reading

[york1978]

Once children are on white book band do/should you still listen to them reading. I have been listening to maybe a chapter and than let them finish on their own. Is that ok?

Yes, it's fine.

You should still listen to some reading out loud with children regardless of ability, bit just a page or two every so often, not every night needed.

Reading out aloud is a very different skill to reading to oneself, so still encourage that skill once a week, maybe fortnightly at least though.

Sorry, Hulababy, but I disagree. Barking at print and a skill in decoding is probably enough to be on white band but that does not take comprehension into account. It's SOOO important to read regularly and to question what has been read, often children can read fluently but ask them an inferential question and they are flummoxed. FWIW my year 6 has been a free reader for ages - which, at her school, is no mean feat - but I still get her to read to me at least twice a week.

I don't think my DD's teacher would move children up the bands towards white if they were just barking and not comprehending.

I wonder about this too. My year 2 dd had just been moved up from white to Lime I think. I really don't know whether I should still be listening to her read as I am not sure if she has the maturity to really comprehend what she is reading. (6 in August)

DD is on white band and I have to admit I don't listen to her read as often as I should. Am going to try and do a bit better.

hope84 you absolutely should be listening to her read on a regular basis. Lime level books - which seems to be the point in a lot of schools when they become "Free readers" - does not = all skills learnt, parental input not needed anymore.

DS is in Y3 and the school minimum requirement is that children read aloud to an adult 3 times a week. As the books tend to get longer as they move up the bands, we did adopt the policy of DS read a bit aloud, then finished the chapter on his own, or read the next chapter. If he had to read the whole thing aloud we'd never get through the book. The advantage of this approach is that you can ask your child to summarise what happened in the bit of the story they read on their own - thereby testing comprehension and also their ability to pick out key points!

Free reader in our school simply means end of scheme and therefore selecting books from the library, not going to the coloured tray. It doesn't mean an end to reading to the teacher/TA, or a change in how individual reading interacts with wider literacy work.

At this stage, I'd listen to them reading for about 10 minutes (asking the odd question) and them let them carry on silently if they wanted to.

:)

I've been rather lax about listening to DD read since she reached the higher levels, especially as she seemed to understand what she was reading.

However she needed some help with pronunciation as I found her mispronouncing words she had only read and had not heard spoken e.g. she pronounced ceasefire as 'keys-fire'. I've tried to make more of a habit of listening to her since.

Free reader means different things in different schools and I'm always at the number of MNetters who have reception free readers .
I would advise making the effort to listen regularly.

Was talking about chapter books, more proper free reading.
Missed the bit on "white" band. Kind of smipped to chapter book sentence
Sorry, yes - if on reading scheme type books still then regularly listening to reading is necessary.
Once reading fluently then once a week is fine imo.
I also assume they are being listened to at school too. At DD's school this is very regular, but should be at least once a week at school I assume, if younger.

I also agree with the fact that a child shouldn't be on white level if they are just barking words at a page to decode, and not demonstrating good comprehension skills before that.