Ds is in y1. His reading level is fine - only fine bumbling along the national average. His teacher however said she's getting concerned with his writing and spelling.
At the beginning of the year he mixed up a lot of letters, mainly got b's and d's mixed up. However at patents evening tonight she says now he's not improved on this at all. He also still spells out his words purely phonetically even though he can read the words. Some are really common words like spelling 'said' as 'sed' or 'house' as 'hows' etc. He can read them but can't seem to put them into practice when writing a sentence.
The teacher says its really holding back his progress. To be honest, I can't help comparing him to my dd when she was that age and the difference is huge
The teacher is suggesting I do daily writing and spelling practice at home. She has put big 'b' and 'd' letters all over the classroom and has tried to focus more on the words with certain letters in - but she says he'll understand then go and write them purely phonetically all incorrect again within moments.
She seemed interested in the fact I mentioned that he's always making little books of drawings - but makes them so they read backwards. His pencil control is excellent.
She says she's not worried yet but is watching for signs of dyslexia.
Has anyone else been through similar? I'm a bit baffled as we work really hard at home with reading and writing etc and have done from a young age. Is the teacher doing enough? What else could/should she
be doing?
It's like all his learning isn't joined up. One minute I'm thinking, he's only 5 - but the next I'm thinking, oh no I'm one of ^those^ who failing their child
(Or that may just be me being very dramatic!)
It's hard to read things on MN sometimes because all I seem to read about are the children reading Roald Dahl independently at nursery or something
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Feel a bit low after parents eve - ds needs help with writing.
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harryhausen · 19/03/2013 22:24
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