Read all the book on current band

[IcelandicWarriors]

DD6 keeps bringing home books she has read several times. She says she can't find any new ones on her level. Been on this level for a while.

We bought her some for home from various schemes and sent her in with one at her current level and one the next level up. She can read them. Otherwise she sits reading the same books over during their quiet reading sessions.

She has not been listened to for 6 weeks but finally today we get a note in her diary stating she needs to increase fluency. I get her to read that school book again and aside from one word she reads at a conversational speed with no sounding out.

Should she just keep bringing home the same books? Is that normal? Not sure they liked us sending in books. She seems fluent at home.

I would have a word with the teacher. Reading the same books over and over again doesn't really inspire a love of reading, and it sounds like she's not being challenged sufficiently.

You're doing the right thing providing books at home of course but school should also be responsive to her reading ability.

I've put several notes in her reading diary about helping her find one she hasn't read but it was 6 weeks between their entries and seem to have been ignored.

It is split class of Y1/Y2 and I wonder if Y2 SATs have been the focus.

I don’t reread the books. I send them back unread and read a home book and put a comment in his home reading record book

6 weeks?!

My Year 2s are read with every, single day. Books are changed daily if necessary. They never re-read a book.

You need to address this ASAP.

How do you know no one has listened to her for 6 weeks (do not believe your child, not because she is lying, but she may have simply forgotten)?

if this is really the case, then you definitely should be querying it (in Y2, my DC had guided reading or individual reading twice a week - I think every day would be unusual in a state school).

I'd also ask the teacher what s/he means by "reading fluently" and explain that DD sounds pretty fluent to you!

I teach in a state school. All children in every year are read with every day.

Any guided reading or individual reading is marked in her reading diary. There hasn't been any comments for 6 weeks and she says she hasn't read to anyone. Normally once a week.

What’s phonics program is she doing?

I think you need to talk to the teacher and ask for clarification about frequency of reading at school,what does she mean by fluency(is it a certain number of words per minute) ,how often the reading records are checked and since she's bored of rereading the books from school can she read other ones at home. Once these have been clarified you can decide what to do next.

We'll have a chat with them tomorrow. They have Ginn360, Big Cat Phonics and a few other reading schemes. I think they said Bug phonics or something?

I had the repetition issue with DD1 earlier this year - just spoke to the teacher, said I wasn't doing the pushy parent wanting her moved up thing - but she was saying she couldn't find any books she hadn't already read, could they point her toward some that she hadn't (I doubted the school only had like 10 orange band books somehow). There was a whole other half of the bookshelf she hadn't realised was the same coloured band there for her as it turned out.

Our current school hears them all at least once a week - mix of class teachers, TAs, parent helpers hearing them read and the teachers try to jiggle it so they check in and hear a child who they've not heard for a few weeks (otherwise you end up with the same kids ending up being heard by the same people just because of how their place on the reading list and the pattern of people in during the week falls).

Actually I did ask for the class teacher to hear DD2 read as I thought she was probably at the point of needing to move up a book band at one point - teacher was fine with me doing that. Our school is a lot more approachable and amenable on this kind of thing than many schools and it was by the point in the term where the staff knew me well enough to know I'm not some kind of "my child is mini Einstein and I want to brag to Doris next door they're a better reader than her kid" pisstaker.