No improvement in reading since September

[hennipenni]

How concerned should I be? DD (yr3)does sit and read to me but just "goes through the motions" and certainly doesn't enjoy it. she is having extra one to one with the TA, we read regularly to her ourselves, we try various styles with her but it makes absolutly no difference to her attitude. Her yeacher has only just thiought fit to tell us this at the end of last term...but we had an inkling of this ourselves. She has always been "lazy" with her reading at school right from day one.

She has suffered from glue ear in the past which had a huge impact on her education and the poor thing just seems to be playing catchup all the time. (I did get an apology from her nursery teacher for "failing" her in nursery by not listening to me when I told them several times about her hearing deficit)

So are you concerned about the apparent lack of improvement or the poor attitude?

So, thinking this through a bit more,
Lack of improvement - how are you judging this, what are the criteria? data from standardised national reading tests or teacher / parent observation? Is it her decoding skills or understanding of the text that is weak? Do you know what her reading age is?

Hi wriggle, it's botn really but more so the lack of improvement. Her teacher in years one and two (she stayed witn the same teacher) was really "tuned" into her and we did see some reasonable improvement with lots of help and support, but this year has not seen any improvement at all.

I'm not sure what the criteria are . I think it may be decoding skills as when asked about what she has read she can fully explain what happens in her own words (is this what you mean?).

I asked if she could be moved up to the next reading level as I felt and feel that half of the problem is down to boredom with the material that she is reading. We have used the moving up a stage in other areas of her life as she gets very demotivated and bored easily and quickly but were told she wouldn't move her up a level as she was still at the stage of sounding out words quite a few words that she was unsure about (I thought that this was just her way of learning).

Why don't you do a reading, spelling and nonsense word test with her, plus an alphabet code test -then you could tell if there was a decoding problem:

www.aowm73.dsl.pipex.com/dyslexics/resources_and_further_2.htm

Thanks maverick, I shall do these tests with her after school tonight.

I've got a yr 3 henni.
What sort of reading scheme is she using at school? Is it a phonics based scheme?
ORT?
What level is she on?
and how old is she in the year?

Does the school give the children regular assessments letting them/you know the NC assessment level they have reached?

Is your child happy in school generally, how does she get on in other lessons?

Does your child read other books at home rather than the school reading books?

DS(also Y3) was a slow starter when it came to reading but has improved tremendously over the last year. We sit and read together every night but its books that he enjoys reading and looks forward to seeing what happens next, not the books he brings home from school. We never read those as DS always finds them boring.