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fizzyfood · 17/03/2022 06:58

Hi. My child's teacher never hears them read, does your children's teacher hear them read? I'm thinking of mentioning it to them and asking how they know what level book they're on.

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GetTheGoodLookingGuy · 17/03/2022 07:24

Never as in literally never since September, or just not very often?

And if the teacher doesn't hear them read, does someone else in school (like a TA?)

And are you sure they don't hear them read. I never remember to write in a child's reading diary when I hear them read, but we have logs in school.

I'm a TA. When I worked in KS1 each child was heard once a week. The teacher and I would read with half the class each per week and then swap the following week, so they'd be heard by the teacher once a fortnight. It was much harder, however, for her to find time to read than me so quite often I would do two thirds of the class and she'd do the other third. Still, the teacher heard them read twice a half term.

Now I'm in KS2, the expectation is that the 5 or 6 children who are struggling the most with reading are heard twice a week, the ones who are not reading at the expected level for their year group are heard once a week, and those who are working at the expected level for the year group are heard one a fortnight. I heard 90% of the readers each week because the teacher is... teaching. Whenever she does have time to read, I look at the children available and then pick the one she heard read longest ago. It's possible there are some children (particularly those we read with once a fortnight) that the teacher has never read with 1:1 because they're not around when she has time to read, so I end up reading with them at other times when she's teaching the rest of the class.

TL:DR - the teacher should be hearing your child read (at least once a term, I'd say - depending on age). But if a TA is (providing they've had training on reading) then in practice that's just as good. The teacher I work with is constantly asking me which book band comes next, or what book bands particular children are on, because I deal with it more on a day to day basis.

BluebellsGreenbells · 17/03/2022 07:27

30 kids in a class
6 readers an hour

5 hours a week

Yes - please mention it

Hercisback · 17/03/2022 07:47

I'm not sure mine does either. But the TA does, he's being heard read and he's improving.

It's worth asking but as PPs have said, it can be tricky to fit it in weekly.

fizzyfood · 17/03/2022 10:20

No never, nothing written in reading diary and I've asked my child and they say never. I'm going to ask the teacher.KS1.

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fizzyfood · 17/03/2022 10:22

TA doesn't either.

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Findingneeemo · 17/03/2022 10:30

Mine are rarely listened to. The TA notes in their diary approx once each half term, this is usually after I write ‘started them on x level’ as we do a reading chest subscription. She then checks and moves them if she finds it appropriate.

The TA at their school is definitely trained in phonics/listening to readers.

I am not sure if the time is spent on children who do not read at home each day. I think loss of parent helpers due to Covid must have made listening to readers trickier in schools.

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