What age did u read your child's school reading book with them until?

[Blossomgoodwill]

Ds (8 in Jan) is becoming very reluctant to read with me and it is obvioulsly a complete chore to him. He finds the school books really boring.
He is a good reader for his age and is reading Harry Potter books which obv. are far more interesting.
He would prefer to read his school books on his own as he can read them quicker. I know he understands everything he reads as often ask him questions to check.
Am I right in allowing ds to read them alone or should I still insist we read together?

[Blossomgoodwill]

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[MerryKidMas]

If he is happy to read them by himself then I would be happy too. How about getting him to read outloud while you are cooking or something so you can still hear him but not watching him. Or, ask him question about the story just to be sure he has read and absorbed the story.

DD is almost 7 and I still listen to her reading. She still enjoys reading to me so it isn't an issue for us yet.

[Blandmum]

my dd will be 9 in jan and is avery good and enthusiastic reader. i no longer listen to her each day, but we discuss the books she reads, and she reads to me when we drive to school. she can just about read anything , so i don't seem much point if i am being homest.

[PrincessPlumPuddingHead]

no, let him read alone. if you know he reads well, then let him fly!
my dd is 7, reads very well now, and I don'treally listen to her read much any more either. she gets listened to at school 2ce a week so I get the feedback from that, but if I ask her to read to me she says "but mummy it is much faster if I read by myself".

she is right, too!

[roisin]

At this stage I think it's more beneficial to talk about books and authors, than to listen to children read.
I often read books ds1 (8.5) has just read so that we can chat together about them.
DS1 is happy to read aloud, and does so occasionally, but I think he would soon get very tired of it if we insisted on it every night.

[singersgirl]

I try to listen to DS1 (7) read most nights, but he only reads a page or so to me - he doesn't really have school reading books any more, so he just reads a bit of whatever he is reading (right now "The Bad Beginning") and I usually read a few pages to him out loud; then he reads on in his head. He doesn't really enjoy reading out loud either so I'm getting more relaxed about this and devoting attention to DS2 (4) who is reading to me for longer periods now.

[SueW]

My post has already been written by PPPH, roisin and mb.

It's useful to hear DD (9yo, Y4) read occasionally as there some words she still doesn't know how to pronunce even if she knows what they mean cos of the context e.g. scarcely is one we came across recently.

[rockinrobinkie]

ds is doing nicely with his school reading but cheats like anything on words whose pronounciation or meaning he doesn't know (he woke up this morning "But mummy, my tummy's aching so rapidly" - that was from last week's book, I happen to know) - so I still insist we read together for most of the book. Poor thing, he does find it a chore - has very stumbly articulation at best of times.

One thing that does help his stumbling is standing up and reading "as if at assembly" - just offering that in case anyone else has the same issue.

[clerkKent]

I read to DD (8 in Mar) for about 15 mins every night, but I don't ask her to read to me. Then she sometimes reads some other book herself. I find Jacqueline Wilson very moving, but she doesn't.