Year 2 Guided reading concern

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Hi mums (and dads)
My son is in class 2. He has been a great reader for a long time and is an independent reader at school. He is reading Cool by Micheal Morpurgo at present and loving the whole concept. However since starting year 2 he has been in a different guided reading group to the literacy and phonics group. This is a much lower group with children who are reading Biff and Chip basic books. She raised the concern again today. Should I raise it with the school? Thanks guys xx

*He raised the concern again today!

If his higher order reading skills are pretty good already then doing guided-r with Biff & Chip won't do him any harm. It just might not do him much good, (depending on what type of things he's being asked). If he's asked to infer and is asked about author intent it won't much matter what the books are, he'll still have to use exactly the same set of skills he'd be using with Shakespeare. But if he's asked to read Page 8, then perhaps it's not going to be so useful for him. Maybe you could just clarify what he's being asked to do. On the whole, though, I'd let it pass. If he can already read well it's probably not that big a deal regardless of what he's doing.

I disagree with columngollum- I think that there's very little higher level discussion that you can get out of Biff and Chip. And it's hard to make progress with comprehension skills if you're not being exposed to appropriate books.

If you're concerned I would ask the teacher what aspects of reading he particularly needs to work on.

Yes, I'd just ask (with an open mind), why he is in a different group. Perhaps he struggles with reading dramatically, and needs to work on this. Or with comprehension (maybe...) or...we just don't know. There must be a reason.

do you know though what level the other guided reading groups are reading at? it could be they are all currently working at quite a low level book to ensure all children are confident in the different skills that are required.

mind I don't understand guided reading either and my daughter is doing it at a much lower level than she is reading too so...

It's fine to ask - you can always ask in the context of you want to understand so you can better support him at home (because if he is reading Biff and Chipper in a guided reading context there is something quite basic that the school thinks he can't do that you think he can, and maybe you could work on it etc).

I agree with u x

MrsKCastle x

Also not reading Biff and Chip in reading group but with children who do. OCR 7/8.