Hi, I was hoping some teachers could explain this to me and hopefully reassure me.
Ds has a spelling age of 8.8 years and reading comprehension Accuracy age of 9.10 years. He's in year 7 and 11.8 years.
His spelling and reading age have only increased by a few months since year 5. He has has some wave 3 interventions and precision teaching in the past. (Read write inc and accelaread/write). He is very behind his literacy target that they get in English.
When he types (he has a laptop for school) and indeed if he ever hand writes (unusual!) he spends a lot of time asking how to spell simple words or trying to phonic tidally work out how to spell words. He is getting better at phonetically plausible spellings and is almost able to get the correct amount of syllables in words.
I am extremely concerned about this as feel it will affect him across the curriculum and as language gets more complicated it'll lessen his ability to access the curriculum. Eg taking longer to read text, limits his understanding of complex text and/or exam questions and also where he already struggles to produce written text at an age appropraute level it will hinder him further when so much effort goes into spelling simple words.
I've been told it's fine and stop worrying. I know I should but can someone please explain why it won't be an issue just to further put my mind at rest.
Thanks in advance for responding as I know teachers have enough to do already
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Spelling and reading comprehension age - do they really matter?
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Youarentkiddingme · 21/04/2016 18:05
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