Slow-reader, or not?

[DeBeauvoir]

Worried about the ds's pace of learning. She turns six next week, and has only just started stage 3 of biff and chip books.
Also - can only do adding up between one and ten, and has not started subtraction at all.
Anyone else with a six yr old like this? My son was reading fluently at four, so have been thrown off course a bit.

If she's about to turn 6 she is Y1?

Plenty of children at that sort of level in DD's year. Reading bands range from Stage 1 - chapter books. Most are probably clustered around Stage 4.

In terms of the subtraction, IME addition is taught first and then the children shown how the subtraction fact relates to the addition fact. I know my DD (who is meant to be more able at maths) finds subtraction very tricky and is getting very confused at hte moment!

I am a Y1 parent. I would say that in a good school, most Y1 children would be a little bit further on than level 3 at this stage in Y1. Not a vast amount further on, just a bit, if she was on 4, then I would say don't worry. If you are sure that she knows her sounds very well and all the sight words that they are asked to learn, then it may just be a question of practising. Personally, I would sign up to Reading Chest (www.readingchest.co.uk/16/book-bands) and get a bit of practice in and see how she gets on. IME you won't necessarily see results immediately. My DS (Y1) has done reading chest for around 8 months because I was worried about him. We started on level 2 and he is now on level 7 (at school, not determined by me). He is also just turning 6.

I think level 3 is ok but the maths sounds worrying. Ds2 is in y1 and has learned loads this year-addition, subtraction, counting in 2s and 5s, half past... He's considered above average but not top of the class or anything.

He definitely learned subtraction in Reception starting with questions like what's 1 less than 3. At school he has objects available to him to help with maths as well as a 100 square. Maybe your daughter needs physical counters or similar to help?

Thanks. We are based in the USA at the moment, and math learning seems incredibly slow, though teacher insists it is all age appropriate. Finding education States-wide v. v. frustrating all round, and they are at an international school (hence Floppy & Chip)!
Thanks for Reading Chest link, Pink Trees. We will use it. And sounds as though will have to teach subtraction myself, to keep up with UK peers.

We live in an area with lots of American children coming into the UK school system, and most of them do tend to be behind their UK peers in numeracy and literacy. They do catch up quickly, though. If you are staying in the US then doing a bit at home is definitely a good idea, as long as you keep it fun.