How often do you expect your YR1 child to be read with?

[Missstickinthemud]

Hi, I was just wondering how often someone reads with your YR1 child one on one in school? Is it once a week or less than that?

Also, if you are expected to keep a joint reading record with the school (the kind that you fill in every time you read with your child at home), how often does your child's teacher/teaching assistant put a comment in the book?

Thank you

Bubbles what about the children whose parents don't read with them every day? How do those kids manage?

Genuine question. I'm not saying a word against state schools, but your post seems to say it's not necessary for a teacher to read every day because the parents will. What if the parents don't?

I think reading every day with the class is more necessary in state schools. Private schools are more likely to be able to rely on parental involvement (even if the nanny does the reading!) surely?

There are plenty of messages upthread which describe how those children who are behind with their reading, or are not supported at home, or are pupil premium children, get additional reading time at (state) school. It sounds as though MrsMerryFestive's friend's school is not supporting those children very well, but this is unusual.

I am mystified as to how a teacher who barely hears a child read ever has any idea of how the child is doing or whether they are reading the correct level books!

There is a lot more to 'reading' than just being able to rattle off words on a page. I have quite a few students who had previous teachers who pushed them through reading levels but actually have almost no comprehension, ability to infer, can't make connections to the text, and when writing, they cannot use phonics knowledge to correctly spell words, despite being able to recognise a lot of sight words. When they read, they sound completely wooden, with no fluency or ability to regulate their reading to the punctuation or text features. That doesn't make them good readers, and they need a lot more a focus on reading strategies than just reading aloud for five minutes will give.

A lot of strategies I can observe in the classroom without sitting next to them and listen to them recite the words from the page. I may ask them questions about something I am teaching the class or have read to them. I may ask them something about whatever it is they are reading. I will have guided reading groups. I can observe how they apply their phonics knowledge by looking at their writing. There are many ways to observe reading strategies in the classroom.

Mrsmerryfestive. You do need to compare if you are making assertions that your DS is doing better in his private school than the equivalent child in a state school otherwise your assertion is meaningless.

I am very well aware that not all children have supportive parents and their lives can be chaotic. Schools do a huge amount to
help these children as others have described and PP has really focussed schools on how to help their disadvantaged pupils.

Well my daughter has read once at school in the 5.5 weeks of year one so far!

She reads at least two books a day to me at home instead.

DS is in a group getting additional support for reading. He has 121 sessions at least twice a week, one from a parent helper, one from teacher or TA.

We don't put more than one or two entries a week in his reading diary, though we try to read something daily (when DP reads with him he never fills in the diary, I do when we read a school book but often DS will refuse to read the school book so we read something else. School only want school books recorded in the diary.)

No idea how many group sessions they might do.