Sorry if this is flogging a dead horse but DH I I had quite a heated debate, as Mrs Merton would have said, about this last night.
DS1 is 5.6 and is in yr 1 at school. He started school in Jan 05 so only did about 7 months in reception as opposed to a full academic year (they have a staged intake system around here - the younger ones start after Christmas).
He couldn't read at all before starting school and showed no interest in it at all, although he loves being read to and has a story book every night at bedtime.
During his time in reception he did quite well at learning his letters, can write his name (although his handwriting's appalling - but that's another matter), recognise a few words etc, but I wouldn't say he learned to read as such.
Now in Year 1, it almost seems as though he has regressed. We tried to keep up his reading during the holidays but the school didn't send home any books from the reading scheme and I couldn't find anything similar at the library, so we stuck mainly to learning the 45 words he was supposed to know by the end of reception year. But I'm not sure he's actually learning them - his home reader last night had 'Dad and Tom' on page one, which he struggled with but eventually got, and then 'Dad and Tom' was over the page again and it was as though he'd never seen the words before, although he'd only read them 30 secs previously!
Now I know boys learn differently to girls and I have been told by teacher friends not to worry too much before age 7, but my DH is getting annoyed that DS1 seems not to be progressing, and his anxiety is affecting me (and worse, DS1, I think).
What are other parents' experiences of teaching boys to read? Does it just suddenly 'click' with them one day? What can I/we do to make it easier?
He's learning to read using Jolly Phonics by the way, which seems fine for learning his letters but not for recognising words, IMO.
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Wordsmith · 27/09/2005 10:17
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