I'm not sure if this is usual so thought I'd ask.
Ds began a new school just over a year ago, half way through Y3. He was given a reading test and basically told to get any book he liked; he chose one that happened to be a stage 15, the teachers disagreed that he was ready, and he was put back to stage 12.
These proved quite a bit too easy, and he was put back up to stage 13 or 14, where he stayed for a year until this week - suddenly the present teacher has realised he can read pretty well, he's reading 20-50 pages on his own most nights (David Walliams/Jeff Kinney) so he's finally been allowed on to stage 15.
The thing is, he told me that he was on stage 14 for so long because the TA last year told him that if he went onto stage 15, they would run out of books to give him.
This surprised me a bit as I thought children should be on books that challenge them a bit, but I can understand if the school was trying to pace him or something.
Is this what often happens? Surely they just move on to free reading when they have finished the ORT?
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Keeping a child back because there aren't enough stages
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PippaHotamus · 11/02/2016 17:57
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