I know I witter on endlessly about dd1's reading but still, sorry, here I go again. Its parent's evening next week and dh and I agree we need to go in there with a plan.
Basically dd1 is NOT a strong reader. She did make it through treetops (ort) 11 and 12 but with some difficulty. After level 12 they can choose their own books from the library which are sorted 'appropriately'. Dd1's books have an orange sticker. There is one very short shelf of these - I cannot impress upon you enough the utter crapness of the books - 'Stories for 4 year olds' (mmm not many year 3's wanting to take that one), 'The Gargoyle' ok quite good story but MUCH too hard for dd1 'Little People Big People' by Malachy Doyle with lots of Irish names and slang which just utterly confuses a weak reader (and its a crap book anyway). There are a couple of Usborne (yay!) and a few Ginn 360 (v good for dd1, simple nature stories). dd1 is expected to choose her own, except she doesn't, I go in there with her and choose them for her.
The terrible books mean that our daily reading has become a terrible battle - she hates doing it and I get irritable . She guesses words, ignores fulls tops and commmas, has NO CLUE what she has just read etc etc.
There are so many good books out there for readers like her -the book people do some fantastic sets - she read and enjoyed the Sprinters series and reads the Usborne abridged classics very nicely and with interest.
I am thinking that I might suggest supplying dd1 with her own books and asking if that would be acceptable. The odd thing is that they have boxes of books in the classroom that are much better in content and style - they can borrow these but they don't 'count' towards their reading record.
Tbh, she should still be on some sort of reading scheme, but this would be very hard to implement now as she thinks she is a 'free reader'.
Need a plan that will help dd1 without utterly alienating her teacher.