How often does your reception-aged child read to an adult at school (not including you)?

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Just curious really.

DD started school in September and seems to be doing well in reading. We try to have her read to us most days but I would say that she gets to read to another adult (ie a teacher, teaching assistant or parent helper) maybe once every 2 or 3 weeks.

We are very happy with the school and it was our first choice, but as this is all new to me I just wondered what the norm was. I do realise that education is a partnership and that's why we get her to read her reading book to us as often as possible but I like it when I see comments from other adults in the reading diary because it gives me an idea of how she is doing in the view of someone who probably knows a lot more about it than me!

By "sharing books" I mean you reading to her, not her having to always read to you, btw. Choosing a book to read together is signalling to her that books have value, and reading is a valuable activity.

Reception: almost every day. Very small school so they get lots of one to one.

Inner city state school: they have a reading day once a week where they read individually to the teacher. (She always updates their reading diary.) DD says she usually reads to a volunteer and the TA too, so I think three times a week. We try and do reading every day at home but sometimes she’s too tired.

Every day in Reception and comments in book. However, she was always so tired after school that we only read her school book at home once or twice a week (very reluctantly!).
Whilst you'll see a huge variation on here, I wouldn't worry as long as you can do a bit at home. My DD has always much preferred me reading TO her, rather than reading herself (of course!!). In Reception and Y1she made very slow progress. Suddenly in Y2 she now reads very well and has a huge vocabulary - maybe helped by all the books I read to her?

As a volunteer helper one morning a week, I 'share' books and get through about half the class in 3 hours. Between the TA, other helper and myself, the children get to change their books twice a week. The teacher changes the book box colour when needed.

It is very noticeable, even in a small outstanding village school, that some children have lots of opportunities to share books at home and others don't. The teacher is fully aware of this and asks us to spend more one to one time with certain children.
That leaves the teacher to concentrate on teaching....phonics, group work etc etc.

High performing state primary school, my reception child reads to her class teacher once a fortnight and to other adults twice a week and then to me/DH 3 or 4 nights a week.

Most days, to the class teacher at least once a week and the rest of the time it's a TA. Reading diary updated every time. Once every few weeks is quite poor to my mind.

It depends what you call reading. Every day they will be having a phonics session, reading individual words in class, being asked what they have written and red it back. They will also be reading off posters, props, off the white board, finding words through interactive software, etc.
As a parent, it was my job to do the daily reading session with my child, and the teachers to teach the systems and technicalities of reading.

I would say at our school, it's probably a couple times a week. She brings home about 4 books a week for us to read with her at home. Maybe about 2-3 of those she has started already at school with a TA or parent volunteer (she'll read like half the book, then we read the whole book ourselves at home). So it's usually at least twice a week, maybe 3 times, depending. Maybe some weeks only once. At least according to her reading diary. I wouldn't be too concerned though. More than likely they are doing plenty of reading at school, but it's more integrated into other classroom activities and probably not recorded. Dd's school is a small village school though so the ratios are very good and I think they get a lot more one on one time because of that. There's only 11 in reception with a teacher, TA plus parent reading volunteers.

Those who say your child reads to you every day at home - does that mean you've bought loads of different songbirds/biff chip and kipper books (or similar?) Or do you have a few and reread them over and over?

Twice each day. team of parent volunteers make this possible. Read to the teacher once each week.

In yr r it was 1-2 a half term.
Yr1 it seemed to vary between not for weeks and once a week.
It mainly affects the speed of moving through the levels as weeks spent on a lower one really add up.
Also it's uneven between kids/classes.

about once a week there are comments in the reading book - occasionally more. I'm fine with this but mainly because they are doing well. Book changed about once a week. Seems fine to me.

We send school reading books home every day so the pupil has something to read every evening with someone at home. We ask for ten minutes per day and most parents do it.

Those who say your child reads to you every day at home - does that mean you've bought loads of different songbirds/biff chip and kipper books (or similar?) Or do you have a few and reread them over and over?

Our school sent a new book home every day in Reception (unless you asked to keep the old one for a bit longer), and two books home on Fridays. So we usually had a fresh reading book. They send reading books home in batches of 3 in Yr 1, but the kids can change them as often as they like.

My local library is also well stocked with reading scheme books, so I usually have some library reading scheme books to fall back on if we’ve read all the school ones. That comes into play more in the school holidays.

minipie no, the school change books as soon as they've been read.

I have literally no idea.

In reception we would read the school reading book that was sent home first but we also subscribe to the Reading Chest £10 per month. They send you reading scheme books in the post. It’s great for variety and very useful if school isn’t changing books over very often and during the school holidays.

You can get free ebook copies on oxford owl. Last year I used those and bought the read at home books.

I volunteered to read with reception last year. Once a week. I would start with the ones who struggled the most then onto more able ones/ones who read a lot at home. I didn't always have time to listen to everyone but made sure who I missed last week were definitely read with the week after so some were every 2 weeks.
There just weren't enough staff to listen to everyone more often.

In reception I think it was usually every two weeks, sometimes 3 or 4.

Our school has a chronic organisational problem getting parent volunteers in. Makes me want to bang my head against a brick wall.

In parent mode I would like eleven everyone to do it every week but there just aren't enough adults to do it currently.

I listen to reception once a week. I would love to have them read more, especially the ones who don't read at home, but there are no parent volunteers and not enough staff to do that.

Thanks for the replies. Our school sends a new book home twice a week and we get through it that evening. It isn't replaced till the next "book day". I might ask if they can send more home for the days in between.

If not then I'll look into Reading Chest and Oxford Owl thanks. And local library which I always forget about! DD does do phonics apps on the ipad sometimes.

Reception and yr1 it was maybe once a fortnight, she was one of the better readers and therefore de-prioritised. The school relies on volunteers and her class didn't have many. By yr2 they had more and more still in yr3, I think it's at least twice a week now with another volunteer testing her on times tables most weeks.