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Question: I’m looking at developing literacy skills in 6 years olds who have been making steady progress in reading and have now turned off to it and don’t want to read for now! Is there an approach you would recommend and is there an age by which learning will become much harder?
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elliemc commented on :
Thanks Sarah, I’m currently working with one girl in particular who was getting along with fine with phonics and reading short early reading, she has been offered other books text, offered to create her own books to read and would happily be read to for hours but resist every attempt to re-engage with reading herself!
Sarah commented on :
Yes, I think it makes sense. So she’s keen to be read to, but doesn’t want to read independently. At age 6 her word reading skills will still be developing and she won’t be a fluent reader so it may just be that she prefers to be read to rather than to read independently.
elliemc commented on :
Would you suggest waiting to see if the approach has given her a love of stories or another approach?
Sarah commented on :
No, I’m not a fan of wait and see! I’d be inclined to speak to her and find out why she doesn’t want to read independently. It’s fantastic that she enjoys listening to stories but is crucial to understand why she’s turned off from reading herself (at such a young age). It may be a case of simply asking her, or you may need to work out what difficulties she’s experiencing when reading independently (ie. fluency issues, word reading difficulties, language).