We had ds's parent evening and I told his teacher I was concerned about his reading and writing. She said his reading was slightly below that for his age - He's 5, summer born and reading ginn level 2 but that in a recent assessment he was showing as a 1c which is the expected level at this stage. She agreed his writing is below the expected level but that we should not be concerned at this stage. He has only really just starting to attempt any writing but he has been able to write his name since last year back in reception (It's an easy one!!). She said he knows 30 of the 44 phonics sounds and about 20 hfw. Is this ok at this stage? I was quite sad looking through his workbooks as there seems to be very little in them but again she didn't think this was something to worry about. I think part of my problem is his sister is in y2 and at the other end of the scale and I cant help but compare to what she was doing this time last year. I didn't mention this to the Teacher as I know the golden rule is never to compare children but I can't help myself.
Do we just sit back and chill and let things hopefully progress? How long should we wait? His behaviour is acceptable but not brilliant (Teacher's words!) and he does have impulsive tendencies at times where he knows he shouldn't be talking or being silly but does it anyway. She said he responds well to praise and he does have some self esteem issues. Often saying he can't do something before he even tries. He is happy doing his homework - he gets 10 spellings and will write out the words but I cannot see how he could write them out again say 5 days later without any help. Again she didn't bring this up as a problem. I was slightly reassured after meeing the teacher but still have nagging doubts. She gave some good ideas for low key help at home where he's not aware he's even learning and I've read lots of interesting stuff on here but any more advice would be greatly appreciated.
Sorry for waffling on 