Reading with adult/teacher in reception...

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My son is in reception and has never read to his teacher.

Since September, he has been involved in small group reading sessions with the class teaching assistant (group if 6 kids, each reads a page) approx 5 times.

I totally understand the teacher has limited time, and I do not expect her to hear him read daily...but surely there should be more formal reading time than this?

I understand there are other opportunities to read (eg. answering written questions at carpet time)...but is it usual to have so little time with actual books??

My dd is also in reception. Her school in high achieving but just so you can compare, she reads to her teacher at least twice a week. She brings home at least two books a week to read at home with me. Hope this helps you compare x

My daughter doesn't do much reading with the teacher. She told me last week she did reading with the TA, but normally I don't think she does. She also brings two books home a week.

Wow, reads at least twice a week to her teacher! Multiply that by the rest of the children in the class...when does she teach?? I am a TA with a class of 20 in a private school and between us we just about squeeze in hearing all of them read 1-2-1 twice a week! Home reading is very, very important, and all of our kids read at home most nights too. 5-10 mins a day is enough to see quite steady progression. I would be very concerned that the teacher had not had any 1-2-1 reading sessions with a child in a whole term though.

DS reads to someone once a week but I think on top of that he reads to parent helpers. Does your school have those?

DD2 in reception reads twice a week to a TA or helper and has read to her teacher twice since September. has 3 book changes a week. I don't think they do any group reading but they do do whole class reading.

I have helped listen to readers in reception.

The teacher tended not to listen to children read their reading book and record it in the reading record. That is done by TA and/or parents helpers.
But she was listening to the child read during various small group phonic sessions etc, so she did know where they were at etc.
That said I would say she probably did listen once every half term.

So are you sure the teacher isn't hearing her at all, or just listening a different way so it doesn't get recorded in the record?

My daughter used to read to teacher once a week, teaching assistant once a week and around February (six months after starting) they asked for parent helpers. It might be that this is the time they feel children have worked out enough sounds to be able to put something more constructive together. I was actually a parent helper and teacher was very thorough, after I'd listened to them a few times and got to know them, I had to make notes on separate paper (not in their books), ie improvements, struggling, read a lot, didn't read a lot, not concentrating etc. She would read notes in front of me at end of lesson and talk comments over with me.

It might be that they start off reading in small groups so there isn't so much pressure on them and then they start to do more individual sessions soon.

In reception DS read pretty much every day to the teacher and it has continued in Y1. Admittedly they are small classes but they seem to squeeze it in. DS went into reception knowing a few sounds but not much else, he is now reading almost anything. I know that many will disagree but my opinion is that the daily reading with a teacher and then at home has made a huge difference.

My kids are yr 6 now. I have been told primary teacher friends that teachers are now not required to hear children read one to one, only "guided reading" which is as how the OP describes it, a group of kids taking turns to read in front of the teacher.

If you want your kids to be heard, then you will have to do it yourself. I used to volunteer and go into Reception, yrs 1, 2 and 3 to listen to kids read.

In my school children of that age would read to the teacher at least twice a week. We don't have teaching assistants so everything is done by the teacher, As a teacher I would want to hear my pupils read so that I knew how they were progressing.

Who decides which books/levels they need to be on?