Year 1 DS came home today with his first reading book of the year.
The school uses the Big Cat Little Wandle scheme.
At the end of reception he was on Red band 2A sometimes 2B.
I know this is still behind where he should have ideally been.
Over summer we have continued to practice phase 3 and 4 sounds and words.
We’ve read everyday and read songbird phonics and Oxford reading tree at band Yellow from ‘this bear can read’ box. We do flashcards and fluency pyramids and he has been doing well and making progress.
At the start of year 1 I thought they’d start on the same band as at the end of reception. But today he’s come home with Phase 2 pink band. This is lset 1 just SATPIN sounds with one word per page.
He’s been reading full sentences for ages.
He was on this band a year ago, more or less. October half term!
I am hoping that they don’t actually think he is basically a year behind and it’s a mistake.
I plan to politely enquire via a note in the reading record. But before I set myself up as ‘that’ parent, does this sound right or a mistake?
The reason I feel it may be a mistake also is because it is a very dark pink perhaps was mistaken for red?
So as not to drip feed - we have strong suspicions of ADHD and concentration is a big issue and he guesses words based on the pictures even though he is capable of reading them.
What would you do in such scenario?
I also feel like we can’t do anymore to support him at home we do a lot already, read every day without fail. He reads to us then we read a story of his choice to him. We filled 3 reading records last year and he got a prize for hitting the top threshold of more than 200 reads at home early in summer term.
I don’t want to burn him out and overdo it particularly when he is so tired after school right now.
I worry I clearly have more belief in his abilities than the school and they’ve written him off! But this is maybe my mum anxiety going into hyperdrive.