Ok really boring but how often do your year 1 DCs change reading book?

[Sputnik]

Sorry for such a dull thread, but my DD's class are changing theirs once a week, and a lot of parents think it is not often enough.

Ours were changed whenever finished , might be daily or up to once a week. One to one reading - with teacher , ta or parent volunteer on a rota basis so each was heard at least twice a week by the teacher - was daily. Parent volunteers would review the reading record books to see which needed changing then take the next one out from a box already sorted for each child by the ta.

My perception is that the teacher think about 2 - 4 books a week is about right. However, it depends on the book.

My dds reading books are often chapter books, so we might read one chapter every other night. So, it takes us a week to get through a book.

However, if she comes home with an easier and shorter book, we might read it in an evening.

(She is year 1 and reads Book Band turquoise or purple, so I have concluded that her reading is probably ok and that we don't need to worry too much about how much she does at home).

The teacher reads with her once a week.

We're twice a week, but the school asks you to get them to read to you every day. Works for us, as DS gains confidence by reading the book at least twice before it goes back, which he needs to for now. Also, they bring home a reading book for parent to read to child. Again, we're asked to do that every day. The children are in charge of that though, so they choose the book they want, and they can change it every day if they want to.

dd gets 2 books a week in primary 2 (equivalent of year 1). She gets a new one on a Monday and reads it on Monday and Wednesday (no reading needed on a Tuesday). She gets a new book on Thursday and will keep that until Monday. Some of the books are quite long (32 pages!) so it would be hard going if she had a new one every night.

@Hula - I agree with you that children don't need to read reading scheme books - just my ds thinks that the reading he does at home isn't really 'reading' if that makes sense - he also won't read non-reading scheme books to me just Rigby or ORT etc.

I just wish he could take a book home whenever he wanted - have to point out that he does get a library book he chooses to take as well as the two reading scheme books.

Meanwhile I wish my dd would read absolutely anything at all!

Mon/Wed/Fri - but I asked for them to change more often but instead now they give 2 at a time, so there is now one per night. But they are going slowly its ORT, and books can easily be read in a session.

We change twice a week and I can hardly believe the poster who said her yr 1 child is reading a 72 page book! Good grief.And I was secretely celebrating my dd3 who was on 10 or so page books with about 6 or 7 lines on each having moved up from one liners!!! Oh well.....

DS gets to change almost daily (if he wants). He does it himself which means no one writes down the title names (I have to remember to) and he chooses books of quite variable difficulty: anywhere between 5 words / page (a bit too easy for him) and 50 words/page (definitely too difficult!).
I would guess they only hear him read about once a fortnight.

I think my DD's teacher must have been lurknig on here, as she had her reading book changed twice this week and went up a level

DS gets to change his two books once a week. We tend to use the local libary quite a bit to supplement his reading because I don't think two books at week is enough for a child in year 1.

DS1 is in year 1, and changes his book himself whenever he has read all of it at home. They hope that we'll listen to them read each day, and we generally manage 4 days out of 5. We have plenty of books at home though, and DS1 will sometimes read one of those instead. If they've got a particularly long book, it's OK for them to just read part of the book.

I have no idea if/when someone listens to him read at school.

If the teacher has no TA then changing reading books will be a big and time consuming job. Could you suggest that she gives your child 2 books when she changes them, rather than doing it more often? Or offer to come in and help one morning

Im surprised at how often some of your children read individually to the teacher as this is now seen as both time consuming and a poor use of a teachers time. Good phonics sessions and guided reading, where a group of children read together are encouraged in most schools now.

I don't know how the teachers have time to change them more then once a week!!!!

Im a year 2 teacher and I change my children's (30 children) books once a week. I listen to them read when I change their book and once a week when I do guided reading. For me anymore then that would be impossible. I do give more able children 2/3 books at a time as well as comprehension cards.

I'd love to know when teachers who change books every day are getting time to do it? Are they changing books rather then working with groups?

spugs - can you advise me. My DS is year 2. He's just finished ORD level 6/7 and is now a 'free reader' taking home chapter books twice a week. How much should we reading daily? We only seem to get through one chapter before we take it back to be changed with my comments.

He's finding it quite a shift (and I am) to go from a 30 page book with pictures and a few lines to full page reading. I don't want him to be disheartened by trying to read too much (though he is managing the words well).

We tend to alternate - he reads a page, I read a page - which we have always done, but we've used to read the ORT all the way through each night. Now we only get to read about 15 pages or so.

Three books on a Tuesday, and three books on a Friday. So, six per week. I think it's manageable, but possibly a bit excessive. Homework on weekends too, plus weekly spellings and numeracy targets to practise. A bit OTT really, when the latest research suggests they shouldn't have started school yet!

2 books at a time which gets changed twice a week. DS reads one book to us every night at home - 32 pages can take some time so there's no way we want to 'do' 2 books every night. DS does his reading as soon as we get home from school to get it out of the way - then he's free to play whilst I get supper ready.