at what age did reading "click" with your ds/dd?

[dinny]

dd is 5 and 9 months and in year one, and still feel she has yet to really click with reading. she is still on ORT stage 3 and can read them, but quite hesitantly (ie. sounds out a lot of the words before saying them).

I have always read heaps of lovely books daily to her and ds - throughout day, bedtime, etc and she loves loves being read to but still doesn't seem to have quite made the leap forward, just worry she will be left behind as her class is very able, a lot of them have finished ORT and are on chapter books.

what can I do to help more than I am? which is reading her the books and stories she enjoys and loves, reading ORT and other age-appropriate books with her and listenig to her read daily, and encouraging her to notice and read signs/newspapers/menus etc...?

sorry, rambling! she is really good at spelling btw, usually gets 5/5 each time...

my ds is only just beginning to click with reading and he is in yr2 and is 7yo

HTH

In the summer holidays between reception and year 1, so 5.2-ish. But his spelling is terrible, and he is now in year 2. I am now starting to get worried about that.

just so frustrating to see a lot of kids - some of whom I know have not been read to until starting ORT -flying ahead and dd struggling...

My DD seemed to struggle compared to the others in her class until year 2, then she flew along and it clicked with her.

However, beware of comparing your DD to others because I mentioned to another mum that her Dd was on a more advanced level of reading than my DD and she said "well, we only do it quickly before breakfast on the day it's due back. To be honest I read them to her!"

My DS2 has also only just clicked in Yr2 two months short of his 7th birthday.

thanks for the posts - I just want her to love reading as much as I do - it's been such a wonderful part of my life. just don't want her to be put off it before she's started!

did you see my post to you on the other thread dinny?

ooh no, Twiglett, which was it?

God, this motherhood lark is a roller-coaster!

I think that part of the problem is that ORT does not fit in with using phonics to teach reading. I think if you got her some phonics readers like www.jellyandbean.com her confidence would improve.

If she is blending then she has more or less clicked with reading. Its a fanastic step and fluency will come later. She needs to build her confidence and praised. Prehaps you might teach her to blend the sounds in her head.

Also there is more to reading than blending and segmenting words. I am sure that all those books you have read to your daughter have improved her comprehension

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"By Twiglett on Fri 15-Feb-08 10:15:08
Dinny .. we had an issue in Year 1 that DS had been forgotten and didn't have a reading record .. I only noticed 6 weeks in and went storming into school for an explanation (which was oops don't know how that happened) .. he knew his phonics and could blend but couldn't 'read'

3 weeks later (so October of year 1) it clicked and he could suddenly read (not fluently) but a good stab .. since when it has gone up and then plateaued and then gone up and plateaued again ... he is now year 2 (just turned 7 this week) ... and about 3 weeks ago started reading his first chapter book pleasure .. a 'can't put it down mummy, one more chapter' chapter book (I was thrilled)

I always held on to the fact that by the age of 8 or 9 ALL children equalise on reading .. it is just a trick when it 'clicks into place'

HTH

ah, thanks, Twiglett!

RT - thanks for the link, will order some in for her. she is really good at blending

in fact, she's just been reading an Usborne anatomy book more fluently than she reads ORT. she says ORT are too "easy and boring"

may I recommend 'Red Nose Readers' .. see thebookpeople.co.uk .. set of 16 funny readers by Jez Ahlberg .. excellent

and not worrying

she has a love of reading already .. doing it herself is a trick she'll get

is he Duck In The Truck author? rings a bell....

sorry my mistake .. Allen Ahlberg (not Jez .. got confused)

here

great, thanks so much for the link, have just placed an order for that set and a few other lovely books! many thanks!

My DS only clicked aged 7 when he did paired reading at school. Now year 3 there is no stopping him. Ask your teachers about paired reading. In the end I think it was more about confidence. Within 6 months his reading age has gone from 7 to 9 and a half and he is not yet 8.

Ds clicked when he was Yr 2 aged 7. DD didn't click she just absorbed reading.

ds1 clicked just after his 6th birthday and went from 0-60 in reading terms in a matter of weeks (i.e. from yellow reading books - v simple sentences - to free reader)

ds2 clicked a bit later and not quite so spectacularly fast - he started enjoying reading in the summer term of Y1, and by the summer term of Y2 he was a voracious free reader, who devours books at an astonishing rate

dd's 5.3 and in reception and has a very good memory, so sounds like she's reading red books fluently, but really she's just memorised them!

don't worry about your daughter's level compared with her peers - both my boys were way behind some of the others half way through Y1 but they soon outstripped them and now both have a reading age far ahead of their chronological age

Reading clicked for my dd1 at the back end of Y2 (so around 7.5yr)

She hates reading though

I think its much much more important to foster a love of books rather than the skill of reading itself ...sadly my dd has no love ...yet ...

My dd2 is 4, almost 5, and already sees a real purpose in reading. I wouldn't say it has clicked exactly, but she loves to read and will have a go at reading anything and everything ...and she's not far off either!

Ds1 has just recently clicked, he turned 6 three weeks ago.

dd started reading to herself for pleasure this year, so round about sixish I guess. But she's always enjoyed her school books (dreadful though they are) I suspect that's just part of her desire to do whatever the teacher tells her to do. ds has also recently started to read to himself for pleasure (I have been finding books in his bed - hurrah!!). He is almost nine and until the end of this summer hated reading. Then we found out he was dyslexic and took him for some phoics tutoring and it really did click with him that there wwere rules he could understand, and he hasn't really looked back. If you read to them lots they will have really good spoken vocabularies, and that is very important - my two speak really well and it seems to translate in many people's minds into "clever" which is no bad thing, I think.

thanks, all! my 3 year old ds loves reading and will read dd's ORT and other simple texts out loud already. he just seems to get it!

dd hates being told anything - she gets so annoyed if she can't do something right the first time.

Ds was over 6.5 when he finally "clicked". And this was depsite over 6 weeks of intensive 1:1 tution from the school. To give the school its due, they did tell us not to worry - amy kids, espcially boys, just don't click until they are 6.

He 's now 7.5 and it is only in the last few months that he has taken to reading independendtly. Mostly stuff about football and Captain Underpants books. Still slures over difficult words but he is now trying.

On the other hand, he has always loved numbers!

er 9 when he finally started reading a book

he is also good at maths though

The actual mechanics of reading clicked with ds when he was about 7.5. GETTING him to read anything independenty apart from teh Argos and Lego catalogues is more difficult. Even tried bribing him if he would read a book. I can't understand this as I love reading.