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yes another reading question
just after some general opinons really
my son in reception still gets pretty tired from school but teacher wants him to try to read his reading book everynight
whens the best time to do this do people find ? straight after school before he gets even more tired or let him blow off some steam, have dinner and then tackle it ??
many thanks

and by the way her understanding of words does come from me I cant spell for toffee and still myself I dont understand alot of the changing sounds etc in the written word.

We read in the car when we get home. dd has a snack in the car outside school, then i drive home by which time the snack is beginning to take effect. we then read in the car when we are home before she has part 2 of her snack as a "bribe" for concentrating. If the weather is nice, she can have a little play in the garden or a play in the car if not, whilst I write in her record book.

Sometimes we read in the car before school if we aare there early enough.

I think it's great that you all listen to your children read, and actively encourage them to take pleasure in the activity.

I'm a year 4 teacher, and the cohort of my school is very different. The parents, on the whole, are very poorly educated. Generally, the mothers can't read, write or speak English, and they are illiterate in their home language too. The fathers tend to be the communuicators, but their literacy skills are also poor. Most of the families have fled war torn countries, so it's not surprising their education was poor.

What I do object to, and I agree with Ferguson on this, is that many parents don't want to bother with their children's education. They see that as being exclusively the teacher's job, and some of them downright discourage their children from homework and reading.

I know that's a general 'reading' rant, not really about the best timing to read, but I just wanted to say that there is a huge spectrum of parents' interest in their children's education, but good on the parents here who do give a shi... ahem