I've come to realise that I am reading with DS all wrong. I'm such a tit.
He is just 5yo and in reception.
He gets a book changed every day or every other day. Usually gets changed at the end of the day so I am the first person to read it with him at home.
I have been reading it through myself to him first as he just looks at it blankly to start with. Then he reads it all the way through back to me.
I've realised today that I must be doing it totally wrong when DS had a friend over for tea and he read his book by himself first by sounding all the words out (he wanted to read a book btw, I wasnt making them do homewlrk on a play date!!)
My DS has Aspergers and for things like this he has a photographic memory. Once I have read it to him once he has memorised the whole book. When he goes into school the next day and the teacher reads with him, he reels off the whole book and I think that they think he can actualy READ it rather than that he's remembered it! Which seems as though is about right from seeing DS's friend be able to read it himself.
Tonight I tested him and didnt read the book first. DS managed to pick out the words 'a' and 'my' and nothing else, then got really cross and squealed at me before throwing the book!
He gets enormously frustrated at things he cant do and hates practising (except with numbers, he is a maths whizz).
I'm not sure what I should be doing with him to help him.
Am so embarassed that I seem to have given his teachers the impression that he's learnt to read already when really he has got hardly anywhere...
Even learning his sounds, he has memorised the order they apppear in his sounds list so finds it hard to sound out words as cant recall the sounds when they are not in the right order!
How do I read with him?? I think I will have to have a chat with his teacher and see what she says?
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How do you read with your reception age child? I have been doing it all wrong!!
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fel1x · 23/11/2010 19:40
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