If your child could read when starting reception, did your school make any exceptions for readers?

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I ask as dd is able to read quite well, sight recognises lots of words and uses phonics to sort the rest out. Very able and enjoys it.
School are doing jolly phonics and ORT, she is happy joining in but is finding it a little boring...

is this usual or would you expect the school to do something else
With ds1 they let him read alone in the book corner with the other readers...

endi go to my htread on chat abotu a teacher

tis lwoer down
the shame

One girl in DD's class could read when she started school. Woth regards reading books she was assessed as being a reader in first few days and started higher up the school's scheme, to match with her ability. With regards the class teaching, it was differentiated work. Some would be stuff she may already know - then again lots of the non readers also knew their phonics stuff, etc anyway - but was useful for reinforcement, and also for getting used to working in class without the need for really challenging work.

But DD's school didn't do very much pure phonics/sounds/letters type work. It was covered through other topics instead, not totally discreet. So it wasn't a problem as no one was rote learnng anythign anyway. And much easier to differentiate this way too.

HOW DO YOU LOT ALL know THIS STUFF

Cod - you have to invite other children round for play dates and then listen to them playing "school" - I found out way more about school life and what really goes on that way than asking DD direct. If I ask he she can't remember or did nothing apparently When DD played schools last year there was always one of the students (one of our big dolls) who played the part of E, who was able to read on her own. Noticed this year it has evened out loads with E and some of the others in the class.

When my dds play "school" there is a lot of punitive smacking and sending to stand in the corridor (or dungeon if they really get going). I'm not sure it's a totally accurate representation of their school

LOL Fennel -when DD1 first started playing school, she spent the entire time sending injured classmates to the office, to get better. Their playground is clearly a bloodbath at playtime!

Eek Fennel! I hope not, lol!

DD is a very good impression of her last year teacher

dd2 sometimes got those ORT books with no words in when she could clearly read. We mentioned this to the teacher who suggested that she should write the story. So she did, reams of it, and read it to the class. That's one way of coping with the strange phenomenon of wordless books for reading children.

(I still don't get why they can't just give them books with words in but then I'm not a teacher, they have funny ideas about things)

Only read op

No, they didnt!

Dd1 is eldest in her year, and was mixed in with the wrong set at preschool.
Her friends all went up to school and dd got left behind and had to repaet the year with a different bunch of kids.
She knew how to read when she started reception, and was bored with all the phonics stuff.

I was furious at the time, if she was pushed a little she would of been fine going up with her friends who left her behind.

Having said that, she is fine now, is 7. In top sets but is quite a bright girl really. But its noticably levelled out now.

DD2 (4) is a different kettle of fish. She is not getting the phonics stuff as well and as quickly as dd1. She isnt as bright, im sure.

Am dealing with another crisis today about her being teased for wearing glasses which ahs totally destroyed her confidence today
Have done a thread about it am that upset.
Am finding what lewis said applicable actually, dd was reading sight words happily and now sounds everything out as she thinks that's how she has to do it. But I'm sure it will all work out for her.
Her writing has come on a lot, we did the Write from the Start Teodorescu motor perceptual programme over the last few months and she has really done well, still will have some issues - mostly relating to her lack of depth perception and othe visual acuity problems...

Its awful she is being teased about glasses. I hope that the school sorts it out.

I remember my son getting into trouble because he punched a child who called him spastic because he was wearing hearing aids.

ds "Mummy its wasn't fair, i got a huge telling off from Mrs L. I didn't mean to punch A in the stomach, it was an accident."

me "What you mean it was an accident"

ds "I was aiming for his face and I missed!"

DD is underneath it quite capable of scathing comebacks, she just has never had the need as yet... she is cruel to her big 13 yr old brother though...