DS is just memorising his reading books

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I'm covering the pictures the second time round as he's just using them as a prompt. The third time round he is menerising the full story so I'm having to cover the pictures and read the pages out of sequence 🙄

Is this normal or he is just being particularly awkward?

I also only get/got mine to read the book once, even when they were very short books. Surely reading the same book over and over is bound to result in memorising it. If they've read it once I would send back I to be changed. Ours are swapped 3 x per week.

"Children become readers in the laps of their parents"

Imo it's as important that they want to read and find books fun (without being able to read them) than actually doing it perfectly at this stage.

I was quite capable of reading but had zero impetus till I was around 7 and wanted to know what happened next in a chapter book.

They seem to be changed every third day.

""Children become readers in the laps of their parents" a nice motto but unfortunately not factual. Many will while just as many won't I'm afraid and just as many children who've never had a book read to them by parents will become readers and not condemned for life.

As a new teacher I had a boy in my class who memorised whole books. Unfortunately he sometimes turned two pages and looked very puzzled when he got to the end of the book and hadn't finished reciting. Reciting isn't reading.

Obviously no norest, but i don't take it as literally as that. It's about enjoying books too. I bet a child memorising them is enjoying it. And there's no point reading it if they're memorising. It's part of their 'play' at that age; they see us reading so fluidly and certainly my son is hyper aware that when he tries it's not fluid. I've let him read it in a memorised way after reading it as he's modelling how I would read it.

And it's worth noting that all children in Sweden do till age 7 is be read to; no formal teaching till then.

"Obviously no norest, but i don't take it as literally as that. It's about enjoying books too. I bet a child memorising them is enjoying it." You might think so but in the case of this child (and others I've met) it certainly wasn't linked to enjoyment or awareness of the text.

"And it's worth noting that all children in Sweden do till age 7 is be read to; no formal teaching till then." It's also worth noting that most start school having learnt prior to formal education due to Swedish having a transparent orthography.

We get books changed every other day. I've never read them more than once (unless they come back from school a couple of months later, and its clear even then the book is known). What we do (and school have asked us to do) is do the games/activities in the back of the book if there are some, or find rhyming words, talk about how else the book could start/finish. And when they are a bit bigger, alternative words that could be used. All this becomes much easier when they are on the slightly longer books! Basically, we read the book, and then ralk about it, ratger than read again. Or we read a book that is similar - book about rain, find another book at home about weather, and I'll read it to them.

I had this with both my boys. We've only ever read school books once (except now they do Phonics Bug, where they read an online version too, and do comprehension activities). I've usually either gone to the library once a week to supplement reading books, or, now I'm working full time and can't get there as easily, I use Reading Chest so that they've got a range of different books to read.

My mum got round this by making me read the books backwards. She told me it was because they were boring (they were Janet and John so she probably had a point) I remember doing it and I thought it was hilarious. Might work?

If I think my ds is memorizing words I play 'fastest finger first' so I can check he can read them. I pick a word in the text and see which of us can point to it first.

I did this when I was young. I got caught out at school when I skipped ahead before the page was turned! I ended up in the 'slow readers' group after I was found out which I always felt was a bit of an injustice! Maybe go to the lo start and get books he hasn't seen before? That way he can't do it.