Update page 5 Forced reading while book flat

[Sunnydays]

Originally Posted by JessBlu

My son is in secondary school and does not read well, the teacher may be trying to include kids with different abilities, his sister is the opposite and reads books like there is no tomorrow!

Different strokes for different folks and all that.

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It’s the whole school. The trust that run it have decided this is how they want things done.

I agree everyone is different hence why I just want her to hold the book because it works for her.

[JessBlu]

Originally Posted by Sunnydays

It’s the whole school. The trust that run it have decided this is how they want things done.

I agree everyone is different hence why I just want her to hold the book because it works for her.

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Yes my comment was to one further up which was saying why does anyone in secondary need the text reading out, I was just commenting why my son would need that.

[vhm672]

Originally Posted by JessBlu

Yes my comment was to one further up which was saying why does anyone in secondary need the text reading out, I was just commenting why my son would need that.

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Probably my comment and whilst schools should obviously do everything they can to support all needs I would hope the vast majority of children doing their GCSE would not need to follow along whilst a teacher reads to facilitate their reading skills. Yes of course a teacher may read as part of a class on literature, history or others subjects to draw attention to a point or discuss a section of prose but this would not or surely should not require a flat book and a reading ruler. As this is across the whole trust from what the OP says this includes all abilities and therefore children who in a year are to progress to A levels and I remain therefore shocked that we are talking about high school GCSE pupils.

[duchy]

The trust sound bonkers, surely those who don’t need reading to are likely to become bored and unmotivated. It ranks high on the silliest thing list. That a trust applies a blanket rule across all years and abilities like this is daft.

[Sunnydays]

Originally Posted by duchy

The trust sound bonkers, surely those who don’t need reading to are likely to become bored and unmotivated. It ranks high on the silliest thing list. That a trust applies a blanket rule across all years and abilities like this is daft.

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100% I am going to query everything about this rule when I get the opticians letter.

I won’t name the Trust on here in case someone on here works for them but I am not impressed with them at all.

[BevS97]

I think it must be a current teaching method as I did a quick google and found it mentioned on at least three different school websites.

[Sunnydays]

Originally Posted by BevS97

I think it must be a current teaching method as I did a quick google and found it mentioned on at least three different school websites.

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Would you mind pm me the details of the schools as I suspect it’s probably same trust trying out a new method. When I googled could only find this method used for dyslexic children.

[Sunnydays]

Finally got a resolution my daughter can now hold her book. It took a letter from the opticians.

Thanks again for everyone’s advice.