AIBU to write this in DD’s reading record?

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I did not make DD read all of this book. In her words it is “Stupid, boring and poop”. She read the first and last chapters, and a few pages of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone instead.

I didn’t write this, but she asked me to. She’s 6/Y2 and the school reading scheme is seriously putting her off reading.

I feel your pain. Both dd1 and dd2 are reading books well above their school reading books. I still make them read something in order to practise phonics and check comprehension and just write a note to say it was too easy.

Dd2 (6) read hers the other day in 5 minutes and then came to me an hour later with armful of books she had read independently in that time that she wanted me to record in her reading log.

I did have a word with dd1's (9) teacher as her level is that of a teenager, but rather than being allowed to free read she was being told she had to read to an adult for 10 minutes every day and it was putting her off reading. Now I do comprehension exercises with her instead and she reads for fun independently.

Poop is inadequate as a book criticism .

And in the Uk it is more often called poo. Poop is one of those Americanisms that is creeping into the language and slowly eroding it.

cach, if you recognise the word by sight and already have a good idea if it’s meaning then it’s not a new word though, is it?

How in depth a book criticism do you want from a 6yo? DD 11 would say poop because she's too polite to say shit.

As for the creeping tide of Americanisms, I've given up correcting DS2, I'm not King Canute.

cach, if you recognise the word by sight and already have a good idea if it’s meaning then it’s not a new word though, is it? It is the first time. Well, you would not be recognising it the first time, but you would come across it and form an idea of what it could mean. I think that is more reading than decoding is. I can decode 'Finnegan's Wake' but I wouldn't claim to be able to read it.

My DD was a reluctant reader, due to needing glasses, although she did actually enjoy Biff, Chip and Kipper and got her brother's Read at Home set handed down, but she also discovered a love for the Usborne Reading Programme books. She has three of the box sets and a bunch of loose ones, which she still goes back to in Year 7 as her comfort reading.

When her and DC1's classes moved on to free reading they started with Roald Dahl but she did have a - thankfully short - Rainbow Fairies stage.

From around Year 1 to maybe late Year 3 we had to let her read easier stuff at home to work on developing a love of reading and keep the harder stuff for at school. It worked but once she found a series she loved she really discovered reading could be fun.

DC1 was completely the opposite, he was a voracious reader from being shown the phonics tools.

As for those posters saying that calling by calling her reading book 'poop' OP's DD is showing a lack of maturity, surely the mature equivalent is shit or shite, which plenty of posters probably use to describe things they don't like, but I doubt anyone would be wanting their 6-year-old to be using such language.

I'm not sure the cognitive load of decoding an unfamiliar word in a fluent decoder is enough to affect comprehension that much. Overt decoding when reading aloud really isn't a good measure of whether s book is the right level or not.