My youngest DD(4.6),started school in september, just 4, (her school start all reception children in Sept). She has had no problems learning phenomes, but is having difficulty with blending. She has the first pack of words for 6 weeks, the teacher keeps returning the pack with a message "she needs to stop reading the words backwards". She blends words like sit,sat,it,as. The words that can be reversed like tap, pin, she reads as pat and nip. For all the practise and times she reads them she always reverses them. I ask if she's getting help at school with her blending, she says "no". She's getting upset and panicky now about not being able to do it so I've turned it into a game to keep her interest. She's in a very difficult class with all teacher and TA resources going into very difficuly characters in class. She's has 3 ear infections in 4 months so wonder if this has affected her. Would you be worried as she seems to be making little progress in blending ? Thanks, and I've got a meeting with her teacher next Wednesday.
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LindyHemming ·
19/01/2011 20:28
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