Primary - what tools /resources will help me teach my severely strugglying dd in Year 3?

[lisalisa]

I think I need to take matters in my own hands a bit with my dd2. She is nearly 8 and In Year 3 and struggling with almost all areas of the academic curriculum. Her understanding of both math and english seem literally zero and most of the basic concepts seem to have passed her by. She has been assessed as needing an IEP whch she now has but she really hasn[t made any signigicant progess at all since it started. I would like to go back to basics with her especially in maths and start with basic addition skills and times tables and the concept of division and simple problems - i.e. Jack has 3 apples and wnats to share them between his 3 sisters equally. How many shoudl each get? I also want to go back to basics with comprehensiion and getting her to understand a simple story and answ3er questions onit as well as to draft her own stories and at least puntuate them very basically.

I seem to remember on mumsnet talk of some self help books which mirror the nat curriculum requirements for that year group. What are they pleae and has anyone done this with their chld and if so with wbhat success?

I'm not planning to abandon what they're teaching her inclass - its just that nothing sinks in or is undersatnd so i want to go back to year 1 and start with those concepts afresh and in our own time.

what do you all think?

lisa you say an able reader. I suspect that she is adept at phonics/memory based blending. What has been ignored by the school is testing or checking her comprehension at early levels. The fact that she can read the words is not enough.
Going back to a simpler level (bob books are excellent) and to through it bit by bit, asking questions and suggesting answers for her to choose from so you can check her understanding.
As for numbers is she ok with quantities. Sounds like she knows larger and smaller. Can she work on halves/quarters/thirds ? Equal groups
Four apples
Four oranges
Adding them by keeping counting?
She may be able to to this already but redoing basics might give her confidence.

Are you questioning the teacher about this? It seems to me that she has some explaining to do if your dd is in year 3 and they are only finding this stuff out now!

re counting in 10s and 5s, could you borrow some 'base 10' equipment from the school?(theses are old fashioned little cubes in rods of 10, blocks of 100 and single units. great for understanding counting on in tens and place value...they can SEE that 10 tens is the same as 100, for example)

also, drawing simple number lines in multiples of 10 or 5 from 0 to 100. practice counting on and back in 5s or tens. get her to notice that multiples of 10 end in zero etc . ask what is 10 more than a number on the numberline line. 20 more? 10 less? answer by referring to the number line,and drawing in the 'jumps' as you count along the line. then try it mentally without the line.

also, practice taking a 2 digit number :
add 1 to this number
subtract 1 from it
make it 10 higher
10 lower
100 higher etc etc
Can she add 10 to a number without counting on her fingers? has she noticed that if you add 10 to 23, that the '3' doesnt change? in my exp, children will fall quickly behind, if they havent noticed these patterns/ short cuts for basic mental calcualtion.

reading fluencay and comprehension are v different skills, as you know. am surprised the school havent picked up on this.

good luck!

ps relate this to her knowledge of number bonds to ten/ addition facts to 10. tell her ...explain that if you know that 3+7 is 10, you also know that 30+70=100. also... ask her do you know what 4+4 is? Can you predict then what 40 +40 is? once she sees the pattern, her mental calculation skills should improve.