Help! Reading for Y3/Y4

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Please could anyone help me out by suggesting reading programmes?

I'm living abroad and homeschooling my 4 DC and need some help for DD1. She's graduated out of Superphonics and Biff & Chip books, and now I don't know what to do next! I'm not a trained teacher, of course, and don't know what she 'should' be learning at this point, so I could really use a programme that will guide us through.

It's easy enough to find books for her to read. But she'll need help with her writing, comprehension, spelling, grammar. She'll be returning to UK schools in Y5.

I've seen Read Write Inc has a follow-on programme beyond basic phonics, any experience of it out there? Or other suggestions?

Thank you!

RWI is good we've had excellent results with it in our school. Spelling - google high frequency words that will give you lists of words I think they're on the National Literacy Strategy site from what I remember. Collins and Scholastic have some good comprehension books. With reading I just encourage the children in class to read something that interests them so they learn to read for pleasure and that it's not boring! Oxford reading tree is a good reading scheme aswell.

Oh yes I forgot Curriculum Visions Spelling is another scheme that has produced good results with us!

Thanks! Have you used RWI Comprehension?

At this age, my dd1 was free reading guided by the teachers. Pippi Longstocking, Heidi, anything by Michael Morpurgo, Enid Blyton are all great to get children into reading on their own

Good author recommendations, Elsjas, thanks.

But I'm not really worried about reading material, per se. There's no shortage of great reading material around! It's more everything else that goes with it: learning to write, to comprehend material on different levels, spelling, grammar, answering questions about what you've read, etc.

I have no idea what happens in school on these points, thus my interest in a programme that can guide me.

Have you considered buying workbooks? Amazon has a good selection of english/maths workbooks which follow the national curriculum. Year 3/4 is already key stage 2 (KS2) and the books cover the curriculum with suitable exercises/tests. Personally we love the Letts Success books and the Bond series.

That's a really good idea. I'll have a look!

DD loves the 'Enchanted English' workbooks from Letts. She is a bit younger than your DD - but the books do go right up through KS2.

If I remember rightly, if you look on the Letts website, you can take a look at most of the books' pages before you buy.

Good stuff. Off to the Letts website for a look.