How many times should a child re-read a book

[confusedinlondon]

Is there an ideal number of times that a child should re-read a book to fully understand it?

My DS's school required him to read a book twice before they would give him another book to read. During the lockdown I became slightly anxious and purchased as many books as i could from on amazon / ebay. He was at orange level but during June I moved him onto the next level - turquoise. I have about 22 turquoise level books.
I am making him read each book twice, he will read a new book and the next day he will reread it and then we will move onto another book. I ask him questions to ensure he understands what is happeneing etc. Once he has read all of the books at turquoise level I will ask him to re-read some for a third time.

Is this the right approach? He is slightly disinterested in reading and i need to ask him to read. I wanted him to read a wide range of books because I thought it would help develop him reading skills and would stop him from getting bored. However, some websites suggest that he would be better off re-reading the same books again and again to develop his fluency and understanding.

Should I be asking him to read some 'normal' story books i.e normal story books rather than the banded ones from school? Would this help his vocabulary?

I don't want him to feel like reading is a burden, i really want him to enjoy it and get some satisfaction.

Do you read to him ? He may just need to find the love for a good story. Reading schemes, though necessary, have always seemed leaden to me, dull, dull dull and make the whole experience joyless. Do you read fun stuff, comic, cartoons? Non fiction, poems anything he might like. Some children just don't take to it much.

DS is in reception but green book band so not that dissimilar. We do read every morning as the routine works well for DS and he enjoys it but I always give him 3 books to choose from and he picks which. I never make him reread because while I can see it would be better for his reading he hates doing it. I'll sometimes ask a couple of easy questions about the books, but I mostly ask comprehension questions when I read more complicated stuff to him (and even then it's only maybe a question a book or he gets annoyed).

Do some bits of the routine work better for your DS than others - is he happy reading once and it's just the re-reading that's a battle or is it the reading too?

If you want more books to be able to have a new book each day, there's a huge list of book banded real books here www.st-raphaels.tameside.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Book-Banding-Guidance-Books-at-Home.pdf . I don't necessarily have the exact books on the list but I found it helpful for prompting me to think what we might have at about the right level already on our book shelf. I also sometimes get DS to read a sentence every few pages when I'm reading a story to him but I do have to pick carefully as he doesn't like it if it's too hard - he actually prefers reading scheme books where it's all at the right level.

At that stage DS1 was into:

• Jeremy Strong (although these are ‘free readers’ so we read them to him)
• Captain Underpants (with help)
• Ronald Dahl

Now he adores Asterix (the bawdy puns go straight over his head - as they did mine at the same age) and Tintin. We buy him the Beano as well. And he has become a bookworm. We still read to him. I think it was Professor Branestawm and The Faraway Tree aged 6.