...and dont know where to start really
He is 7 and is now at a new (lovely) school after a bad experience at his old school.
He has the confidence knocked out of him wrt literacy and sort of "gave up". There were serious bullying issues too. He became so unhapy that I home schooled him for most of last year and he started his new school in November last year.
He has settled in very well
They have assessed him (he didnt do SATS as he wasnt in school at the time) and have no major concerns but he has got "gaps" in his knowledge wrt reading/spelling/writing.
His letter formations are very good. He knows all his letter sounds. However, his writing is HUGE and despite my (constant) reminders he is not making progress in writing any smaller. He also forgets his finger spaces a lot.
The teacher (who works with him 1-1 for 30 mins each friday) has also said he gets "i" and "e" mixed up and also sometimes struggles with "ch", "sh" and "th" (which surprises me as he was great on them a few months ago )
Anyway, I wondered if any of you had any ideas what I could do to help him with theses issues she has highlighted......games etc?
She suggested magnetic letters.....I have some but what do you do with them!? How will they help him???
He got the "boggle" game, Bananagrams and a gruffalo rhyming game for xmas which we havent really looked at yet...should i be using these and how often?
Thanks!
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Been told to do some word/letter work with ds1....
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becaroo · 20/01/2011 18:35
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