I'm looking for some advice about my DS, who is in year 2. His reading and writing is really quite poor. I don't know whether he is really struggling or just choosing not to perform, but our reading practice at home is really stressful for us all.
Anyway. He has always been into numbers, and loves maths. In fact at one point he wanted to do sums before bed instead of stories, and thanks to some helpful advice on here we found some great stories that involve solving maths problems to solve a mystery. Perfect for him.
A friend of mine is looking at schools for her DS rand showed me a maths entrance exam for Christ's Hospital. It is for year 7 entry. I was pretty stunned because my DS could do it all. In fact, he got really excited about it and we did it together. Well, I watched whilst he calculated stuff in his head. I'm really quite stunned.
In his last report at school it said that he is below age expectations for literacy and above for maths, so I was aware of there being a difference but I am pretty stunned at his maths ability.
What, if anything, can I do to support him? Specifically, I want him to improve his literacy skills without boring him to do death. He tells me that he thinks phonics is dull and in fact his little brother probably knows more than he does. He has always tried to memorise words and guess them from the pictures rather than decode them.
It's parents evening soon and I don't know whether to tell his teacher about his rather extreme in maths or what I have discovered about his ability. She is lovely and very approachable but I don't know whether to just leave it to her.
Incidentally, his vocabulary is excellent and he often shows great insight; I'm just getting very worried about his lack of reading and writing.
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Year 2 DS - vast difference between maths and english
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Llareggub · 05/10/2013 21:02
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