Kumon??? I have a couple of questions can someone please help me

[sparklesandwine]

I don't know anything about Kumon but have heard of it so need a little help

A friend of mine's daughter, who is 8, is falling behind in English and she is trying to find a way to help her progress forward, would Kumon help her? TBH her DD hasn't really progressed since year 1 but they can not figure out why and she is now in year 4

My friend is desperate to help her child but I don't know what to suggest to her if Kumon wouldn't help does anyone know what might

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Kumon Maths is good -but Kumon English is bad; it's a dire 'mixture of methods'. What your friend's daughter needs is a tutor who uses a real synthetic phonic intervention programme such as the Oxford Sound Reading System.

If she contacts [email protected] she'll be able to tell her if there is an OSR tutor nearby.

Information about OSR here:
www.aowm73.dsl.pipex.com/dyslexics/resources_and_further_16.htm

I can answer this one - ds (aged 8) was doing Kumon English for 18 months before we stopped it just at the beginning of this month.

We started him doing it for a very specific reason - which was his reluctance to write. He has always been a good reader, with good comprehension too, but just wouldn't write (not a physical problem, his handwriting is fine - it was the boring process of it he wouldn't do).

Kumon English worksheets are very based on recording (sometimes only just copying over) written words. So it did help ds's particular writing logjam - but really any steady regular routine of simple unchallenging writing practice would have done that; we used Kumon just so that someone else was in charge of setting the worksheets and moving him through the levels.

It taught him a bit of old-fashioned grammar (parts of speech, etc.) which is nice; but Kumon absolutely doesn't inspire original thinking (or writing, or reading) and we stopped it because it was time for ds to start being original.

OK thankyou for coming back to me

I'll give my friend this info and she can find out more for herself i guess

Thanks