One in seven children cannot write own name

[Sweetpea]

Exactly why teaching reading should start early, the quicker these problems can be found.

However, I KNOW bad parenting is the case of some of it, because I've seen it.

I would want to know though what percentage of the number are non-English speaking, and speak only the mother tongue at home.

[poppy]

good point. Italian was banned in our house, which I now regret as I should have loved to be bilingual, but it did set me in good stead educationally.

[Haqa]

Originally Posted by poppy

good point. Italian was banned in our house, which I now regret as I should have loved to be bilingual, but it did set me in good stead educationally.

I'm puzzled. How did banning one of your families languages make your educational situation better?

I didn't learn Norwegian when I was little, which I am very sad about, but one of my sisters did. She got the best degree of the three of us, is now multi-lingual several times over and has the potential for a very good career (When she decides to return to work, once her ankle-biters have grown up). My other sister learnt German and in the classroom, (Which I also didn't) and gained a reasonable degree. I learnt only English and didn't finish my degree.

From my totally unscientific study of a non-representative group of young people, it would appear that learning a second language in the home might be a good thing as long as it is tempered with the knowledge that ENGLISH is the "lingua-franca" of our country.

H.

[Churchill]

Originally Posted by Haqa

ENGLISH is the "lingua-franca" of our country.

H.

Speak English will ya?

[Haqa]

Originally Posted by Churchill

Speak English will ya?

lingua franca - Wiktionary

H.

[Churchill]

Originally Posted by Churchill

Speak English will ya?

I say again.

[Mad Cow]

My Eldest is Dyspraxic and has trouble writing, he joins High School next year and although he is extreemely intelligent (His teachers words) he struggles to get his ideas down on paper because his brain won't tell his hands to do the small movements to make him write, and my Youngest has recently turned 6 is the youngest in his whole year and although he can write his name and read quite well IMO, because of his age he is obviously mentally younger than his class mates and therefore struggles and I try to help him at home getting his words and spellings done, he doesn't always get it. but I'm not bothered cos I know he will. He just needs time to gorw up a bit. his vocab is excellent better than alot of children his age and older, cos I never spoke to my children like babies.. like Choo Choo for Train.

[Sweetpea]

My Mum never used 'baby' words for anything. She believed that kids taught this way, have to learn everything twice. I followed the same teaching.

Your son, could he not use a laptop in class. Those with dyslexia are allowed to in all the schools I have worked in.

[Mad Cow]

Well the school won't stump for it unless he's dyslexic aswell.... but got him 1-1 lessons with an excellent teacher after school to give him a boost, it's just a case of getting his brain to hard wire the info in... cos it is having trouble and there is onoy so much I can do at home.

[emmylou]

had he had any help for the dyslexia? sand writing or anything like that?