Reading for pleasure...

[RainbowWalker]

As is in the news today - big topic about OFSTED report about not enough children reading for pleasure.

Do your children read for pleasure?
Do you read to them, do they read to you?
Do your children see you reading novels?

Is it just a question of time management or do your children like to read other non-fiction things like comics/magazines?

I read novels for pleasure but only in the morning before dd wakes up and before bed.

In the day I read The Week, other varies daily papers, Heat, Closer, Accountancy, The Spectator, The New Statesman, and Private Eye all of these I read out to DD.

She often listens enraptured to what Gordon Brown has up his sleeve for the economy, it is quite sweet. Probably because I read it in an Enid Blyton - Just William voice though. arf arf

I thinkk I'd much rather read than do anything else - as you can see by the state of our house. DD is 17 and we pass books between us which is wonderful. DS1 read 7 Terry Pratchetts in a week at 13 and has just started DS2 age 11 on them: he thinks they are the funniest things he's ever read.
Always read to them, still do on occasion. They used to act out bits as we went along, you know when someone says somthing frowningly or sneeringly they would each do it too. Both very good mimcs and very funny now, and both writing their own books (dead proud, especially of dyslexic DS1 )

Ds loves books at 2.5, but today he was "reading" at his little table and then he brought the book to me with a little tear on his cheek - "mummy I can't remember the words for this page".

I explained that mummy doesn't remember all the words she reads them. "well if you can read them mummy read them now!"

DD 3.5 loves to be read to and has memorised her favourite books the Gruffalo is starting to look a little worn as are the Linley Dodd books that she loves. She will spend hours with a bob the buildre or angelina ballerina comic making up stories from the pictures. DS 2 weeks gets no choice he listens to the stories we all read to dd. She has a book shelf of her own at both grandparents and is building up quite a collection at my sisters house. As soon as someone walks through the door she pounces with a book in hand asking to be read to. We have allways read for pleasure although we don't get the time to do it at the momment.

Thomcat,have you come across a little book called ''The Development of Writing and Reading Skills in children with DS' (written by,amongst others,one of the salt gods in the field of DS, Pat Le Prevost.)

It is only small and very readable for anyone with some common sense and to quote my college tutor,is an 'absolute gem' (even though it is now about 12 years old.)

People with DS generally have superior visual processing skills (compared to auditory ones,where there is generally some difficulty) which meand that reading usually isn't a problem.

If you're interested,I could run you off a copy,it is so worth it,and Lottie is obviously on track already.

Yes my children "read" for pleasure. Neither of them can actually read. DS 4.7 will be able to soon I imagine. He has always loved books and is determined that Santa should bring him Gruffalo's Child the only one missing from the series. DD (1.4) has recently had a major triumph in that she has learnt how to climb into the chair in her bedroom next to her bookcase where we read her bedtime stories. So her current number one activity is getting a book off her shelf, scrambling into the chair, looking through it, dumping it on the floor and repeating the process.

DS has a bedtime story, DD has 3 - hers are shorter. They both are read to at other times of the day when they present with a book. DD currently does this more than DS.

DH and I both have a book on the go at all times. DH is a bit slow with his and usually only reads at bedtime. They see me trying to read weekend mornings and I occasionally get caught up in a book and try to read it whey they are around. I take them both to the library and we all 3 choose some books. Don't have many in the house. DH occasionally buys car magazines which he will look at with DS.

Yes to all three here.

my 2 love 'reading' (looking at the pictures, and ds1 can recite whole stories)
I can't summon up the mental energy to properly read anything any more so I've moved onto short articles and short stories and heat magazine (I also seem to like looking at the pictures these days)
today we went to the library and they were celebrating bookstart's birthday - it was great and both kids got a free book at the end too - fabulous scheme!

DD1 is 7 and loves to read. She gets ten "chapter" books out of the library at a time.

Dh or I always read to her at bedtime and then she will read herself for 1/2 - 3/4 hr before she goes to sleep.

Often she will come home from school and sit on the sofa with a book.

I am also an avid reader although don't have as much time to read now as I used to (Dd2 is only 6mths). However, dd1 often sees me "stuck into" a novel. I have read to her since she was tiny and we have a house full of books (2 large bookcases in the dining room, one small one in the living room, 6 shelves full of books in dh's & my bedroom, a large bookcase in dd1's bedroom, and loads of books in the attic!).

My five year old adores beng read to, just starting to read by himself. No-one in our house could imagine ife without books, in fact we had so many in our spare bedroom we cracked the plaster due to stress on the floor! Ds and I are reading our way through Narnia at the mo, he also loves Paddingon and Just William despite the dated prose. Can't wait for him to start Pratchett, LOTR, etc.