DD has just started in reception at a lovely school, with a very nice teacher. She showed an interest in learning to read over the past 6 months, so we bought a set of Biff, Chip and Kipper books and worked our way through them with her. The only reading books in the local library were much too hard so these were the only ones we had.
In the last few weeks, it became clear to all of us that DD had gone a bit too far ahead of her own ability - she could decode the various "ea", "ai", "ie" etc sounds and so could very slowly read through the page by sounding out the parts of the words, but hadn't really had enough chance to consolidate any of the lower level stuff so it was becoming a bit of a slog and I thought it'd be best to leave it. I did tell her multiple times however how very proud I was for how hard she had worked at it.
School have now said (and I agree) that those books are too hard for her and that she should read simpler things which will give her a sense of achievement. I think this is a great idea - I want her to love reading as I do. The only thing is that the book she brought home tonight, she read from cover to cover in literally less than a minute. Obviously I talked about the pictures and the story and the title etc, but the words themselves took less than 60 seconds. Do you think it would be rude if I were to say to the teacher that I am of course very happy to go with her recommendation - she has after all done this many times more than me - but if that if this is the level of book she thinks DD should be reading, could we have one every night rather than every week? I'm hoping that this would achieve the objective of building her confidence and helping her to consolidate but will build on the progress she's already made over the summer, rather than letting all her hard work go to waste. Even then it would still only be perhaps 6-12 minutes of actual reading every week, which doesn't seem like too much.
Would you internally roll your eyes at this request? Is it rude?