Peter and Jane books - How did you find them?

[MonsterCar]

Just wondering if you found these books very beneficial?

Also, what would level would an average child who has just turned 6 be able to get to?

DS struggled with starting to learn to read so I'm trying to help him as much as I can so he keeps pace with the class.

He started school at age 5 (we are not in the uk).

DS started on book 1a about 4 weeks ago and will be moving on to 4a soon.

They are obviously very good for the common sight words - but do you think it's ok to stick with these books for now or should I be mixing it up with phonic based books.

I'm inclined to stick to these books as it's kind of amazing to see the progress

[user789653241]

I think it's kind of trick, mrz. It's quite easy to see the difference between child who has figured out the code and child who is just memorising words. Child who figured out code could read anything in front of them, while child memorising get stuck with new words. But the thing is, the child with good decoding skill doesn't necessarily mean good reader with good comprehension. Thus, I think it's kind of a trick.

[MyYummyMammy]

First day on mumsnet - easy to rub people up the wrong way.

Let me explain. Where I come from, the phrase “good trick!” is commonly used to mean something like “nicely done!” or a generally friendly non-judgmental “good job accomplishing that cool thing you just did” or generally a thumbs up of approval.

I wasn’t referring to it in a pejorative sense, with the sense of diminishing the achievement, or relegating it to a bar stool party-trick, or trying to make any serious cognitive psychology point about how precisely to rank the achievement of discerning how to read, in various ways such as whole word recognition versus other ways like phonics or gradually working it out yourself, or suggesting that all children should be left to learn or even could learn this “trick”, or assuming that it’s a good idea.