Can I ask please what ORT books your Yr2 child is on?

[HelenaBonhamCarter]

Ds is struggling quite a bit and is coming home with Sparrows, which looking at the OUP website (will find link in a mo) is stage 3/4 and meant to be kind of beginning to middle of yr1.

He's just gone into yr2.

He is still finding these books tricky in places though he gets through them in the end.

I just wnated to compare with a few others really so I can see whether this is even on the tail end of normal!!!

but want to press for some extra help maybe or at least patience from the school.

Thankyou.

........I'm trying different books now, because ORT is as dull as a very dull thing that has fallen asleep....

I think it just takes some of them longer, thats all. Work on his confidence and it will come good I am sure.

If only to reassure you my dd now sixteen was a struggling reader and didn't do too well in her SATs in year 2 (1a) was most perturbed not to be in with the clever group (her friends) has just entered sixth form with GCSE's better than all her friends (10As and A*s)
Some children are just late bloomers and tbh I'd encourage a love of books rather than an early ability to read. We read to dd every day until she was 10 year old she may not have read all the children's classics but she listened to them and now she is a complete bookworm reading several every week.

That's brilliant! Thankyou. Ds has always been his own creature - he'll not care for something for ages then sudden;y you'll look round and h's doing it, just like that - and never looks back. So maybe it'll be the same with reading. I just wish they wouldn't push him, because he clearly isn't into it and I know he would suss it out himself and not be made to feel like a 'struggler' in the interim.

They have no grasp of how good he is at other stuff, because it isn't 'school' stuff iyswim.

I think I may look at HE again seriously.

Dd (year 2) is a good reader but is as stubborn as a mule and refused to read anything... until she discovered her older brother's Beanos.

Now she reads them voraciously. Ok, they're not the highest of literature but she is eagerly ploughing her way through four years' worth of them and even sits reading them on the loo. Although she does come out with funny Beano-speak now, such as "I'd like a slap-up meal, please" when she's hungry.

So I second the idea of finding a comic your ds is interested in. I remember ds taught himself to read with Thunderbirds magazines when I couldn't face reading another yawntastic story to him.