DD5 (reception) is now on orange reading books. Initially she would read a whole book at school and then the same one at home when she came home (she gets a new book every day from school) then as she progressed up she would read half a book at school and then half with us at home.
She's now on orange which have more words in than previously and the ones we've had home over the past week or so have roughly 24 pages and school seem to be doing approx 4-6 pages a day with her, leaving up to 20 pages for us. If I ask the school whether we are expected to finish the book at home every evening I get a generic 'whatever you can do at home will enhance reading' etc etc but we're struggling to keep DD motivated to finish the whole book, yet we've uo to now always had a book a day so it's in my mindset that we need to finish it. I just wondered what the actual expectation/ideal/realistic view is of this and what other people do. I'd love her to finish the books and set this as a target, but since she seems to be reading less at school this term (another issue I won't go into) I wondered at what point/level does the 'book a day' plan not become appropriate given the longer stories. For background I know some parents aren't that strict with finishing books or reading at home every day with their Dc but DD has absolutely always finished her reading book at home every day bar illness. She generally likes it and doesn't complain too much .
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Orange reading level - how much of a book should DD read at home?
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RoastieToastieReastie · 09/05/2016 19:09
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