What do you think to this?

[HuwEdwards]

Tell me honestly.

DD (Yr1) has just started Yr1. On day 2 of going back to school, we were given a reading diary and instructions about frequency f practising/changing books - small exercises to do intermittently etc.

So, it will be 3 weeks tomorrow and no-one in school has heard her read yet (there is always 1 and sometimes 2 classroom assistants).

Is this normal? In Reception, they read weekly (it may have slipped into the start of the following week, but they were very regular).

So whaddaya think?

Yikes ours are heard daily - either by teacher assistant or parent helper.

Hia, i went on fri of week one to sort this for my ds.....his books were too easy.
It was sorted straight away, didnt want to leave it and nothing be done about it.
See the teacher or make an app with the head.

my ds1 has just moved into yr 1 they do read with the teacher but not everyday like they used to in reception i think its twice a week now, why dont you write a message in their reading diary or have a chat with the teacher after school if you are worried about it i am sure they should have heard her by now

Thanks for answers - wondered whether I was being a fussy, but they definitely haven't heard her as her reading diary only has our comments in and anyway the teachers always change the book after it's been read. And of course, she tells me she's not read to them.

Think I will have to speak to the teacher....not quite sure what to say - I haven't 'warmed' to her like I did to prev teacher - early days yet tho.

In my DSs'school, with the teacher they only do group guided reading from Y1 - so in a group of roughly the same reading level discussing the book in more detail, I guess. But they are supposed to read their personal reading book once a week to a parent helper.

DS1 started at a different school, and there they were heard twice a week by the teacher and twice a week by a parent helper.

I would speak to the teacher about it, just so you know how it works.

At my children's primary school, everyone in Year 1 does guided reading in groups of six (the theory is that the teacher can tune in and hear each individual in the "mix", but I have my doubts) and only a few children who are really struggling read individually to a "buddy reader" parent and may also get some LSA attention.

It's where a child is steered to a particular book suitable for their reading level (proper book I mean, not reading scheme) and as well as reading it, they are encouraged to discuss it in small groups reading the same book. They also take turns to read aloud in class.
Well that's what it is in ds' Year3 class anyway!

In my children's school, it's more a case of groups of six being given the same book and all reading it aloud in unison. As all of mine were well able to read by that stage it wasn't a problem for us. I agree with batters that if parents do nothing to help their children learn to read it's a bit of a lottery whether the school will manage it. Jolly well ought to be the teacher's responsibility though - how are the children whose parents can't read themselves going to manage?

My dd is in Yr 1 and they have 30 in the class and only a part time TA. She's a good reader and reads once a week - 2 or 3 pages Even if I did volunteer to go in and hear children read I wouldn't get her class (school policy) I am intending doing alot of reading at home with her.

My dd, yr1, reads everyday to a TA and once a week to the teacher. They aren't doing guided reading this year and I am so pleased. She has progressed far more in the last few weeks than she did in the whole of last year.