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Parent: "I see you got another D in English this quarter. What's the problem?" Youngster: "Dad, I hate English, it's sooo boring!" Sound familiar? Many parents (and most English teachers) have heard this complaint. How can children "hate" and do poorly in a subject that they, their parents and peers speak every day? It's the only language most of them have ever known. Certainly, English is a difficult subject for students who have reading disabilities. (Research suggests the number may be as high as 20 percent of the general student population.) For these children, the language facility hard-...