HOW do you do reading at hiome - yr 1? not quite sure WHAT the school want me to do?

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Okay sorry if daft question but school teacher not that avaialble and dont want to make a nusisnace of my self at a new scxhool

THey have sent a book home with a reading note book - my son is in in year one hates reaidng and i read it to him but he has a go but when i MAKE him he gets updset as he cant do it

bit stressed - and then WHAT do i write as a comment - feel a bit cheesed off as i feel a bit like i have to go to work , do thehouse and then come home and teach my son to read as its not been done at school - there just arent enough hours in the day.

can someone help

Just let him try one or two words and praise him for the bit he did

Reading has to be done at home as there is NO time in school for the teacher to hear 30 readers per week! TAs might do some but it has to be backed up at home.

I make mine read before bed when we are cosy and relaxed and it is a nice thing to do before sleep.

Dont stress though

Write things like 'Liam struggled with this' 'Good try' and sign your name

irstly you need to accept that it is your responsibility to teach your DS to read so you need to get over that.

Secondly you need to consider whether he is simply uninterested or genuinely struggling? DD (also year 1) would often rather not read, but if I catch her at the right moment she is more than happy. that means before dinner or getting up 10 minutes earlier in the morning to read before school.

If it is an issue of the books really being beyond him then the teacher needs to know this.

Presumably he had reading books sent home in reception? How did he get on with those? I would expect DD's books to contain between 5-10 words that she doesn't know on top of a variety of words that she has learnt from previous books IYSWIM? So it is normal for her to say she can't read some words.

just re-read my initial post - sorry if stroppy - just knackered

another good technique is to read along with him. If he doesn't want to read, suggest you read a sentence and then he reads a bit. Make it fun - do silly voices, actions etc to keep his attention.

Let him choose when he reads - make it clear that he does have to read because that is what is expected by his teacher - but give him the option of when he does it.

I'd say parents need to encourage reading rather than teach & therefore build on what is taught in school.

My ds1 is now 7 and we found that he doesn't like story books but prefers factual books.

The school cottoned on to this quite quickly and I also made lots of comments in his reading record.

I took a hard line with my son, which was that he had to read so many sentences and then he could either watch tv or play the wii before tea. The more time he spent fannying about the less time he had for his fun time before food.

This did work, he did whine about it and I did say if you just did it, it would be over and you could go and play.

I did have a toddler too so it was hard but worked. I would in your case let school know that he is so reluctant to read at home (possibly because he knows he can get away with it if he whines enough)

Thank you all have got some good ideas to try
off to bed now early start tomorrow
thanks all