My 5 yo DS is in year one. He is a summer baby but after a slow start his reading really seems to have taken off. Since Christmas he has been bringing home progressively harder reading books in higher and higher colour bands. I was beginning to wonder what his teacher's criteria was for moving children up as I didn't see how he could be making progress that quickly (although as I said, he seemed to be handling the text reasonably well) So yesterday at pick up time I was waiting in his classroom for him to pick some new reading books as he very proudly has just informed me he was now on gold level. His teacher walked past and I asked if that was the case? She looked shocked and said "no!" She didn't know off hand what reading level he was on, so she got her list out and eventually told me he should actually be on turquoise level. In other words my DS has been administering his own reading scheme for the past 3 months!! When I told his teacher this she just shrugged and said "how has he been handling the more advanced books?" and when I told her that he seemed ok she just nonchalantly shrugged and said "oh well, give him a go with gold then" and disappeared. I am very confused! DS decodes reasonably well but he doesn't read punctuation and he is still quite stilted when reading out loud. I have no idea what level he should be on and I feel his teacher has just left it to me to assess him! I feel like his teacher doesn't really care, but maybe I'm placing too much importance on levels. I'm also quite shocked that DS has been lying to me for the past 3 months and that no one at school has picked up on this! He really enjoys reading and burst into tears when I asked him about it. I think he just desperately wants to be on gold but wouldn't it be better for him in the long run if he were on a lower reading level? I don't want to discourage him though....
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DS has been lying about his reading level
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MarshaMallow84 · 08/03/2016 11:49
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