A GREAT teacher

My daughter just started 4th grade and she was very nervous about it, but she is always nervous at the start of the new year. My little secret is, I was really nervous too. I know what 4th grade is like and I have been worried about how she will do with this tougher school work. I tried to make sure I had everything ready and set for her but you just never know what you might be missing.

Her first week of school she got in the car when I picked her up and she started doing her homework. She had to write 6 sentences about the story they read in class. Sigh. I was so nervous for her, that she would be stressed out about it but we got home and she finished her sentences. Later that evening she asked if she could read to me what she wrote, and I said "of course". This is what she wrote....

She did an excellent job on her sentences, she said exactly what happened in the story. But....look at her spelling errors. Now, any parent of a dyslexic student at this point might get very worried, all that red ink (or whatever color the teacher uses) all over the paper, handing it back to the student and maybe even making her re-write it, we all know how that student would now feel, and it's heartbreaking.

So the next day she brings home her paper and this is what it says on the front...

She didn't have to rewrite it, there were no marks on the sentences in the back, just that big 100 and Awesome work kiddo! I am still beaming about this paper.

Any guesses on how this happened? You're right, my daughters teacher understands dyslexia! She knows what dyslexia is and she knows how to accommodate in her classroom! She didn't grade on spelling, she graded on content! I love my daughters teacher.

I will say it again...Teacher training is so important!