Health problems caused Burger Sandenberg to lose a half-year’s work in Grade 1 and a whole term’s work in Grade 2. He started falling behind badly in reading and spelling.
“When reading, he had to sound every word, even those that he was supposed to know already,” his mother said. “Every Friday he wrote a spelling test, and then misspelled almost all the words. He could not write in cursive at all, and would not do any homework. He said he could not do it.
“His Grade 2 teacher called us in and said we must consider keeping him back. I could not keep my child back who had given up all his sport, which he enjoyed so much, and decided to send him to Edublox.”
It is only a few months later and Burger reads without sounding even a single word. “Every week he scores full marks for his spelling tests, as well as for maths. He has started writing in cursive and now does his homework without me having to tell him, as if he now enjoys it,” said an excited Mrs. Sandenbergh. “We still have a long way to go, but I can’t believe that he has made such fast and such drastic progress.”
After only a few months, Mrs. Bierman could also already see an improvement in her daughter’s reading and spelling. “Before I enrolled her at Edublox, Marné could not read at all,” she said. “She always mixed up b, d and p, and she saw only the first letter of a word and then guessed the rest. She read very slowly, and usually wrote mirror writing. She also had big problems with spelling.
“Marné does not write mirror writing at all any more and she also writes much more neatly. Her spelling has improved a lot. There are much fewer reversals, and although she still reads slowly, she now understands what she reads. She now enjoys taking books from the library and she now reads much more regularly.”
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