Free reading by end of reception... what happens in year one

[Tomorrowillbeachicken]

Sorry to annoying but looking for some help. If a child is free reading by end of reception what did they do with the child in year one and two when the other children were reading their reading books in class?

Ty.

We are in Scotland so can't comment on reading approach as slightly different. However I have a 5 year old "free" reader. Since she is ahead we tend not to focus on the school scheme books at home. We still read with her rather than leave her to it. She likes Astrosaurs, Fact books (especially natural World / animal related), AA Milne, Beatrix Potter and almost anything really. I agree about reading age and comprehension age being 2 completely different things.

Mine has always had a weekly library book from school to read with us rather than to us in addition to her reading scheme book.

Avoid Michael Morpurgo too! For now anyway. Dd's teacher leant her Listen to the moon when she was 7. It traumatised us both (as she read it to me!)

And be careful what you leave lying around (particularly newspapers!). I remember some very awkward questions about paedophiles when she was about that age

Yes, started locking my kindle as I read romance novels .
Gonna look at astrosaurs.
Beatrix potter I might try but not tale of roly poly pudding as I'm still traumatised by that myself.

Ty all though. Feeling a little bit better now. Just felt a little all at sea today.

I don't really get this, once kids can read, why are you buying more scheme books (Project X ones) just get them books they enjoy, there are so many real books, why would you bother with reading scheme ones?

Mind you, I find it quite strange that the idea of 5 year olds not being able to comprehend anything in a book, that is not about sex and relationships that are developmently beyond them to have a frame of reference, but things like death/war/poverty is attainable, and the banded books on the subjects all seem fine to me.

There's a KS2 reading scheme too.

Does he write well? Phonics is important for writing and spelling as well as reading.

No, I haven't just bought project x and he is only reading them with his dad. Also got beast quest, some funny small chapter books, horrid Henry, Thomas collection and lots of others. Won't be getting any more scheme and got those at easter thinking I could use them to stop summer slide.

My DD is quite an advanced reader too, she's now year 1.
It can be very difficult to find chapter books which are challenging enough but with appropriate content.
In reception, she read the diary of a wimpy kid books, Tom Gates books and has now started an obsession with Dennis the menace - plenty of books for that too. We also did the Enid blyton books, the faraway tree series, the wishing chair series and the Amelia Jane series.
At school she started doing phonics, guided reading and spellings with the year 2's - I don't know what the plan is for next year when she will be year 2 as year 3 is in a separate part of the school.
And yes, they focussed heavily on comprehension and instead of just asking her to read each night, she had 3 or 4 comprehension questions to answer too. I should add that she was and is always very keen to do extra school work! Her idea of fun is having a maths workbook to work through! If she hadn't been keen, I'd have been very happy to leave any extra work till much later.

Is their comprehension level the same as their reading level?

The Roly Poly Pudding is one of DD's favourites but I can hardly ever read Jemima Puddleduck without skipping to the end to check she is OK.

Due to other issues, his writing isn't great but his spelling if you ask him the spelling of words or typing is good.
It is a fight to do any homework but I tend portion it out over time we have it.

Yes, his comprehension is good. He also makes connections from topics to others.

My DD in year 1 gets books from the older kids classrooms. The issue is they just go by reading level not content.
Just sent one back to do with history and it had descriptions and illustrations of people being tortured in dungeons and a man being hung, drawn and quartered! She's 6 ffs. Even at 8 that would be bad in my opinion.
She still does phonics.
She often finds the school books quite boring so don't force her to read them. She chooses books at home now that interest her, like the worst witch series etc.

Yikes. I think that book would go back with an interesting post it on the front. Ds loves history books as well as human body books so may have to carefully check content.

My ds was lime in spring term reception, and free reader by summer term. (His school only goes up to lime in KS1.)

For reading aloud homework, he just read anything he wanted, school library books, home books, library books.

They also used bug club, which also goes up to lime in KS1, he kept reading lime books for those, but he was given more than 100 books to choose from, and he read most of them twice, some three times during KS1. His comprehension wasn't as strong as decoding, so it was fine to read short lime books online and answer comprehension questions, and he's done it mostly to get rewards.

We also started using readtheoty for more advanced reading comprehension as well.

For guided reading, he was grouped with lower levelled children, but choice of books were quite interesting, and comp was his weakness, so he enjoyed it, I think. And during yr2, some children caught up, so more appropriate books were chosen for his group.

In yr3, he was given ruby, but school is not so worried about levels and he still reads what he wants.
In bug club, he is reading ruby books, but he doesn't really enjoy reading those books which some of them has 200+ pages with tiny letters online, so he only reads a chapter a day.

My two moved to chapter books - so away from reading scheme but books chosen by school for appropriate content. DS is in reception and was very chuffed to be bringing his first chapter book home this week after he finished the purple band.

For DD, her reception and Y1 teachers borrowed books from the class above for her.

Hung drawn and quartered, seems like quite a normal subject for kids - not actual graphic visuals of it, but quite normal to be interested in the sort of gore. Horrible Histories is extremely popular, and full of that sort of stuff, CBBC put it on immediately after Danger Mouse, which is their CBeebies / CBBC bridge programme, so right for the age group you're talking about.

But of course, I may be bringing in ideas of my own DD who is the exception, she certainly wasn't interested in reading Thomas books when she was 5 - even though she loved being read them at 3.5.

sir, I think some kids just don't like the gory image you can get from books.
My ds has no problem playing 15+ fantasy games with lots of fighting and monsters, but don't like reading graphic explanation of violence in the book. I think it's maybe because you have to rely so much more on your imagination when reading text, but I'm not sure.

He should still do phonics as this continues right through KS1 and ought to be some in KS2 also. Phonics is not just needed for reading but also writing, and it's always good to go over some, esp the alternative sounds sections that come later on.

When you say class reading, what do you mean? Like a guided reading session with the teacher? If so he should be doing the same but with a book at his own level.

We don't really have free reading as such as it is a fairly meaningless title. It means something different in every school with some classing reaching different bands as being 'free.' During and after line we have boxes of longer or more complex books inc chapter books. These tend to be ones the teachers know have an appropriate content for the age.

At five my child is much more likely to watch CBeebies than CBBC though, although he doesn't watch much TV. Or NickJr.

My DD was a free reader by the end of reception. This year in year 1, she still does all the phonics but there is much more emphasis on comprehension in her guided reading sessions - there are a couple of other free readers in her year. Spelling is done with the year 2s. I agree with the breath rather advanced due to the topics and there are some great books out there. She is currently reading Peter Pan, and has lined up The Secret Garden next. The 5-8 section in Waterstones has some great books in it - chapter books where the content is appropriate. There was a really knowledgable member of staff who helped DD find some books after asking her what she liked. Last book was Witch Wars.

The picture of the man being hung, drawn and quartered tied to four horses with a bloke holding a huge knife was awful.
The glossary desciption was; hung until not quite dead, then their insides are cut out whist still alive, then they are cut into four pieces or pulled apart.
Also stuff about people being beheaded.

Not suitable for my 6 year old. The world is horrible enough. Shit like this can wait.

As I said, the book was aimed at 8 year olds. The teacher just gave her a book for her reading level without checking content.

That's just grim.

Dd was much the same. Free reading in the first weeks of Y1 but that was due to school problems (long story!)
She liked Roald Dahl, Secret Seven, Mr Gum, Clarice Bean and an awful lot of library books.

Seconding what @foamybananasweets said - my ds is the same and desperate to get in to Harry Potter but he's not quite 6 yet, and I don't think they're age appropriate. Tricky one as he's getting bored rigid with the school books they send home with him. (He's a lime reader)