My DC's school has been doing ERP to teach the dc phonics for at least the last 7 years (have had various dc there for 7 years). Which had an abysmal record for teaching the children to read. Today it was DS2's 'meet the teacher' thingy, and the school said that ERP wasn't accredited by the government, so they weren't allowed to use it any more, so they are changing to 'Read, Write Inc'.
DS2 is in Y3. They said that anyone NOT at level 2b/2a (which they say is over 60% of the year group of 87) will be doing this 'Read, Write Inc' program.
For starters, why have they been allowed to use a phonics system that hasn't been accredited by the Government for 7 years? Especially when they have a high level of dc leaving in Y6 being unable to fluently read. And also, how good is this programme? I understand ERP, have been to numerous meetings about it etc. over the years, but this 'Read, Write Inc' is a new one on me, can anyone explain it to me.
And also explain to me how I can help DS2 (who is at a tenuous lvl 2c for reading, and a lvl 1c for writing at the end of Y2 in July) get the most out of this programme. His writing is abysmal mostly due to the fact that he has two different muscle problems (Hypotonia and Hypermobility Syndrome - he also has Dyspraxia)- how will this 'Read, Write Inc' help him?
I was going to book an appointment with the school SenCo to ask them to do 'write from the start' with him, DD had to do that, and it helped her massively, but if this 'Read, Write Inc' thingy will help him, then I'm all for that - but what is the difference, and how does it work?
TIA.