Hi all,
DC is in year 1 and I'm a little concerned. He's reading ORT books most of the time. He's got up to orange level but these are not songbirds so although he can decode some unfamiliar words a lot is now through repetition. He isn't encoding as well as I'd expect considering he is in the top group (I wonder if he's actually struggling and we need to slow it down for him). He's struggled with split digraphs in his writing/spellings but can normally work them out and point them out in his reading. I also find that he is not encoding with the correct sounds and it's as though he can not hear the sounds i.e anvencher for adventure (i'd have taken advencher). He was given a book today to practise a sound and the 3 different variations but to be honest I would have expected him to be able to spell words with that first grapheme for that sound but he's not even that far along. When they give him the spellings they are flitting around with all the different variations. It feels a bit hard for him to grasp so many different alternatives in his spellings and he doesn't get given many of the high frequency words. I'm waffling and not explaining this but phonics seems to be getting way more complex than perhaps it needs to be. Would he not be able to recall more easily the sound and the correct grapheme if he had say 6 or 7 with the same spelling and a couple of tricky words with the alternative another week?
Thanks for any thoughts.
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Should spellings be at a level to support reading in year 1.
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atiredmum · 17/01/2012 22:34
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