Look and Say - do any guidelines exist to help us monitor how dcs are progressing?

[anabellapity]

I do not really want to start a thread about Look & Say vs. other methods (am all agrued out on MN)- i just want to discuss with others who are applying/have knowledge of Look and Say. we do break down new words phonetically so i do borrow from other methods too, but i was just wondering whether there is any way of putting my finger on how well he is doing.

btw the only reason i am using this method is my own personal success with it (reading at 2) but mainly because ds has something akin to a photographic memory like i have never seen in a child so this method is well suited to him pêrsonally. he is almost 4.5 and on the verge of free-reading (although i try and keep him away from Harry Potter - he is absolutely desperate to start those and i just know that it is way too early!)

sorry for any incoherence - sunday morning and all that!!!

I don't understand your question - you say he is on the verge of being a free reader - surely that means you already know how well he is progressing. Are you wanting him to do a reading test of sorts?

Does this list address your needs?

Reading Skills

the list is useful, thanks - i thought over my post later on and i realised that it was a bit ambiguous on that point - i suppose i meant to say that he appears gto free-read within the age-appropriate range of books available but would not pick up a newspaper and have a go

i suppose that per the list he is somewhere within established which comes as a surprise to me as i would have thought he would be at a lower level than this