Reading at home year 1's

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Should a year 1 child be aiming to read every day at home?
Any advice welcome.

In a perfect world all children would read every day but sometimes "life" gets in the way. IMHO 10 mins a day 4 or 5 times a week is better than a long session once a week and of course lots of shared stories.

depends if you also work in key word spellings, work sheets and whatever random project/school play you need to practise or source materials for.

We have bedtime stories every evening, but sit down reading every other day.

We dont reas the school books everyday, we have a half hour walk home and ds4 is often knackered, we always read to him everyday and lots of shared stories etc.

Plus he reads signs,magazines etc and is always doing bits of reading here and there.

I took the same approach with my elder three and they did just fien, I want to encourage a love of reading not just reading because you have to iyswim?

our school say 20 mins a day in Yr1. they don't specify on what though.

We tend to do 20 mins a few times a week and probably about 10 mins the other days. Not always the book being read at school, sometimes much easier ones, sometimes reading bits in a book we are reading to them etc.

Our school says reading at least 3-4 times per week. In practice DS's read every night unless something gets in the way. The something is usually swimming on a Friday night, so we get back late. Therefore on average DS's read 6x per week to me and once a week to the teachers at school.
This is completely separate from bedtime story- I read to them without fail, even if we are running a bit later than usual.

Ds is in yr 1 and probably reads 6 days out of 7 (we aim for every day but don't manage it probably on average once a week).
It's sometimes only 5 mins though, sometimes longer depending on mood/how much he's enjoying the book/tiredness.

Like Abby though there's rarely a day where I don't read to him, even if just a page when he's shattered.

Ds2 is year 2 now, but we have always aimed for ten minutes, at least five times a week.

I aim to have him in pyjamas by 7.15pm, so we can read until 7.30pm. I then either read to him, or he reads to himself for a few more minutes.

Yes we do it before school in morning even if just 5 mins. It all adds up. I know other parents do it in the car when they get to school, whatever works for you

In theory I read with DD1 every day- but in practice it doesn't always happen. We usually manage 5 times a week. I do think it's important to make it a regular thing.

We do the official school reading books twice a week, usually before school when DD is "fresh".

She also likes to have a go most nights at reading a bedtime story, which I think is fab, encouraging reading as a fun activity. She reads stuff like 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' to DC2, for example.

DD gets 3 books each week and these we read. In most cases DD managed the whole book in one session in Y1.

We read to her every night and during the weekend. Reading for pleasure started around May half-term, she was on purple then and could read most of her own toddler books and we got library books on top of her school books.

I encouraged our dcs to read every school day...weekends were a little less organised but we read to them every night regardless of which night it was.