I'm a bit baffled by this and just wondering if I need to be concerned.
Ds is 5 and in year 1. He's an able reader (currently bringing home white band books from school). Teachers hae never mentioned any concerns. However when he had an assessment (informal - a friend did it for us as he is particularly able in numeracy and we wondered how able. She also checked his reading) we were told that he reads well but as he has an excellent (possibly photographic)memory he remembers how the words look rather than sounding out.
I have tried to get him to sound out more at home but he gets very frustrated. After reading on here how important phonics is, I tried him with the phonics screening test from last year. (No flaming please he was perfectly happy to do it!) and he would clearly have failed. He was fine on all the real words (slightly suspect with 'portrait') but struggled sounding out a lot of the pseudo words. He would have had about 25.
Now I know he's a bit young to be taking it as its usually end of yr 1. But because he's on 'white' and school say he's a great reader, no problems, I'm wondering how he can't do phonics as well? Would you be concerned at the disparity? I find out this week too that he's been selected with one other child to be a reading helper at school, too.
Thank you for any opinions!
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Good reader (y1) not so good at phonics
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Cat98 · 06/11/2013 19:56
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