My feed
Premium

Please
or
to access all these features

Join our Primary Education forum to discuss starting school and helping your child get the most out of it.

Primary education

Teaching my son to read at home (and some maths) - what do I need to get?

7 replies

2010aQuintessentialOdyssey · 24/01/2010 20:49

Our son was 4 in June, but as children dont start school where we live now in Norway until the year they are 6, he is still a year and a half away from starting school.

But we may be returning to the UK for that schoolyear, and he will have missed out on both reception and year 1. He is bilingual and bright.

We want to work through some phonics reading and maths at home. Any suggestions?

OP posts:
Report
Mongolia · 24/01/2010 20:54

I used this book as a guideline (not as a gospel).

DS was reading short words before he was 4, and I only covered a little bit less than a fourth of the book. (he had learned all his letters beforehand playing with the magnets on the fridge, which I got not because I was a pushy parent but because he loved magnets and alphabets were the cheapest ones)

Report
maverick · 24/01/2010 20:57

For reading, look at the programmes listed here marked with a pink X.

www.aowm73.dsl.pipex.com/dyslexics/resources_and_further_10.htm

HTH

Report
mankyscotslass · 24/01/2010 20:59

Try jolly Phonics or Read Write inc, for phonics, our school uses the Jolly phonics and we have the CS and song books and some work books at home. you can get them off Amazon. They also helo with writing!

IIRC, you are renting your old place out? If so, ring the local schools and see what scheme they use.

Not sure about the maths, sorry.

Good luck!

Report
maverick · 24/01/2010 21:00

Sorry, that should be GREEN X

Report
mankyscotslass · 24/01/2010 21:00

CS??? CD!!! sorry. [bblush}

Report
mankyscotslass · 24/01/2010 21:03

...

Report
2010aQuintessentialOdyssey · 24/01/2010 21:12

Thanks, I will check them out.

OP posts:
Report
Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.