As term is finishing I’m wondering what to do with reading for dd over the summer.
She’s 5 and while no teacher has heard her read since March she’s been progressing with advice on here and I’ve moved her steadily through the school reading scheme she was on when she last had a school reading book in March.
Her decoding is easily at orange level and I can see her comprehension is very good (older dd was more fluent but struggled with comprehension).
Where my reception dd still seems to struggle is fluency - I’ve posted a few times about this and she definitely is getting much better. At one stage there were huge gaps between words as she was decoding. Now she decodes almost completely in her head and the gaps between words are shorter.
If I ask her to go back and read in her story telling voice (as recommended on here) she can do it to an ok level eg if a character is sad she will do a sad voice or if there’s an exclamation mark she will do ‘excited’. She can make the sentences sound coherent then.
But she never seems to be able to read a sentence that fluently first off! Am I missing a trick here? How can I help her become more fluent?
I’m assuming best to stay on orange while her fluency is improving?
Or have I moved her on too fast and should drop her back a band to help her with fluency?
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Reading fluency reception- advice please
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Onceuponatimethen · 17/07/2020 21:28
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