A New Start For A Child

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A New Start For A Child

  • November 3, 2021
  • Posted by: Caitlin McCallum
  • Category: Wow Story
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We had a student start in our school at age 7 ½ who had not previously been in the education system. The student came to us without knowing his letters, and was unable to count past 4. He was placed in the grade level that suited beginning instruction and saw me 4 times a week to work on phonemic awareness and other beginning skills, including holding a pencil and building up the stamina and hand strength for writing his name.

I have now worked with this student for a year. Although he was not able to skip grade levels to join his same AGED peers, he was able to make progress with his GRADE LEVEL peers and was promoted to the next grade. All of these gains were made in the school year during the pandemic, with quarantines, and uncertainty, and additional stress. I continue to work with him, and he has made so much progress that he scored in the 87nd percentile for his grade level for reading on the MAP reading test. I am very proud of his hard work.

I am so blessed to have been able to serve him so that he could receive a Christian education!

~written by Becky Warnasch, LSEM teacher at Zion Lutheran School in Georgetown, TX