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Academic & Social

Skills Insights #37

By Rifka Schonfeld, Director of S.O.S.
(Strategies For Optimum Success)

Q: My second grader is struggling Literacy released the following
with reading Hebrew. He seems statement, “The ability to read
to be just below grade level and write is fundamental to full
with English reading, but he is
completely uninterested in kriyah.
has been transformed into one in
which economic, civic, and social

A: First, let me congratulate you on
addressing this issue when your son
is in second grade. Many parents
believe that the problem should Not only do children who read
correct itself, but in reality, the
longer we wait with reading (any all academic areas, they also are
language), the harder it becomes
for children to catch up.
more independent and therefore
Next, I wanted to outline the reasons
peers. Conversely, illiteracy has
we mistakenly think that reading
is a skill relegated to the academic
realm. We think, “So what if a child
doesn’t read at grade level? Maybe
he won’t do well in school, but “The link between academic failure
and delinquency, violence, and
In fact, research has shown that
literacy is directly connected to Of course, I am not saying that
because any child struggles with
reading that he will be a criminal –