How often is your child heard read at school? (Year R)

[millyrainbow]

I read with dd every evening and I also go into the school to help hear readers. Since starting in September dd has been heard read by the class teacher just 3 times and never by any other adult employed by the school. (She is heard most weeks by a parent helper) Is this the norm? I think that the teacher should hear them at least once a week, if not the TA. What are your experiences of reading in reception? Just like to get some opinions before I say anything to the school. Thank you.

My DD is reception and can't read yet! They spent the first 1/2 of the term learning their letters and phonics, and have just started 'blending'. She can read 3 letter words but certainly not a book or even a sentence. She hasn't brought a single book home yet.

Errrr, no reading yet in Reception yet. Not bothered as they don't do it until 7 in Sweden. DS can actually read a bit but mostly he is busy playing .

Some Reception classes don't even start sending reading books home until after Christmas, OP. Speaking as a former Reception teacher.

whats the betting that the children who are heard reading every day by the teacher have parents who are paying for their education

My daughter is at a prep school with 12 in her class. The teacher listens to her read her book everyday - but to be fair the books only have about 6 words on a page at the moment! It takes her about 1 minute to read the whole book, so its not really an arduous task for the teacher! The book is changed everyday, I'm guessing that when the books become more difficult for her it will take a bit longer to read them and so perhaps the frequency will go down. She does her 'key words' a couple of times a week and when she shows that she knows them all, she gets the next lot. They do phonics everyday at school - although to be honest she knew all of these by the end of preschool year.

Every other day and then every day at home. Again though its a small class (19) and so that makes a difference as to the amount of time they have

DD reads with her teacher once a week and her TA once a week. Sometimes she also gets heard by a parent helper as well. She's at a normal state school but there are only about 15 in each small reception class so I guess it's easier for them to hear everyone. She gets three reading scheme books a week and always wants to get them out and read them as soon as she gets home. I usually hear her read about twice or three times each week and also practise the lists of words she gets twice or three times. So far she has found it all easy enough that I don't feel the need to do it more often with her (she is old in her year and was five only two days after she started school).

As a Reception class teacher I aim to hear each child personally once a week and my TA and LSA will also hear each child once a week, so they get heard 3 times a week by a different classroom adult. Then I have parent helpers who hear them on top of this so all children will usually be heard read definately 3 times, often 4 or 5.

loosinas- well there must be some advantages if they're paying for smaller class sizes, id have thought?

Some rural schools also have v small class sizes, so they probably get heard every day too.

Oh, I have 30 in my class and am VERY lucky to have 2 assistants (we have 2 SN awaiting statements so when they are involved in self-chosen activities the LSA hears others read.)

no idea, although she now uses the term "guided reading" when she plays schools with her teddies, so I assume it's happened a few times.

they don't have reading scheme books though. dd1 just brings home a library book of her choice for us to read with her.

Yes, Loosinas, we are paying but when I taught Reception in a state primary, the children were heard 4x a week. Once by me, once by my TA and once by each of the 2 parent helpers who basically spent all day hearing readers. One was a parent and that parent changed every year and one was an elderly lady from the village who very kindly gave up most of her Monday for about 5yrs to hear Reception readers at our school.

Though, just to clarify, not all children were ready to 'read' for for some, that 5min slot was spent going over letter sounds or CVC words whilst for others it involved actual books.

Daily for DD1 in reception and year 1. Now DD2 is in Pre-prep nursery year, she is read to 1 on 1 each day. But these are independent schools...

Do you read with them every day? Personally I think that's more important.

Sorry, on phone and couldn't flick back to check - seen now you do do it every day. That's more important than school (and actually according to research I read a while ago that just having lots if books at home makes the biggest difference!)

Once/week at school.

I do his tricky words every night, plus his school book/something similiar from home.

I'd forgotton what damn hard work Reception is!!!