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This was in my sons communication book

Read blah blah book with blah blah teacher .

Jolly good but what is it supposed to communicate to me ? My ds is in yr four , he is level six for reading , I don't understand why the teacher has told me she has read a book with him . No other notes ,

Happy to be told there will be no good reason by the way It's just in the past these books have only been used for info I need to act on .

Why not meet up with the teacher or TA who will be writing in the book and agree yourselves a system - and if needed a sort of shorthand? We do this and it works. What we need to communicate, how, and when we need a phonecall instead/as well
Sounds like someone's not clear about what the book is for.

That someone May well be me to be fair , it just confused me , I normaly sign to say I have read it or make a comment but I am buggered if I know what to put .

He reads well , he reads a lot at home and at school , just seemed a weird thing to tell me . Unless they are telling the ta and not me .

When I first read it , it sounded like a request for him to read it to the teacher and not that he had already read it iyswim .

It's the little things that take up the most headspace sometimes .

It's usually trying to read between the lines IMHO (in my case)
I just think it's a basic difference in understanding, and some straightforward discussion about what you all want will sort it. I wasn't implying that anyone was "wrong" and there does need to be a good amount of honesty and tbh trust on both sides that everyone's pulling the same way to help your boy. Maybe whoever wrote it has enjoyed reading with him - it's a real buzz hearing a good reader when you work in sen.

(not necessarily sen I mean education as a whole)

I will try and speak to her tomorrow after school , just threw me because there was no mention of good , bad or indifferent , just bare facts . Bit like saying today we did maths , the end .

Thank you by the way .

DC's primary school did this too - I always assumed it was just for my information, so that I knew that they did occasionally read to their teacher on a 1-1 basis.

You are probably right , just never happened before .

Agree, it's just so you don't complain that 'my child hasn't read with an adult for 6 months'. A frequent whinge on here.

Thank you Belgian , my other ds is gifted in maths but tbh I didn't really think of him being gifted in reading . I just thought it was something he could now do well and enjoyed .

I think I will def speak to his teacher about it .but to me once you can read you can read , I hadn't thought about it on a gifted level ?

Lee thank you too , just never occurred to me I suppose because he is good at it so I have relaxed .

Now if she had written that he had sat quietly all day I would have understood !

I wouldn't have thought this was an NC level. Possibly a level to do with the reading scheme?

sorry I have made that up it is a level 4b I have just checked his report , I remembered it being what he would be expected to reach in yr 6 and my mind has mixed it up , Ooops !

At least I checked and didn't go and ask the teacher why he wasn't being fast tracked to oxbridge x

4b in Yr4 is really really good though! Still demands some serious skills so well done your DS.

I agree that a slightly less concise communication from the teacher would have been helpful.

Thank you pointy , thankfully it is my children being assessed and not me .

Meh, between book bands and NC levels anyone can get confused .

Thanks for the tea but wine might be better , can't do emoticon stuff on stupid phone .

There you go, yoghurt. Do you agree we need a chocolate emoticon?

What books is your DS reading at school and at home? My DD2 (now in Yr5) started Yr4 on a 4B, had a teacher who totally 'got' her and although she had to do scheme books (ORT band 15/16) she also made sure that she provided books that kept DD engaged and even lent some of her own. DD ended the year on NC 5a. It sounds like your son has that kind of potential too, so it's worth getting the teacher on side - a teacher worth their salt will be more than happy to 1) have a child like your DS in class and 2) to make sure he's challenged.

I write in the children's reading records just to show I've listened to them. We do extensive guided reading sessions, I listen to readers, we do extensive APP and we do numerous comprehension tasks. I just don't have the time to write in every child's reading journal. By level 3, fluency and decoding are not so important, so I don't write comments about them. If the child is able to understand the social, cultural or historical setting etc then I highlight it to myself, but wouldn't necessarily write 'little Tabatha understood the cultural context of this story' etc.

Yes to a choc emotican pointy , once this stupid diet is over .

Juniper thank you that does make sense I was just surprised because even in reception this statement communication just didn't happen .

It won't keep me up at night was just a surprise and confusing as politeness dictates to me I should reply but other than just signing it I am at a loss .

We write in reading records just so the parents know they have read with an adult. We also put down if a child has gone up a reading level.

Some parents write back, in others the children write what they have read with a small comment. (In the year 5's I work with, not the year 1's)