Bit worried ds reading.

[Moonfacesmother]

Ds is in reception, he was reading dandelion readers and was on unit 17 which is apparently yellow band equivalent. He was doing well and has a lot of high frequency words and could sound out the unfamiliar words as the dandelion readers are entirely phonetic.

However apparently his school only have them to to unit 17 and now he's finished all the ones they have they have given him a red band reader and he can't read it! He can read the high frequency words but when he comes to words he can't sound out he's lost and he's getting frustrated because he could sound out the words in the other books. The book we have had this week has words like "tastes" "whoosh" "house" "dance"
I know you can in theory sound these out but ds doesn't seem to have covered split vowel digraphs at all so he struggles whenever he comes to one.

Any advice or is it basically like starting again?!

I think bauhaus' point is that since she doesn't know the phonological code which would allow her to decode word with uncommon phonic roots it, ergo, must be impossible.

I do quite often, in fact. But I always allow the buns a couple of free strikes, rude not to.

Collum, that made me laugh

How did you get all that from one non-poem?

I used it as an inferential text...

Isn't it a tad early for postmodernism?

G & T, obviously

I don't think bauhausfan's posting a meme has anything to do with buns more of a red herring

Is that the one one opens (in which case I think I'll join her) or is she just clever?

but MN is much cheaper Euphemia

Euphemia!

No, euphemia, mn isn't like that at all. When we argue here there's a perfectly valid reason for it. Those people were just being silly.

I disagree; I think it's neither an argument nor a contradiction.

No, cg. She said that the collection of sentences showed that she had a valid point. Some of us are agog to know what the point was as her original 'point' was about some words being 'phonetically irregular' but the words in the sentences were fine...

Do you not teach heteronyms in secondary maizieD?

Maybe she's one of the ones who requires a long introduction. I'm sure the argument will be worth waiting for.

It sounds to me as though he needs some intensive phonics practice. Ask his teacher what you can do to help support his phonics learning at home. You could also create a bank of tricky words for him to learn by sight and increase his confidence/speed which will also then help him get the sense of a whole sentence. First port of call: teacher.

He can read but the school is providing books beyond his current level of knowledge - it's like expecting him to complete questions involving numbers to a million when he's only mastered 0-9

I really think you need to ask the teacher if you can have a chat about your concerns. There must be reading material in school that is appropriate to his reading ability. If not, you should take it to the HT.

I don't think she's capable without the personal attacks, but we'll see.

? \posted on the wrong thread Feenie?

Think Feenie was responding to maizieD, and referring to bauhaus

Thanks, Oakmaiden - see, G&T!

Well, well, well, maybe there is something more to this reading malarky after all.