Hi there. My ds is a very strong reader and writer, always has been, so now it's come to a point where complacency has set in.
Writing: He has a vivid imagination and a great sense of humour so he's perfectly capable of producing interesting work. However, I feel that perhaps he's lazy about ensuring 'wow' words are included, as well as adjectives and all the bits and pieces he's been learning about that make a piece of writing interesting.
Reading: He can read anything and everything but he can be very lazy about making an effort to follow the plot! This is reflected sometimes in the way he reads questions; quite often his answers are incorrect because he reads the question quickly and doesn't bother stopping to make sure he can fully understand what's being asked of him. He just assumes...
I find that in order to test whether he's following the plot of a book, I need to have read that book myself, and I simply do not have the time to do that. How do you manage to test if your child is following the plot?? How do you encourage them to use good vocabulary without encountering the usual b-o-r-i-n-g.
TIA