My DD1 (aged 4;02) just started reception.
She's a good reader (self motivated). They've obviously picked up on this and put her straight on ORT level 3 books.
Some of the books have seemed challenging (vocab like "measurements") but others don't challenge her at all. She's just changed her books for the week and is easily capable of reading all (three) of them with inflection. There are no unfamiliar words for her in any of them, unlike the books she had last week.
Does each level of the ORT have different levels of difficulty within it? These books are much less challenging yet still level 3.
Also, she is repeating work she was doing in nursery this time last year. They are concentrating on 4 letter sounds and we have to think of something beginning with that letter and take in an object.
I don't object to this because it's too easy for her, I just don't understand why we are doing this all over again 12 months later.
I'm not a teacher so I don't understand the reasoning behind this. I'm sure there must be a good reason but all I can see is my daughter repeating last year's work.
Can anyone explain - should she be challenged a bit more than this given that she's gone into reception with this level of literacy skill?
I'm not going to pick the teacher up on it - but we have parents' evening next month and I'd like to know whether I ought to be askign these questions.
Thanks.
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alison56 · 22/09/2009 22:52
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