I'm a little confused about my DS#1's reading. He's 11 and not a terribly enthusiastic reader. He had until recently a reading age of 11.1. With some concerted effort on my/his/schools part it has risen a great deal. He's reading the Dark Materials books atm and it's slow progress. I have to make him read - teacher tells me reading for pleasure should be a habit by now . Not sure the words 'should' and 'reading for pleasure' belong in the same sentence but still.... And just the other day she wrote in his record book : "Beautifully read X, fluently and with great expression. But you must start to make faster progress through the book or you will start to fall back". What does she mean by that? Either he's reading well or he isn't surely. Then she added "Make sure you reach page 100 by Friday". This was written on Tuesday and he was on page 24. I really do like this teacher generally but she does have a bit of a bee in her bonnet about reading re DS#1.
Can anyone explain please.
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OrmIrian · 19/06/2008 17:14
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