not sure about this!!!

[cherrymonster]

dd1 has recently been assessed by the ed psych as she has been having major problems settling in to school. she started reception last september, and has now gone into year 1. her assessment has put her at a level 8 for reading, writing and numeracy, which i am told is the level she should be achieving at the end of year 3. apparently at the end of foundation stage (nursery to reception class) she should be achieving level 2 in these subjects. is she G&T or is she just a clever girl? (she is very close to academically overtaking her 9 year old brother who has HFA and dyspraxia, but i need to know if her problems with school stem from her being too bright iyswim)

But pixie, they wouldn't actually need to be proper free readers - I'm sure there can't be many kids who work through all the reading scheme books before attempting to read other things!! So if there are plenty of non-reading scheme books in the classroom, there should be plenty of opportunities for free choice, shouldn't there?

I thought the whole point was that it wasn't what they read to the teacher, but what they choose to read for themselves (in the classroom). But then, how the teacher assesses fluency and accuracy - especially in kids who read silently to themselves - I really don't know. Perhaps one of the teachers on here can illuminate!

I guess the teacher will know the child is fluent and accurate from the oral reading that's been done individually, and will therefore assume when said child works their way through the whole of the book corner quietly that they're reading them in the same way. I'm assuming Pixie meant 'free reading' in the sense of 'able to read pretty much anything they pick up that they're interested in'.