4 weeks into the term...

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...and still no reading book for DS who is in Reception. Do you think this is okay?
I would like him to bring a reading book home, but we do have lots of books at home that we read so its not a big problem.
It just doesn't feel me with confidence with the lack of organisation in his class.

Well DS did not get one until May last year (started in Sept) and could actually read then. Although he did bring home a weekly library book. Now in Y1 he changes them as often as he likes - well when DH and I decide that he has a good grasp. But for some reason the last two books that have been sent have been a bit easy.

Ds1 chooses his own book from the library twice a week - they are generally not as good as the books we already have at home - I mean, he chose a rather involved Beatrix Potter last week which he kept losing concentration over while I read...

Have to admit there have been a couple of nights in these first weeks we haven't bothered (I forget to sign the record book :D ) as DD has simply been too tired and upset by time we get round to doing it. At age 4 I am not going to force her; I want reading to be fun!

Oh yes, DD also bring home a school library book once a week. DH goes in on a Tuesday morning to help choose, although DD just gets whats she fancies.

Yes jamiesam we had some rather dubious library books last year.

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We're also getting various phonics types games/tasks set. One day ds had to pick three vegetables and identify the sounds they started with. The next day it was parts of the body. Sounds simple enough? Except I let him choose his own and he decided on knees, wrist and eyes - he couldn't have made a much better choice if he'd been deliberately trying to buck the system!

I generally remember t read the book and sign the record about once or twice a week maybe. Most night I don;t bother or I do some Jolly Phonics with dd.

She does seem to get her book changed a lot though. She has on average 3 books a week, according to her reading record she has a mixture of reading alone and in a group/discussion.

She says they have been put into reading groups, she is reading group 1. Not sure if reading group 1 is the best or the worst group assuming they go numerically.

dd in reception and no books yet
hadn't expected them for a while yet
no biggie , we read lots at home and she's doing lots of otehr things at school
v proud that she can spell -at words now ( she is proud I mean!)

Some schools don't send books home with year Runtil after october half term just share lots of books at home. Ask if you can do anything at home to support learning phonics

My DS1 (now in Yr1) didn't get a reading book until after the summer half-term. DS1 is a late August birthday and wasn't really reading until then - his school didn't send home the ones with no or extremely limited words (lol at the Oh Floppy one). He did get word boxes etc each day, though. He now has a different reading book daily (Biff's birthday yesterday) and a library book of his own choice each week.