Ive posted about DS2 a few weeks ago. He was struggling to see digraphs in words and was just sounding out each word individually. I got some fantastic help and we've been spotting them in words and he has been highlighting them.
They have apparently done a reading test on him at school and he didn't do very well so they've put him back down a couple of levels to red. Im absolutely fine with that as thats clearly where he needs to be. We've worked out that he seems to be able to read absolutely fine when the words are in context but not when they are on their own. For example he read "They went to London on an underground train. The escalator went down and down deep underground. In London they went to visit a museum. In the museum there were very big dinosaurs that roared and made mummy jump" or words to that effect. Yet if I showed him underground or museum on its own he wouldn't be able to read it...and according to school he needs to be able to.
We've been doing lots of practise and it seems to be all the vowel digraphs that he can't do:air, ear, ur, er, ure. Im wondering if he almost can't hear them sound differently...Going to try to get his hearing tested but can't get into GP to get a referral. Ive just ordered some Songbirds books to practise but to get the sounds he can't do Ive had to go up to Level 6 but school are saying he is only level 2?
Secondly any ideas why he can't read the words on their own?
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Vowel Digraphs?
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ihearttc · 24/03/2016 19:45
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