taras reflection for graves' chapters 18-20

I was reading chapter 18 and I saw some examples of how children begin to spell and I couldnt help but notice that one of my kids at kapalama writes like a child in stage II. this boy in my class is really behind in his writing and my mentor teacher and I try to help him get better but he doesnt seem to care when we try to help him. he just wants us to help him spell the word and then he'll spell it right but next time around, he will spell the word wrong. he always spells his words with the first and last letter. most times its hard to read his paper because he only has the first and last letters. for example, the word brother will be spelt br and indian will be spelt in. lots of times, I have to ask him to read his paper for me and he cant either. theres 0nly so much my mentor teacher and I can do to help him, we think he needs to make an effort to want to learn how. this boy also goes to reading emphasis classes where another teacher teaches him how to read and put words together to make a sentence. but hes not making enough progress. I guess I have to try harder.