Learning to read - he remembers the stories and doesn't read them

[PassTheTwiglets]

DS (4.5) is just starting to read. I show him a new book once and he can read most of it but a few days later when I show him the book again he remembers the story almost word for word and so just recites it parrot fashion and isn't actually reading the book. Does this matter?!

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Bored isn't an adult concept.

When my child is jumping up and down on me and saying mummy, now can I have Peppa Pig? we don't need adult concepts to work out that she's bored. In a school, hopefully there is enough going on to enthuse her despite the fact that she's bored with this or that aspect. Actually some heads aren't good at explaining this. I once asked a head about preliminary reading, explaining that my daughter could already read simple sentences at kindergarten and would her school take this into account? After lecturing me on the subject of decoding the head then asked my daughter what the word bed meant and having been told by my daughter that a bed was something you slept in, she explained to me that she wouldn't teach my daughter to read the word bed if she could already read it. I left that woman with a greater feeling of depression about schooling than I've ever had before or since. Of course children get bored. They get bored all the time. But they might not get bored if there are enough things going on around them to get distracted by.

I'm afraid if my child was jumping up and down demanding Peppa Pig bordom would be my last thought! [Shock]

The world is a very interesting place to a young child learnandsay. I wouldn't be too quick to say your daughter is bored.