Has your reception-age child had reading books sent home? Esp. if on ReadWriteInc?

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I had the impression DS was doing okay at learning sounds/reading basics, but no reading books yet. I'm too chicken to ask other parents if their precious darlings have had books, and whether my DS is the only dunce. We were told reading books would be sent home after Christmas, but that's weeks ago now.

DS's SEN is mostly speech related, but I'm afraid he's slower than I thought? I'm trying so hard to be patient, not worry about it, and of course not 'compare' (YEAH RIGHT).

Ho hum, anyone up to comparing, especially if your child's got SEN or on RWI?

DD gets 2 reading books a week home, and has since just after she started in September.

Horrible ORT books that are mostly not decodable, and boring as hell (for me, she loves them).

DS is in reception and has language related SEN, he started getting reading books sent home from near the beginning of school. His first books were just picture ones for us to discuss with no words! My friend's kids at different local schools started getting books at different points in the Xmas term. So I really don't think there is any uniform time for schools, they may just have not bothered doing it for any of the kids yet.

DS is on Oxford Reading Tree btw. Out of sheer nosiness can I ask whether your DS's problems are with speech sound production or expressive or receptive language problems?

I meant from the beginning of September, rather than from the beginning of school.

DS has Problems with making correct sounds, totalchaos, so I guess it's a productive speech problem (thank goodness his receptive speech is okay, although his grammar is quite odd sometimes, too). For instance, he sounds out 'pin' as 'buh-ih-unn', or he says "nuh" for "the", and says "t!-ae-t!" if he tries to spell "cat".

DS has had 2 books a week since almost starting school. They read twice a week in class with home feedback. DS on Oxford Reading Tree too. He loves them but they're so so boring.... You can buy them though. Has also had 2 parents evenings by now! How about the Jolly Phonics books or even the DVD package? Its really attractive and fun for them. Its got 3 levels, easy to hard. Lots of games and funny pictures which move.