WRITING: Story Time NOT much fun

Story time sounds like fun, but it isn't, really.  Oliver finds stories quite difficult and we stick to one small page at the time ( once a week is plenty ).

I can understand why it is, of course. He simply doesn't know how to spell most words.  As I mentioned, we will, at least partially, address this in his spelling exercises.

As to the rest of the words he doesn't know, I'd given it a long thought and decided to just tell him how to spell the words he doesn't know / can't sound out.   I'm not sure if this is the right way to go, but I really don't fancy re-teachig him how to write the words if he gets used to writing them incorrectly.   Watch this space.

As to the rest, although he doesn't like writing stories, he takes a great satisfaction in the fact of having done so.  He insists on showing his story to whoever is around including his brother and telling them all about it.  He doesn't do this with anything else, and everything else is much easier for him as a rule!