To be concerned that my friends 7 year old is having trouble reading my DD's books

[milliec]

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how many time has your dd 'read' the book?

I will almost gaurantee that shes not reading it....shes just remebering the words you say when she sees that picture on teh page.

ds2, who will be 7 in june says he doesn't knwo what a word says when he can't be arsed isn't interested.

God if I ask my DS1 (also 7) to sit and read with me he does "ok" - but by no means fabulous and seems to struggle with seemingly simple words, yet his reading book from school (and the books he's bringing home) say that he's doing well.

And when he picks up books and goes off and "reads" them on his own - and then I ask him what happened he's always manages to tell me pretty accurately (as well as most 7yr olds do LOL) what has happened.

when he reads to DS2 sometimes he "can't do it", and other times he whizzes through several books in one go.

Poor kid was probably bored!!!

FWIW - DS2 (4) can "read" some words too - he knows "yes" "no" "start" "select" and other such words.......well he knows what they look like and what they do on the computer/ps2 games - but can't actulaly "read" them per se.

Maybe he'd never seen the words 'Peter' and 'Jane' before? I am 99.9% sure there isn't one book in our whole infants' school that has the words 'Peter' and 'Jane' in them.

Lots of children find boring repetitive stories with few words much harder to read than stories with longer words and more of a plot to get your teeth into. (I know the feeling)

And lots of children, boys in particular, only start learning to read when they're about 7. Ds is a bright well informed little boy, who is interesting to talk to, but his reading only really kicked off a few months ago, and he was 8 on Monday.

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Sorry , it is no true indicator either of his actual reading abilities or any problems. Your dd is undoubtedly familair with her books and probably memorises a lot int erms of shapes, pciture clues and order, as a prereading skills, and it is rather early for you to indulge in competitive parenting with your dd and an older child. He might be doing as fine in his context just as your dd does in hers.

YABU.

And a poor show-off.

none of your business

echoing previous posters here - and even if it WAS your business, how would you know how to assess a 7-year old child's reading and language skills? Unless you are a developmental psychologist specialising in language, I'd leave the testing to the experts...

Vegetables are for compaing.

Is this courgette bigger than its neigbhour? Shinier, firmer.

Not children.

If you feel the need to compare children at such a young age, it's time to get a hobby.

I suggest MNing .

LOL @ expat

LOL @ expat
Very unfair to the little, limp courgette who can't help himself

My 7 year DS could`nt read it

He is dyslexic

I would be really annoyed if someone like you put a book in front of him and asked him to read to a younger child.He would be so upset and embarrassed never mind the pressure he would of felt

How DARE you do this

YABNAI

NOYB

no you are not being unreasonable to be concerned but you are being unreasonable to be smug.

Sad courgettes need love, too.

OP , you are not listening.

Your DD is not reading, she has memorised the text by listening. What is to you what stage another child has reached wrt reading ??

Actually, I am going to PARP myself right now.

I don't really understand why YOU are so worried about it.

Leave the boy alone, I really don't understand why you posted this thread at all!!!

( she wanted to marry Chip - will remind her on her wedding day ).

mrsguyofgisborne- chip is girl u know

How odd to be comparing reading in two year olds at nursery!

dd2 has dozens of books memorized - am sure most kids do this . she is 3

2.7 !

My dds 3.4 (if we're being specific) and has much more exciting things to do with her day than read.. like destroyiong my garden and covering my kitchen with paint !

surely 2.7 year olds are not supposed to be learning to read ..

I would expect most 2 year olds to be at around the same level for reading too. In that they don't...

If she's only 2 and in nursery, then that means it's a private nursery, you know, where working parents leave their kids. So what are you doing hanging round it?

Parents don't even hang round my 4-year-old's nursery. They drop the kids off and leave. There's no time to compare because you're not there except at pick-up and drop-off.