I spent an extended session with an 8 year old student of mine today. He spent several minutes explaining, with remarkable detail, about a black lab named "Shadow", the family dog. How the dog was running through a field... a farmer took two shots with a rifle... the other dog was killed- but not the dog they named "Shadow". It was a very sweet story, with smiles and other gestures. After all of our drills with the blending board etc., near the end of the session, a couple of hours later, I asked him to write, as best he could, the story he had told me earlier. The result was one sentence of 13 words, 9 were misspelled.
This is one of the challenges we face- with these little people we call our children, these little symbols we call letters... explaining in detail, what we see in our minds.
Einstein was a dyslexic man who was able to bridge this gap- this chasm with the language of letters, numbers, and mathematics...
(See Einstein Link Below)
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