Reasing help ks1-fluency? how to improve

[mam29]

dd year 2

got 1b reading last year.

This year readings progressed does seem like its clicked.

Last term felt books were too easy and kept having to say to teacher to reveiw.
We were limited to reading 4pages a night which took week half to read a book had to work through books in sequenece and work way up levels they only had ort/ginn 360 ended term ginn level 5.

The teacher kept going on about how its not just decoding its reading comprehension-we ask her questions after each story so really struggled to work out what issue was.

Anyways she started new school been there a week.
They not so preoccupied with levels like old school was.
theres no limit on how many books they can read.
euther child or parent can pick book ourselves from libary.

feels so weird, they use variety of reading schemes plus online bug club.

I was speaking to teacher she said

shes strong at phonics knows all her sounds
shes can decode
no issues with comprehension.

She needs to improve her fluency?

what does this mean

we read a lot at home as mentioned before old school reading scheme was boring, limited and slow.

it appears shes moving down a guided reading group with average year 2 and some year 1s.

The school seems very focussed on reading and thinking thats a good thing.
teacher just said keep reading with her.

[mrz]

No the different voices aren't essential but they do indicate that this 5 year old boy understands what he is reading and that he finds reading enjoyable ... it also shows that he is reading fluently as he smoothly moves from one to the other appropriately (something some adults find difficult) and this is when reading a book he hasn't previously seen.

[mam29]

Thanks guys some useful advice.

wigglywoo yes moved her to village school which is half size class of 29mixed year 1 /2 done one week going well.

Old teacher led us to belive it was comprehension holding her back.
feelt e hit a road block now i understand what school need for her to progress hopefully we can move foward.

The aim is 2b by end year 2 and hopefully be confident reader who enjoys books.

Unsure what to do in terms of stop start as shes clearly still thinking and decoding some of the text.

will try reading to her more using diffrent voices..

Do like the read with attitude.

Im worried the old school have held her back by being so slow, restrictive and formal.

when teacher told her she choses her books she mwas amazed.

she loves no fiction and we have 2of those in her reading folder.

Think they do songbirds for lower level.

Also logging onto bug club later.

[wigglywoowoo]

Glad that she is settling in ok, the new school does sound much better than the old one! 2b from what you've said sounds an achievable end of year target especially if she is trying hard. I agree that there has been some good advice on here.

mrz I am one of those adults who finds reading fluently aloud while doing different voices difficult No problems until I get to books like current bedtime story - Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator and it is much harder to predict who is going to speak next, which slows me down. I've also never had much need to read aloud but practice is slowly making me perfect.

[mam29]

wigglywoowoo-do hope so , wish year 2 dident have added pressure of sats. shes got 1b so needs to climb up 3sublevels to reach 2b,

Not sure if reading level should match up to nc level as end of term 1 ort level 3 as below a 1b.

Shes on ginn level 5 still that should be roughly equivilant to 1a/2c according to reading chart.If they do match up then hopefully between now and sats she has time to get to where she needs to be,
Do worry I lost 8weeks last term as school were holding her reading back.

last school just used ort and ginn 360 and had levels.

new schools has loads diffrent reading programmes not colour banded just comes out of numbered boxes in libary we been told to work way through box 6 then start on box 7.

Tonight we logged onto pearsons bug club as been given school log on, user name and pasword.

we read 2books 1 non fiction meerkats-quite tricky one. Then jack and beanstalk. dd read through it then we pressed read story and voice reads the story and exagerates the voices ect. it had list of comprehension questions and she got bug points.

So thinking every night as we no longer have pressure of numeracy homework or spellings tests we read one old fashioned book from libary and 1 bug club book then other other weekend go local libary and make commitment to take more books out.

I think i need to read more stories with her as thourght letting her doing the reading was good thing.

for xmas will get few new books and considering some story cds too.

I read goldilocks with 3year old tonight and realised i do natually raise/lower my voice and use diffrent voices to differentiate characters think some short simple storys lend themselves to that approach whilst others do not.

I also think the old school had obession with just moving up the levels and streaming-they dident instill a love of learning and were very controlling,

Some of the parents but mostly the kids in dds old class were very competative and used to know what each other was on and dd would come home crying saying she she was bottom table and never going to catch up.

[simpson]

It sounds like she is on the right path and tbh I think it's important to nurture a love of reading in her and then she will want to read iyswim.

3 sub levels in one academic year is more than do-able....