Reading to teacher in Y1

[JustFuckingReally]

Please can I ask you all how often your Y1 child reads to their teacher and for how long / how many pages each time.

I'm particularly interested in the difference between state and independent.

I forgot to mention on my post that we do guided reading 4 times a week for 20 minutes in addition to trying to hear individual readers.Also we have Read,Write Inc for an hour and a quarter every morning, so a lot of reading going on there too.( I was really responding to your point about listening to individual readers for 15 minutes each!)

I'm a lower ks2 teacher and I listen to my less able children daily either as individuals or in a group. I listen to more able pupils 2-3 times a week in a group or as individuals.

Thank you everyone :-)

In our school the year 1 children read to a TA daily. They also read to the teacher once a week during guided reading (state school)

I once taught reception in a top notch prep school. I had to listen to all sixteen dc read every day. I had no TA. I constantly wondered what the parents thought the other fifteen dc were doing. Not being taught, that's for sure.

Also bear in mind that the teacher will be hearing the child read throughout the day at various other tasks. It might be asking them to read instructions off the board, or asking them to read back work they have completed.

I'm surprised by the number of schools on this thread still doing guided reading

My DD is in Y1 and has read to the TA 1:1 about three times this academic year, and not at all to the teacher. No doubt there would be some small additional benefit to be gained from her reading more regularly with the teacher, but the teacher will have plenty of opportunity to notice DD’s reading, comprehension, spelling and grammar during the other class activities, and I think the teacher and TA should be focussing on the ones that struggle or are not supported at home.

I do take exception to the claims made by the teachers in both Reception and Y1, that someone listens to all children read 1:1 at least once per week, because it’s it is simply untrue. However, I pick my battles

I am a year 1 teacher and have 31 children in my class with a TA 2 days a week. I simply don't have the time to listen to them everyday! I grab a couple of minutes where I can but they are all heard once a week. The children who don't read at home as much or need extra reading time have reading buddies from year 6. When my TA is in she will listen to them read as well, but time is so precious, I can't waste hours upon hours hearing them read, I simply don't have the man power.

If you think your son is reading a book that is too easy I would speak to his teacher and explain why you think this. I get notes in books all the time saying "it's to easy for x" yet I ask them to read to me and they struggle or they don't comprehend what is actually happening! A lot of my children's reading level is based on what stage they are at with their phonics so it may be worth asking about that as well so you can offer support at home? For example if I have children who can't read and understand a split digraph, I won't give them books that focus on that because it ends up being read to them at home and they just remember and repeat, they don't actually understand the words.

Mrz, why is guide reading so ineffective?
At my ds' school, children are put into several groups. One group is taken by teacher, another by ta. Rest is on their own and read and do some worksheets or activity. Teacher and ta supervise different groups each time. They talk about book with other children in small groups, guided by teacher/ta.
There are whole class reading as well, but I feel it is complete different thing, and both good imo.

I think we still do guided because a few of the senior teachers like it and no one has ever really suggested anything else. The teacher I work with at the moment likes it as he gets to hear all the children read through the week. He'd love to hear individual readers but I honestly don't see how you fit it in Mrz.
Our timetable is roughly 20 mins guided read, one hour English, one hour Maths, 15 mins handwriting. We have 30 children. I hear the weakest daily. Even listening to 5 a day for 5 mins each is 25 minutes out of the morning teaching time, I can't see how we'd do it.

We read before school starts and over lunch break CoconutOil. Not every child will return their book every day but most will be heard.

My previous school did the before school read, it worked really well. I'm going to find out if there would be interest in this at my current school. Thanks Mrz.

Very infrequently at school and every day at home, I think he reads less frequently as some at school though because he is a competent reader and they know he reads to me daily,

Yeah reading before school and during lunch- that's the kind of thing we need to push out the last few teachers standing

I think it doesn't work at my ds' school either. Before school, only parents willing to bring child early would be the parents with child who won't need it. Lunch time, I don't think a lot of children would be happy to read instead of playing.
W recently had maths session for parents. All the parents who turned up for it was parents of children who don't really need parent's help.

Always the way irvine, always the way.

Thank you, Coconut0il.
You made me really happy, to know there are still enthusiastic teaching professionals, willing to go over and beyond.
Sorry I was being a bit negative.
You really made me smile. So, thank you!

Above and beyond?
Anyways, you get what I mean!

It was my sons class teacher who came up with the before school reading. I think she finds it harder that no one turns up. There was two children on one of the sessions this week, including my own child.

You made me smile too irvine. I like to think I do as much as I can but as you say the parental support makes such a difference and it's almost always the ones who need it most who don't get it.