Hello
We recently moved from France back to the UK for 3 years. Our 7 year-old DT's are bilingual but had only ever been educated to French schools so had the challenge of getting their reading and writing in English up to the level of their peers in Year 2. They have both done great in reading; they are in the top group in their class and at parents evening the teacher told me that in their mock-SATS test they had both scored in the high 20s out of 30. Their numeracy is also fine with smiliar scores. The problem is with spelling and writing, they both got low 4/20 and 7/20 scores which makes me feel they we have very ill-equipped them to express themselves and have not helped them enough. They have lots of imagination and the actual content of their writing is great but they are obviously struggling to spell. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can best help them? We are thrilled that they have got on so well so far at school but I really want to help them with phonetics so they don't get hindered. TIA
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Help! My DT's are struggling with phonetics and I don't know where to start
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hollypocks · 28/02/2010 06:55
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