Yep that and dictionaries! It started by looking up the 'rude' words and as you say getting sidetracked.
I think first of all you have to make sure children can read, actually read the words and know what you mean before you attempt asking questions about what they read. Lack of reading skills is so bad that the MOD set up a foundation college for young soldiers to go to before they actually went into their infantry training. the main problem is that succesive governments have interfered in how reading is taught, various systems have been tried and parents discouraged from teaching their children to read ...it's a job for professionals...they are told. I could read at four before I started school, most people my age were the same. Successive governments have also downgraded teaching and shortened the courses needed to beome a teacher while asking for a degree in something -anything. Too many graduates have gone into teaching because they couldn't get any other job. Teaching used to be a vocation as well as a profession now it's just a job.
Is there anywhere that shows these tests?
