How often does school read with your reception-aged child?

[Tirnanogg]

Nobody appears to have read with our 4 year old since mid-November (according to her reading diary) and she's still not been given an actual book to read, just a sheet of monosyllabic words which also hasn't changed since November. I try to read with her every night, and she is slowly working through early reading books, but should I be worried that school are apparently not doing anything with her? My 6year old is in the same class, with her book being changed every couple of weeks (not often enough - she's memorised it by then!)

Is this normal?!

You can buy the sets of the Julia Donaldson Songbirds books quite cheaply

It might be worth getting some of the level 1 and 2 books to read with them at home on the nights/weeks they haven’t sent one home

I'm in Scotland so daughter is 5 and in primary 1. She gets a new book once or twice a week.
She gets 3 new camera words a week and a new sound to learn.
She also gets maths homework once a week.
They get ' story ' time a few times a week too.

That's why I haven't been pushing it before now - I can see the teacher is doing her best with an impossible situation. But then almost everyone else here is getting their child read with at least weekly in school, so some schools are managing it!

I'll see if school is open to volunteers though; I'm stretched with work but I hate the thought that these children (not just mine!) are missing out on something so important.

They won’t miss out as long as their parents are doing Reading with them at home because like you say, they are doing phonics daily in school.