To want to take reading books on holiday for 5yo twins?

[spokette]

DH, DTS(age 5yo) and I are going away for two weeks in the Med.

The boys are currently in reception and progressing well with their reading. I want to take along a few books so that they can keep practising but DH thinks they should have a complete break. I was only going to get them to read for 10-15 minutes a day.

DH and I will be taking books to read so what is wrong with instilling the same habit into the boys? I cannot see how I am being unreasonable. What do you think?

Just take dozens of books it doesn't matter if they are too easy. When ds was 6 and completely fluent he really enjoyed going back and reading for himself all the books he'd had read to him when he was 3. I think non-fiction books are often a brilliant way for them to enjoy reading to themselves, as the pictures make the text even more self-explanatory. Ds used to get through heavy duty car and animal and dictionary books v. fast. Biff and Chip were way too short and boring to sustain him for long. Once read, why would you want to read them again? Unless you went up 7 levels, then they might find them a bit more interesting. Whereas "real books" with more difficult words went on being interesting to listen to and read oneself.

I have 5 year old twin boys too-exhausted wave to Spokette

We're going to France and I'm taking a pile of new picture books I've been collecting for a few months I'll know they'll like,these are for bedtime for all 3-the Mungo books,Oliver Jeffers and some Puzzle Master books.

We're doing the library challenge so I've also bought some Horrid Henry early readers and some Corgi pups for reading like you're planning to. Dtwin 1 loves Dinosaur Cove too so are taking a couple of those too.I hate scheme books. I am an ex rec/ks1 teacher and literacy co-ordinator and I know from experience they go down a level over the hols so would like to keep it up.

However a love of reading which they're just developing is more important to me so I won't push it if they don't want to as they are on holiday. We'll just enjoy the picture books but we will crack on for the rest of the hols,10 mins a day but again not cracking a whip. I like getting them to read when we're out and about if they're not into reading to me eg could you just read that sign for me I can't see it,what does it say is in that box? etc

I'm also taking a holiday doodle book,dot to dot books and some Usborne sticker books which have bits of text in anyway.

To be honest we went to Cornwall with family in June and we were so busy none of us had time to read. I know we'll have more time back home in the hols.

We leave on holiday on Wed (6 1/2 hour flying time). Ds1 (5.10) has chosen 5 books to bring ... 3 he can read himself and 2 'bigger' books DH or I will be reading to him. Ds2 (3.3) has also chosen a number of books to bring (I had to put about half back or we'd have been hauling a book shop). I won't be setting aside specfic times for 'practice' reading. Apart from bedtime when I always read to the boys, they'll be free to read, look at, enjoy their books as they choose.

I worried last year about dd1 forgetting all she had learned if she had 6 weeks off from reading over the summer. I tried (and failed) to get her to do some practice over the holiday. She wasn't interested. She then went back to reading in year 1 with fresh energy, and seemed to have benefitted from 6 weeks off.

She still isn't keen on curling up in a corner with a book, so I won't bother trying to push her into it this holiday. I'll buy her some magazines (which she likes reading) and I'll read her the next harry potter book (book 4) - the chapters are a bit long to read in term time, So I promised I'd read it in the school holidays.