how often does your reception/yr 1 child get read to at school?

[thisisyesterday]

according to ds1's reading book, 3 times this year!!!!

how about yours?

Do you mean their reading heard rather than read to?

Depends how good your child is at reading. If your child is a confident reader they will need less support than others... So I would take it as a compliment.

Believe me, if your child was struggling they would have heard their reading a lot more.

yes, being heard reading

ds1's report said he is below average with his reading, though getting better. he def is coming on as he has been reading things to me.

i think they ought to be listened to at least once a week surely? he has been, until the last few weeks, a very reluctant reader

I have no idea. I think they have story time a couple of times a week. There's no note made of it, I just hear about it.

Oh, they're heard reading once a week, when they change their books. Possibly more often, but the teacher writes in their books once a week.

oh dear he's struggling and only heard 3 times? that's not good! great that you listen to him obviously, but it should happen in school too. don't they have parents/TAs come in to listen to them read? (some schools do)

Once or twice a week I think.

it's possible he has been heard more often but they haven't written in the book i suppose?

we had a meeting with the yr1 teacher the other day who said that we'd need to do plenty of reading at home because they never hav time to!?!?

isn't it one of the most important things about yrR/1... learning to read?!

I can understand the time thing I suppose but they can get volunteer parents in to do it.

especially as some kids' parents don't pick up the slack at home.

i have to admit i hadn't been reading with him as much as i could, partly because i figured they'd teach him at school!

planning on doing ltos over the holidays though

We are told to read to our kids everynight, and I'd say in yr 1 my DS was reading to a teacher every few days, there's the odd occasion where it might be a week or something since they have, but 3 times a year is definatly not enough for year 1

When DD was in infants she was heard reading every day, even when free reading/reading confidently. She has just finished Y3 and her teacher heard her 2-3 times a week. With DD she was expected to read every night to parents and now, in Y3, is expected to read 20 min a night to herself and us hear her read aloud (a different skill to reading in head) a couple of ties a week.

I work in a Y1 class and the children are heard in guided reading groups once a week, although I have known weeks where this has not happened for all children for some reason or other. The children have a reading diary and parents are asked to hear their child read regularly at night and ideally a few minutes every night. However this is not really followed up so some children wil read every night and some are never heard read at home - and the diference in their progress is very noticeable.

DS only has 2 comments from the teacher in his reading diary from September until now. When I questioned it I was told only the teachers are allowed to write comments in the diaries

He HAS been listened to more than twice but the parent helpers are told not to comment on the reading. They're changing that rule from next year though thankfully

In Reception - guided reading once a week.
In Year 1 - guided reading twice a week

not always comments in diary though

Every day from the start of reception to the end of year 2 by either a teacher or a TA. Then once a fortnight for year 4 to 6.

My R child reads twice a week to teachers or TA and every night to me or dh and I dont think that is enough!

My yr 4 child reads maybe once a month to a teacher or TA and 4 nights a week to dh or me. However he is a "free" reader and reads whatever books he wishes.

interestingly it is only parent-helpers who have written in ds1's book. never his teacher. so maybe she just does it but doesn't write in the book??
i'll ask her on monday

Once a week.

It hasn't done him any harm being heard read once a week rather than every day - he is by far the strongest reader in his class and is on ORT orange which I think is level 6.

I teach Reception, we hear our children once a week (either me or the NNEB). We give them 3 books, a free choice from the library, a phonic based scheme book colour coded by ability and an ORT book coded by ability. We set out the expectation that parents read nightly wit their children and read to them as much as possible too. The ones that have parental help and encouragement fly, it is a slower struggle with the others.

Says it all.

Year one - twice a week

ds reads to his teacher or TA once a week at school and to me at home pretty much every day. I would be very unhappy if he was reading to them less than once a week - I don't even think that is enough to be honest. They only spend 5 minutes reading with them at a time so I don't understand why they can't read with them once a day.

It's like learning to drive. You have a driving lesson (that's guided reading, or reading to the teacher) about once a week, then you practice what you've learned by driving round and round the block with your dad in the passenger seat (that's daily reading at home).

It would take a teacher about 4 hours a day to hear every child in a class of 25 read - and what would the other 24 children be up to while she was doing it? You don't need a hightly qualified teacher to hear a child read. Do it yourself - this is somewhere where you can make a real difference to your child's learning

DD read to her teacher or TA every morning. Just a few pages of her new book and we were then expected to listen to her read the rest of it at home each evening.

That is great way of describing it seeke. Going to use that explanation regarding parental input with regards to reading at school - it makes so much sense.

DS in year 1 is heard about once a week I think.