Go on honestly what reading stage is your reception child on

[schmoopoo]

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dd1 read a word that was in italics the other day and really stressed and emphasised it

I was very impressed

OO, how typical that your dd is like mine on the 'saying she's rubbish' front! My dd constantly thinks she's no good at anything and gets very upset about it.

I know, she is a perfectionist!

her teacher says she will answer if she knows the answer but will hang back if unsure

I don't think she enjoys school tbh, doesn't have any friends as yet

how is your dd getting on? (am leaving for home soon but will be on later if I don't reply straight away)

As always ... SNAP on all accounts! Dd really doesn't get school and rarely puts her hand up. She's such a perfectionist that it breaks my heart sometimes. She can do an amazing drawing and say it's rubbish because of some minor imperfection. I think she often doesn't try new things for fear of failing. We were out with friends at the weekend and she got hysterical that she couldn't climb on a climbing frame with the ease that another girl could. Honestly you'd have thought that the world was ending!

ORT 4

my goodness, they are like two peas in a pod

we need to move next door to each other and then they can have a friend then [sob]

I'm not really sure about ORT levels because at ds's school they change to other books after their second year in school. ds is 5 (6 in August) and he can read without sounding out but reads slowly. At the moment he is reading Fantastic Mr Fox and needs help on maybe a word on each page. He is not an avid reader though and would have a tolerance for about 3 pages a night before he wants to stop and be read to. What level would he be at?

My ds's school does not use ORT levels I think, and if they do I haven't noticed at all. My ds is the top reader in reception, and is on level 14, which is a bit . I don't know what that means, and I don't think that it is level 14 ORT since they appear to be using a different scheme. He has been picked out as "gifted", but that just means a bit bright, imo. My eldest, now 19, could reat befre nursery and was not called "gifted", just difficult to 'control'. Now with my 5 year old, they have run out of books, and are having to order more in
It is all a bit bizarre, and I don't understand anything at all about what happens in that school.
I know that he enjoys reading, particularly poetry, books about the solar system, and trees.

DD1's books bear no relation to the others mentioned here-apart from the tedious Biff,Kipper & Chip.Her books seem to come from lots of different series,including Sunshine spirals & Cambridge Uni Press.

She is on red books and one of them says level3,the other 'beginning to read,level c',so have no idea how that compares.She is the youngest in the class & won't be 5 until 29th August,but reads confidently.Her teacher says that dd's reading blows her away,so she must be doing alright.