How often do you hear your reception child read to you?

[Jezabelle]

Do you get them to read everyday? If they don't want to, do you insist or just not bother? How often would teachers recommend that you hear your reception child read?

Most days. If dd is shattered I'll leave it, but try and do it in the morning if time. It's not the end of the world if it doesn't happen but usually she is keen to read her new book (Mon, Weds, Fri) and then I would hope she would read it again at least once Tues, Thurs, weekend.

She is mostly keen on reading tho'. Not sure what my strategy would be if she wasn't!

My DS is in reception and turned five in December. I try and listen to him most nights. I will on occasions skip. I think it would be better if we read to him more though. I tend to get him to read to us because it's actually quicker than reading a book to him. We do make sure we read his library book to him.

Five or ten minutes a day. Plus sharing story books and reading to them.

Never, I left it until they were half way through year 1 and they could actually read something.

I left it to the school to teach them and once they had learnt some of the basics tried to read about 3 times per week.

I have summer babies though. My youngest 3 all learnt between the ages of 5.4 and 5.8

My eldest could read before the age of 5 - didn't do anything differently!

He reads his reading book to me or one of us (including his brother or sister) every day, but he has other books he likes to read too, so he chooses to do that, and we share a book at bedtime.

Never. So far. He hasn't got books yet.

I have just started doing 2-3 mins of reading words per day. Nothing heavy so he enjoys it. He does whinge a bit, but I encourage and cajole. If he's really adamant then I wouldn't as I don't want it to be a chore before it gets to be really fun (reading decent stuff that is fun and interesting).

When DD was in reception we were expected, by school, to hear her read daily, from day one. She had a reading diary which we filled in each night. She read a couple of pages at school, then a couple of pages at home.

Every other day with her school reading book. When she is not too tired she reads one of her own books, but am not too bothered if she is too tired as dd has been reading since before she started school, so our approach must be working.

Every night unless ill, including holidays and weekends.

If he isn't too tired I try to do one of his reading books at bedtime and one other book that he can choose for himself (that I read for bedtime).

If we have time I'll see if he recognises words and we can try to read it together. My DS is in reception.

If he isn't interested, I never push it (too hard !)

between once and 3 times a week. I do not force her. I ask her if she would like to read to me, slightly directional, if she is tired, had a long day or we are busy out to dinner, i don't. Sometimes she reads the whole thing, sometimes a couple of pages before she gets frustrated/distracted/bored. I do not push her particularly hard, or set small challenges (if on page 3 - ok, lets read to to page 5 then you can stop ok?).

We get a new book every time she reads the one she has. Sometimes this is due to being read at home, sometimes it is read in class to teacher/ta/parent helper, then it is changed.

She does however like to read her own books now, she will pick up a book such as Dear Zoo (back in circulation as 15mth old loves it) and she will practice reading it, sometimes on her own, or to her brother, her dolls, or to us.

She also likes to 'read' my books and pick out letters/words she recognises

When DD was that age, for the most part every night, though I would never push her, as felt that could put her off, if she didn't want to, that was fine, for the most part she wanted to & if not would read to her for bed, often both - I would also try & engage her reading in general to, out in about in shops, reading labels, TV titles, newspaper headers etc etc,

she did go through a phase of not wanting to read (nerdy comments at school:( ) I found with her this worked really well at keeping her interest....especially as she's nosey & she suddenly realised there was a whole world of secret written messages that with a bit of effort she could understand

should also add DD is july born so still, therefore I certainly feel that I don't want to pressure her as much as I might if she was 5.5, she is still so young to be made to do 'homework' !

Never. DS refuses to practice reading at home, he says he'll do it at school! He's in reception. He is only just starting to get it though and gets easily frustrated if he doesn't get it right.
Every night I read his choice of book when he goes to bed and sometimes pretend I'm stuck.

PavlovtheCat - I know what you mean. My DS is August born - poor thing, but my sister in Australia is shocked that even at the age of 4 they are trying to get children to read. Her DD is 5 and they aren't starting yet.

I also have relatives in Finland (they don't start school until later still and they think it is absolutely ridiculous !) Yet their education system is meant to be better than ours.

Most days. Either the school reading book or something simple that she has chosen (she just picks out words she knows/can work out). But she is very keen. When DS was in Reception we had a long phase where he got very frustrated and I didn't get him to read to me at all.

every day. Reads to DH in the morning and whichever of us does the bedtime story (I mean I read a story to him, then DS reads something else to me). Almost never a school book. But if DS says he doesn't want to, then he doesn't.

every day that she is not too tired, sometimes more often in the holidays as she adores reading.

every day- it is very rare indeed that she doesn't want to tbh, has happened though, when she had chickenpox, she loves reading!

Every day, pretty much without fail. Plus we read to her at bedtime. It took a bit of getting into the habit, and sometimes she is tired, but fundamentally enjoys it. I find it easier to do it every day than for her to do it some days and not others. But school will change books every day if read so there's always the motivation of a new story and they are getting more interesting (for all of us!!) now.

DC's school sent home reading every night and weekend.
We very occasionally didn't pursue it when they were very tired, but for the most part we did ten to fifteen minutes. It was never a chore.

They were both reading fluently by the end of reception.

I also read to them every night and still do.

Might be worth saying also, that the school made it clear that they like all children if possible to be able to read well by the end of reception, and this would involve them hearing the children every day and parents doing the same.

Those that struggled had lots of extra help, but most didn't.

Little and often got everyone where they needed to be.

Contrast this with the school where I volunteer. Most pupils cannot read well in reception, a sizable minority are still struggling in the later years.

SN aside, these children simply do not get enough practise.
The school hear them once a weekish. Many parents almost never bother.

The result are children who cannot properly access much of the wider curriculum.
And what of their fundemenatl human right to enjoy books?

God it annoys me.

Every morning, but at the moment (5.3) it is often me reading and him doing the odd word. I have it as part of the morning routine.

When mine were reception age, the school asked us to hear them read for about 10 minutes every day (book if they were ready, individual sounds or words to practise blending if not). But they never minded if you missed some days (eg if you thought your child was too tired). I would have mentioned if a DC was resisting reading for other reasons, so we could work together to get to the bottom of it.