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Year 3 reading to teacher

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anotherglass · 29/09/2010 21:06

How often is your child reading to their teacher in Year 3?

DS (7) was reading to his teacher (or TA) at least once a week in Year 2 but I checked his reading record tonight and teacher now says she is encouraging him to "read quietly". He says he hasn't read to teacher for past 2 weeks.

He is a good reader but does that mean the teacher is not required to listen to him as frequently?

I plan to talk to teacher tomorrow.

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GypsyMoth · 29/09/2010 21:08

ds is yr 3.....it seems to be around three times a week,new book once,sometimes twice,a week too.

its to TA and teacher , and to me every night

Hulababy · 29/09/2010 21:09

DD read to her Y3 techer once a week, s did all the children. As parents we were also expected to listen to her read once a week. Rest of time was reading to herself.

Her school places a lot of importance on the skill of being able to read aloud. It is a very different skill to reading to oneself.

FranSanDisco · 29/09/2010 21:14

Ds has read once to his teacher since going back to school on 8th September. I have supplied the book from home (Roald Dahl) and listen to him several times a week. We mix silent reading and reading aloud - sometimes he recaps and other times I listen. As long as he's reading I don't fret about the teacher.

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anotherglass · 29/09/2010 21:20

FranSanDisco, appreciate you aren't fretting but why has the teacher only listened to your DS read only once?

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magicmummy1 · 29/09/2010 23:13

My dd hasn't read to her teacher at all yet since September. I'm not worried about it - she has read to a parent volunteer a couple of times, and she reads all the time at home!

In our school, the teacher seems to spend more time listening to the kids who are struggling, while the more proficient readers tend to read with the TAs or parent volunteers.

Stinkyfeet · 29/09/2010 23:19

ds1 tells me he hasn't yet read to his teacher in yr3, however he has skipped a reading level so I am assuming he must have read to somebody at some stage to approve this! He also tells me that they read to themselves in class.

Madsometimes · 30/09/2010 11:12

About once a week, usually to the TA not the teacher. Children do quiet reading every day.

flaime · 30/09/2010 18:44

Once our kids hit year 3 they don't read to the teacher anymore unless they haven't made it to free reader stage, but they do have 15 mins reading time every day where they sit quietly and read to themselves.

purpleturtle · 30/09/2010 18:47

DS1 tells me he doesn't have to read to the teacher any more because he is a free reader.

FranSanDisco · 30/09/2010 18:50

anotherglass, sorry just come back to this. I don't know why she hasn't listened to him but he is a free reader so I guess he is a lower priority. There isn't a TA and he has over 30 in his class plus many EAL at various reading competency levels. I will enquire at parent's evening (this term) but as I say I have it covered .

Hulababy · 30/09/2010 19:03

Even free readers ought to be reading aloud at least a little bit.

If they are not reading individually to the teacher, do they have a class reader where they take it in turns to read aloud to the class.

Seriously, reading aloud is a very different skill to reading in ones head, and it did ought to be practised weekly at least.

BrigitBigKnickers · 30/09/2010 19:04

One thing you need to bear in mind is that reading a reading book is not the only sort of reading children do at school.

Teachers in junior school often don't have time to hear readers as often as in KS1 as there is a ridiculous amount of subjects to cover however this doesn't mean they won't know about your child's progress in reading.

You might find they are taking part in guided reading activites in an ability group during the Literacy hour or they are reading to the teacher during science or literacy heavy foundation subjects such as History.

Personally I think children should read out loud regularly to an adult and the teacher needs to do this every so often ( even for fluent readers) but most of it needs to happen at home as hearing a class of 30 read will take a couple of hours if it's done properly.

blametheparents · 30/09/2010 19:20

Guided reading, ie with a teacher, once a week in Year 3 followed by homework which tells Ds which page to read to at home and questions about the book.

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anotherglass · 30/09/2010 21:16

My son is a free reader but his understanding does need work. He focusses on the words and not the thread of the story.

We read every night at home but understanding is something the teacher also needs to monitor, and nurture, surely?

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