How often does your (Year One) child read with their teacher?

[workatemylife]

Just that really! I know that there is usually a shift between Reception and Year 1, with less 1-1 reading with the class teacher and more 'guided reading' or 'group reading' with a handful of pupils reading with the teacher or TA. Groups are small-ish (about 5-6 pupils) but not all of them are on the same book band.

Our reading journal contains written comments from us on reading at home, and a handful from a TA or parent volunteer, but the class teacher has only ONCE recorded reading 1-1 with DC since December. Is that normal? Can a teacher really position a child on the right bookband or NC level if they only hear them read once in four months apart from as part of a group with a range of abilities? I don't want to seem pushy and demanding, but we have a parent-teacher meeting early next term and I'm wondering if we should raise this.

I teach yr 1. We aim to read with each child once a week and often we get helpers that will up that number. Each child also has guided reading once a week. Don't forget that daily phonics sessions include reading, as does the daily literacy lesson and story time.
If you're concerned talk to your teacher and ask them to go through ALL reading your child does, not just the stuff recorded in the reading diaries.