my parents were and my parents thought the school was

at this apparent