As I have found out, memory and kineasthetic-type games I listed in the previous entry work well with primary and problematic students.

As the boy is not able to read, I have to teach him letters and sounds. Here I'm going to use some Montessori ideas. My children helped me to make "sand" (in my case "salt") letters. The idea is that tracing those letters kids remember them in the "motoric" way, associate the shape and the sound of a letter. I made Power Point presentations for different word combinations and positions of vowels. Also, Mr Thorn's video lessons are good for this pupose.

Combined with everything listed above, we'll use reading drills and simple books from the starfall site, and games from LearnEnglishKids.

I'll keep you posted!