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Work is so up and down. I still feel supremely ineffective most days. There is rarely a win at the moment. I hope and pray daily that I'm not stuffing them up permanently. But still a Reading Assessment on He-Who-Is-Lovely-But-Really-Behind shows that he has started to using sounding out as a strategy. He never used to at the beginning of the year. He would Appeal all unknown words in his reading. Now he tries to sound out not just the first letter, but up to the first three.
This is an 11.5yo in Year 6 who is reading at a level most children surpass by the time they are 6yo. Lovely kid but just ... slow. But I think Wendy (teacher aide) and I may have taught him a new skill. He might not be able to read the word tunnel again tomorrow because he's forgotten it (again) but he'll still be sounding out. He has the skill!
So while this is fabulous and heartening it's only such a small spot in a day filled with drama with one child suspended for 3 days and one on a disciplinary take home. Here's the bit that annoys me.
"You play favourites with the girls!"
You know what - I don't it's just that the girls aren't being super-sonically loud the way YOU TWO are so I don't tell them to be quiet! Why would I!?! These two kids have a strong sense of justice, I understand that, but what they don't seem to understand is that when they argue back and stop the learning - I don't argue back, they just keep going so much I can't even talk - is that all they are doing is dropping themselves further in it and drawing my attention away from anything any girls may be doing that I should action!
It's very disheartening. :(
I am trying to write fic, truly.
This is an 11.5yo in Year 6 who is reading at a level most children surpass by the time they are 6yo. Lovely kid but just ... slow. But I think Wendy (teacher aide) and I may have taught him a new skill. He might not be able to read the word tunnel again tomorrow because he's forgotten it (again) but he'll still be sounding out. He has the skill!
So while this is fabulous and heartening it's only such a small spot in a day filled with drama with one child suspended for 3 days and one on a disciplinary take home. Here's the bit that annoys me.
"You play favourites with the girls!"
You know what - I don't it's just that the girls aren't being super-sonically loud the way YOU TWO are so I don't tell them to be quiet! Why would I!?! These two kids have a strong sense of justice, I understand that, but what they don't seem to understand is that when they argue back and stop the learning - I don't argue back, they just keep going so much I can't even talk - is that all they are doing is dropping themselves further in it and drawing my attention away from anything any girls may be doing that I should action!
It's very disheartening. :(
I am trying to write fic, truly.