DS2 is still 4 (August baby).
It's nearly the end of Reception, and he is still struggling with reading. Against national average he is OK (ORT level 3) but compared to his class mates he is at the very bottom.
I am struggling so much with this. We do reading every day. We have all the key words on a board and try to play games with them.
But he just doesn't seem to 'get it' really.
We can read a sentence with a word like 'down' in - he'll struggle, we'll sound it out, say, it, repeat it, read the sentence again etc. And then if it's on the next page again he doesn't recognise it!
My eldest son was such a fluent reader at the same age - we didn't ever really need to 'teach' him.
Will DS2 ever catch up?
Will he be left behind forever?
Should I be doing anything else to help?
I need reassuring stories and noises here please...
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NormaSnorks · 22/06/2007 10:51
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