does your reception child know all 45 set words yet?

[emandjules]

and can read, write and spell them. Just being naughty and comparing to see how dd is doing. She was barely talking a year ago, so just wondering how she compares to her peers.

Guided reading is with the teacher and a small group of same-level pupils. There are 5 in dd's group. It's different to when they read their books 1-1 with the teacher as the teacher runs through reading specific information with them such as, I guess, reinforcing what they've been doing in phonics during carpet time, looking for rhyming words, words with the same digraph / phoneme, sometimes reading a page each, sometimes reading as a whole group. So it's more teaching than reading.

Dd reads with her teacher 1-1 once a week, with a parent helper once a week and she does some small group reading / writing with 2 other children at her level 3 times a week. I'm not unhappy with all that, just unsure as to how the reading teaching fits with the books they bring home to read.

My dd is 5.8, we live in Canada so she's only in half day Kindergarten till September. They have not done any reading at school yet (to start sending books home next week). But she wanted to read and so I bought some levelled readers and she reads to me fairly regularly (not every day) when she feels like it. She is now reading ORT level 7 with no difficulty.

My point is that at that age it doesn't really matter what they do at school, they'll read when they are ready.

Will avow no knowledge of this topic otherwise dh will start braintraining with ds tomorrow.

Not being the most receptive thinking school to 'new' ideas (e.g. synthetic phonics), I have no doubt ds' primary school are wedded to this list.