How often do your primary age kids read to you? Honestly?

[Awcw1234]

Have two primary aged DC. They are both average readers. Unfortunately, I really struggle to get them to read to me at home. We are supposed to read with them at least 3-4 times per week but I struggle to get mine to read to me once!

We have only ever listened to them read the books from school to us once or twice a week. They are so dull!

But we read together a lot, they read in bed every night and we regularly visit the library and let them choose whichever books they want. DD2 chose a book about poo last week which I did raise my eyebrows about but if it is going to encourage her to read it's absolutely fine.

Both top set for reading.

Ds he 5 in reception hates reading and hates listening to stories.

It’s so odd as I have read and sung and played with him since birth, just like with my dd who was an early reader.

He is mid-range for his age, we read only the school books set as he refuses to do anything else. We read 5 times a week on average, sometimes 7 sometimes 4.

And we practice reading the words he is learning for his stage and to help his recognition of exception words and phonic sounds. I gamify this as much as possible and he enjoys the challenge of puzzling out individual words.

Just recently he enjoyed a school book for the first time - so maybe we ar emailing progress.

it is very hard and I don’t understand why!

Every day. No discussions.

I still remember hating having to fill in a reading record and thankfully I was a free reader by the end of reception or sometime in year one I think so at least no one was insisting I read reading scheme books.

I was also a voracious reader, reading literally every minute I could - in bed, at the dining table, in the car. I used to read hundreds of books a year.

To me, the benefit of reading is becoming fluent and enjoying it. So if they are good readers and the school books make them enjoy it less then let them read whatever makes them want to read. It's more important it's a habit than what precisely they read. They have shown reading long form prose tends to improve your ability to concentrate so it is worth persevering.

They're older now but we used to read a bit of the book each night. When they were your age kids they read a book they chose and I would write 3 pages of X book in the school notebook.
If you can get them into reading it's really helpful generally.
Do you have a local library? Ours did a summer reading challenge where they get a prize and certificate, but you could set your own with a book they choose and a treat at the end.
Once mine found a book set they loved they were off. Diary of a wimpy kid or Percy Jackson etc and one about cats my DD was mad on.

About 5 times BUT they like reading, and they will often choose a book from home/the library instead of the school reading book. Don't ask me how often I remember to do the spellings 🥴

Every day. If DD didn't like her school book (some were really awful) she would read a couple of pages from whatever book we read to her at bedtime.

From 8/9 onwards she would read to us, we read to her and then she would read on her own in bed.

Her school was big on reading, they were happy if children read whatever they wanted but asked to give the school books a try for around 20% before giving up.

Once they could read, never. Both were good early fluent readers. It would have been like asking my husband to read to me, faintly ridiculous. I still read to them a lot (12 and 8 now).
Reading should be pure joy, so if they hate it honestly I would stop.

My foster daughter I have her read to me 5 days a week as she's behind on her education and I want to help her with sounding out and the mistakes she makes on words. My son is a good reader so I allow him to read to himself most days and he only reads to me maybe once per week as I know he understands the material. I read aloud to them probably 4 times a week with library books and such. They're both 9.

At 8 and 10. Never. They were free reading by then. We talked about what they were reading.

Under 6 daily, I read to them.from the day they were born and nurtured in them a love of books.

One of the reasons I didn't have a third child was because I never wanted to hear about the fucking magic key ever again.