...said the mother of a genuinely brilliant six year old - six years three months, to be precise, and already reading Alice in Wonderland, though having trouble with tables. Splitting up the twos into groups of five at a time, and coming back to reinforce hesitations after an interval knocked out the twos and then we worked on threes. Met the parents again ten days later - "Had those tables stuck?" Yes.
And my pupil who had severely injured himself is now doing well, reading on his own, and tackling words like exhausted with no problem. Exhausted - have to know not to pronouce the h, unlike exhale, and to put the stress on the second syllable, unlike excellent. Also the slightly difficult au pattern. Nice to see him putting all three together.