How much time do you spend reading etc with you Rec. DC?

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I'm finding it hard to decipher what's expected, vs what's healthy (ie not pushing too hard). How much time you you spend daily / weekly helping your DC with reading / writing etc?

DS is in reception and we read his school book each night - it's changed every day and takes about 10mins. We read to him at bedtime although he sometimes reads odd sentences as we go along depending on what mood he's in.

Aside from that, not a lot. When we are out at weekends we just try to find opportunities for him to read signs and what I would call 'practical stuff'. He gets more satisfaction trying to read 'you shop, we drop' from the side of an Eddie Stobart lorry or pizza toppings from a menu than he does an actual book.

We read DDs school books every day and work on the 100 key word sheet just reading and spelling out loud.

We read every evening but that can be from something simple like one, two flea or Ronald Dahl - DD picks the bedtime story.

We should work more on her writing because its very big but she prefers to read and spell out loud so we go with that.

Reading eggs and other apps on the iPad are great for when I'm busy and she wants something to do with her school work.

DD has just started to collect pennies and count them in groups, adding them up and writing them down in a sum, she will tap them to count the value or just group them as 4 pennies etc, this is very new and something she decided to do herself.

I love reading, always have a book on the go or now the kindle as well so it's natural for her to see me reading and I've always read to her from a tiny age so I do think that has helped grab her attention to books.

We also won some Pearson books through MN and they have been great basic read herself books so I would recommend them.

Thanks everyone. Looks like we're in the ball-park. Blue Light - how do you attack the 100 words? We try to do 5 at a time, going back to ones she struggled with as spot checks. I find though that she might know a word one day, then seems to struggle with the same word a few days later. Is that normal??

We are quite lucky at her school, they don't use ort exclusively. My dd loves the storyworlds ones. They use their own levelling as well which is sometimes a bit of a nightmare as they move the kids up without the kids knowing. DD was put on "hard yellow" about 4 weeks before moving to the next colour band but I think they use the colours in the same order as others. Her friend at a different school is on the colour above my dd but they bring home the same books. The book she brought home has definitely been levelled wrong somewhere an older version of the book is in one box, a newer version in the other.

DD has just got into the cat in the hat book from the library. I just tend to write in her log when she's read her own, the school are quite happy about it or at least haven't said otherwise.

Good idea to let the school know what she's reading at home.

I always read to exhaustion (or the end of the book) with my DC. Sometimes that meant a page, but they quickly built up to 3 or 5 pages and then a whole book in 10 mins.

I don't mean exhaustion like they were falling asleep, just until they ere beginning to flag a little.

(they both learned to read in a few months. after that they both could read in their heads but I still made them read a couple of times a week so they could work on their expression and comprehension.)

He gets a new school reading book every day so we read that. Either the whole book or just for 10 mins, depending on if he's flagging or not. Some of the books are really long so we play it by ear. His other homework is about 30 mins set stuff on education city, and he has 25 spelling words to learn orally every half term. (I don't know if they are part of the 100 words list everyone's talking about?) I don't do anything else specific as I think that is more than enough, but I always look out for opportunities to do practical real life stuff with reading, writing and maths.

My DTs are in reception. DT1 will read anything and everything. DT2 struggles and shows no interest (he is maths mad though). I don't force him to read anything but he will happily listen and watch the words. We always have the subtitles on tv. He does read his school books but not interested in our books much - preferrring to draw.
I have dyslexia amoungst other reading problems. I used to make every excuse going no to read aloud to people so I am letting him take it at his own speed.

Tv subtitles! I'd never thought of that. Do the kids pay much attention to them?

I seem to think so. They pick out familiar words and in the credits look for their names. DT2's isn't so popular though.