opinions please, DS is in year 1 and is on the GINN reading programme - my sister who works as a classroom assistant tells me that his school isn't pushing his reading as her DD is on another series and her school gave up GINN a few years ago.
He seems to like the books and is reading them, although he has difficulty with words not spelt phonetically.
he has come home with words to learn to spell this term, although he's not going to be tested on them - examples are: because, another, pen, ben etc etc - my sister says that some of these are too hard for his age
he's my eldest and I've no experience of teaching someone to read so would appreciate your views