to believe that kid's should read to their teacher/TA everyday?

[sparklyjewlz]

given today's news that 1 in 10 boys leave primary school with the reading age of a 7 yo.
When DS1 was in primary this happened. He's now 18, so that was a while ago. By the time DD (now 13) was in primary this had dropped to once or twice a week. Not sure why. Squeezed out by other government initiatives probably. DS's reading came on in leaps and bounds.
This seems a simple, basic, achievable target.

DD was listened to by teaching assistant 3x during year 1 - the school is (ofsted rated outstanding).

I questioned head teacher about it. They said that:

a) DD's reading was very good
b) they knew that I heard her reading every day judging by comments in reading diary

They said that the teaching assistant and also parent helpers listen to the children whose parents don't do the reading - as often as possible, ideally several times a week.

At school I was listened to once a week, round the teacher's desk whilst the other children wrote their news - there was no teaching assistant.

So we've pointed out that it would take half the school day every day, so the children would miss out on much education if it's the teacher doing it. So that leaves a ta, while the teacher teaches other things.

Have we pointed out the disruption with the children going out in rotation for their 5/10/15 minute reading session.

And each one missing 5/10/15 minutes of what the teacher is teaching them every day.

So how exactly does that work then? the child happened to be out when they were going through whatever so they never learn that, or the teacher has to note which child was out for which 5/10/15 minutes and what was taught during that time and give it to each child on a sheet, or what?

All children in state schools are supposed to have 20 mins+ of phonics instruction ever day. This is a reading lesson, done every day- to teach children how to decode sounds and words.

Most schools do guided reading with ability-grouped children once a week, using a book slightly above their reading level. In this, they deconstuct text, look at punctuation, answer inferential questions, etc. This helps their comprehension.

Children access text throughout the day in the classroom, whether on display or during lessons.

Slow readers (and those who don't read at home) are generally heard every day - individually. These readers are generally given extra reading intervention programmes as well.

We ask all parents to read with their children at least 4 times a week.

Year 6 children 'buddy' the little ones and hear them read.

....so you see, quite apart from it being impossible timewise, it would be a complete waste of a teacher's time to hear each child read every day.

My mum was also a 'remedial' teacher, cat!