How often does your reception child get their book changed?

[flabbyapronbelly]

Am getting v frustrated at the rate my dd is having her books changed. She started reception all day on 20 Sept and since then has only had 3 books. Her current book has not been changed since last Thursday. I want to listen to her read daily but so far she has had 2 nursery rhyme books to learn which she pretty much knew anyway but which we did keep practicing and 1 wordless book. We have loads of story books at home and we read several stories a day plus her school book and we also go to the library every week for non fiction related to the topic she is doing. At a phonics meeting the school held, they did say they aim to change them more than once a week but it does seem to be taking them quite a while to getting round to it. I am just wondering if this is quite normal or whether I am being very PFB and should speak to her school about it? Tia

Pop in to her class..hand the book to the teacher and say "Oh she's finished this a while ago...culd she bring a new one home this evening?"

With a smile. My own DD has a new one every time she finishes the old one.

Three times a week, two books each time. No pressure to read both, but usually DD keen to.

Reads with teacher twice a week, another day she may, or may not, read with a Year 6 pupil.

Do you have a home/school book to record comments in? Just say that you have read the book and that your DD is keen to read more; my daughters reception teacher soon cottoned on to the fact that my DD loved books and reading, and soon increased the amount and turnover of books.

yep have a home school book. Have been putting comments in everytime we read, but think will do what you say lovecheese - can't get more explicit than that!

Once a week for us. Dd is in year 1 now and her books are longer, so they can last her at least a week now. But when she was in reception, we just read the school book on the night it came home and then read other stuff for the rest of the week. I think it's best to do that in any case, so they get a bit of variety and aren't just reading 'scheme' books.

Areana - that's a good point. Were you reading to her the rest of the time? Other than reading scheme books, the words in other books are not cvc enough for her to be able to read.

Daily - agree - comment in the book.

Here when ds1 was in reception he got a a book a week that he also read in his guided reading group with the teacher and bought home to read over the weekend. Ds2 is in reception now and no books yet. Nobody gets books til after half term they focus on phonics and familiarity of key words in the first half term.

Once a week here as well. Brings it home on a Friday to be back Monday. They get to read with the teacher or ta usually on a Thursday. We just read lots of other books during the week. DS is in reception and is just on one word only books. DD is in Yr 1 and is on several sentences per page books and reads very well. They read their school books once or maybe twice before.

flabby, no, I was hearing her read to me every day (and reading to her as well, obviously). There really isn't any reason why they have to be reading school books. You can get early readers' books from the library. FWIW my dd made very rapid progress and is now reading 'The Worst Witch' in her first half-term of Y1. I've no way of knowing how much that is down to the variety of things she read to me in reception, but I imagine it must have helped.

My perspective was that we didn't depend on the school to provide reading matter. I think this meant that I had a nice relaxed relationship with them and didn't feel anxious or pushy about what they gave her to read, plus she actually got better reading matter.

If you wanted to get some more phonic books for her to read at home, Red House are doing a good offer on Read Write Inc early readers (very phonic scheme)
www.redhouse.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/productSearch_10151_18251_184018_100___10_SimpleSearch_2_1_2__basicSearch_read+write+inc
I like these books - good stories and lots of phonic practice.
I agree you shouldn't have to buy your own in an ideal world but might be useful - especially if you have any more DC's that could use them later. They also have a good offer on Floppy's phonics ( if you think your DC won't be totally sick and tired of ORT!). I've not used these so can't comment on how good they are.
I would however also recommend Songbirds Phonics (again the early books are on offer from Red House)
www.redhouse.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/productSearch_10151_1825

Ooops - sorry - second link should be...
www.redhouse.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/productSearch_10151_18251_171342_100___10_SimpleSearch_2_1_2__basicSearch_early+reader

My DD changes hers two . three times a week. There was an issue at the start as the school expects the children to change their books on book change day themselves. They are allowed to take any book just for the story and then a reading scheme book.

DD used to choosing one story book at pre-school so she just came back with one. I spoke to the teacher to ask how many reading books she should be having a week. She now gets about the right amount of books to read each week.

DD is in reception and she gets approx 2 school library books a week. She also has one reading book (Oxford reading tree) per week which is approximately 8 pages long with about 3 words per page. DD has usually memorised it by day 2!

DS only has one library book per week which we read and he draws a picture relating to it. Next half term is when they start getting reading books home. We also have a word book to practise reading and writing sentences.

We do read a lot of books in between so am just going with what school are doing

Ds gets a new book most days

at my DCs school they can change their story books every day if they want to, but they didn't start their reading scheme till the febuary of reception year. the focus seems to be on encouraging children to enjoy sharing stories with parents before pushing them to actually read. My DD1 is older in her year and picked up reading very quickly once she started the reading scheme, whereas DD2 who is an august baby, could just about cope with a whole day at school, and really struggled with the reading scheme at first. she is now in yr 1 an d only beginning to get more confident with reading.

you could speak to the teacher about it( is there a parents evening soon? or arrange to see the teacher after school one day)- it might give you an insight into the school's approach to teaching reading which would help you to decide what to do at home.

We get one book per week. We are advised to read it every day to learn the words.

DD doesnt get any books to read other than the weekly book she gets from the library in a topic to interest her. Last week it was whales and this week its wind instruments , They havent started any type of reading scheme. We get books from the library regularly and she already reads but I dont think the school would know this as yet. I beleive they will start reading after chistmas.

herecomesthescience - what I wanted to say but you have said it so well I won't bother!