To stop reading with ds?

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Honestly, I am aware of how important it is. But it is an unbelievably frustrating experience and I am worried it’s putting him off reading more than anything else. Would actually really welcome advice on to how to make it less arduous 😩😩

You read a page then he reads a page.
Find books on things he is interested in, such as sport or dinosaurs.
As long as he is reading it doesn’t have to be a book,
play rhyming games, matching word/sound games, label items around the house.
Try making reading more pleasurable, spend ten minutes where you are both reading quietly, he can just be looking at book, have snacks, then talk about what you have just read.

What an unpleasant post.

DS’s teacher is the one who has said he’s behind, actually, and not that it matters particularly but the only two children on a reading level about him are boys.

@Wallywobbles doing more harm than good is a worry of mine.

@Sartre how can he read regular books if he can’t read yet? It’s like learning an instrument and complaining the scales are tedious, why don’t you just play Beethoven’s fifth with him?

Reading practice for him is homework.
You wouldn't make him do any other kind of homework at bedtime.
Leave bedtime for fun stories that you read and use a much earlier time for reading practice.

You can also do fun games eg

• phonics cards into a cereal postbox if he knows them
• words of things on cards that he then has to find around the house

@TeensNoMore i really do try but am unsure of when else I would fit it in. That’s not an excuse, or not deliberately anyway. Reading is a bit different because it involves so much concentration on his behalf so ideally needs to be done with no other distractions.

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We used teach your monster in lock down, it worked a treat.

It may not be possible for you, but we used to do it after breakfast but before school for 5-10 minutes. We built the extra time into the schedule.
We did pretty much the same at weekends and in school holidays.

Because you teach him to read with normal books. All of my DC learnt this way and they were fluent by 5, including my youngest who is technically non verbal and has autism. He’s 6 and a “free reader” so no longer part of the phonics scheme. I taught them all with Michael Rosen, Julia Donaldson, Ed Vere and so forth. School reading books are dreadful.

There is no point whatsoever in giving him books to read that he cannot read.