Finally Getting It

Mr. Butler has been behind in reading pretty much since he started school. He struggles with reading and spelling. He has been in resource since 2nd grade to help him with spelling and trying to get him up to grade level in reading.

Yesterday I met with his teacher, his resource teacher and her student teacher, and the principal. Mr. Butler is doing really well. He is at grade level now, and is just a tiny bit behind the "average" for 4th grade in both reading and spelling, but at least he's finally reading 4th grade books.

Since the first of the year, things have really seemed to click for him. He's getting good grades on his reading and vocabulary tests each week, and has been scoring almost perfect on his spelling tests. He finally "gets it". It's like something magical happened to the boy over the Christmas break. Something just "clicked" for him, and we are all very happy.

It's so good to see him excited about the good grades he's been getting because he's struggled for so long. He actually likes to read now; he reads every night at bed time. The teacher said Mr. Butler has seemed to mature a lot over the last several weeks. Everyone involved is very happy to see him progressing so well. And his mom more so than any one else!