Group reading - what difficulty should books be?

[littlebylittle]

From the days I taught, I understood the books for group reading should be reasonably challenging, and this is where reading teaching should go on. But I always taught ks 2 so may be wrong about reception. Dd seems to be reading books a level below those she brings home when it is group reading and the last couple have def been in her book bag before. Should I be concerned? Comes in a week where words for sentence making (high frequency words) are also being sent home and are words that dd can read and spell with ease.

With ds1 (reception) the level of book they read in shared reading is generally one above the books they bring home (it varies a bit cause sometimes 1 or 2 children in the group move up on to that level just before the groups' level is changed). But certainly I would be surprised for the level to be lower - unless your dd is miles ahead of the others.

I don't think she's way ahead. Hard to tell because, and I'm pleased about this, none of the parents discuss reading levels and the children aren't aware of them. Will let it ride a while. It's just that she had a comment that she didn't concentrate too well when others reading, and whilst I don't make excuses, it might not help that she's read the book and it's not at a stimulating level.