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Sree Aditya from class 3 with almost no Telugu. Do children who join late catch up?

linen_pool_4025

we live in vanasthalipuram and my son's in class 2 at an ICSE school that's a 40 minute drive away. sree aditya would be ten minutes. the thing holding me back is telugu. his telugu worksheets come home finished, mostly because our helper sits with him, and if i hand him a headline he sounds out every letter and gives up halfway. we speak bengali at home, and my own telugu is only good enough for the vegetable vendor. if he moved for class 3, would he be expected to keep up from day one? i'd like to hear from families whose child joined there in a middle class.

6 comments

  • mellow_trail_3206

    Telugu is our home language and even so my 4 year old's worksheets assume more than she knows. Can't say anything about class 3 there, but I'd ask whether they do any kind of placement check for children who join later.

  • orchid_compass_5137

    We're a Hindi-speaking family and this is already on my mind for my son, though he's only one. Saving this to see what Sree Aditya parents say.

  • moss_bookmark_2783

    To separate what I know from what I'm assuming: my elder daughter joined Telugu in class 2 at a CBSE school and started from letters. That I know. Whether Sree Aditya does the same for class 3, I don't. What helped her most was a weekly tutor who did only reading aloud, no worksheets.

  • lagoon_moon_7881

    Grandson is 9, learning Telugu at school. I started learning along with him from his textbook. Now he corrects my pronunciation. Not a solution, but it got him reading aloud every day.

  • lagoon_balcony_1249

    the worksheets being finished by someone else is the bigger thing to me. we had the same with hindi. stopped the help for a month, marks dropped, reading got better

  • willow_balcony_6065

    Ask to see the class 3 Telugu textbook when you visit. Then you know the gap.

    • linen_pool_4025

      good idea, i'll ask for it. i suspect the gap is most of the book.

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