how often do your yr1 children get listened to reading?? overreacting???

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My dd has just started yr1 and we were told by teacher at meeting that all children get listened to more than others, depending on how good their reading is. DD is only on stage 1+ ORT, and has only been listened to twice since starting. I read four ORT books a week with her and she is coming on great, but i feel she should be listened to at least once a week.

She should, but it's very common that they don't. best to accept now that you'll have to do it yourself - it'll save you a lot of heartache!

I agree there should be equality of listening to kids read, but this (my opinion) wouldn't always happen - the more able readers are left to themselves, dd certainly was/is

She will probably be doing group reading in class I'd have thought? Perhaps there aren't enough volunteers for children to read to individually regularly so the teacher is concentrating on children who arent getting such fab home support?

volunteer to be a reading buddy for school. if you go in two mornings a week, that'll help, and you should be able to hear whole class.

once a week at my dd's school.. she is stage 3 ORT but most of her friends seem to be 4 or 5 and some 6. I'm not sure how often they get listened to but I guess once a week too. However it may not be a teacher or TA that listens, it may be a parent volunteer but not sure if that matters? I read with her every night

According to the reading diary, my ds in Yr1 has only read to the teacher once this term when she was assessing his progress. They do a lot of group reading though so it's not that big a deal to me.

Forgot to add that ds is on the red band for ORT so his books are anywhere between stage 1+ and stage 3.

The way it seems to work in dd's class is that the less able readers would be read with at least once a week. I go in once a week in the morning for a couple of hours and read with perhaps 10 children (individually) that are on the earlier books. THey are also read with by teacher and/or TA during the week.

The children who are more confident or have got the hang of reading earlier are read with in small groups of 4 children by the teacher/TA, about once a week.

I would love for dd (one of the more confident readers) to be read with more at school. However, she gets reading time every night at home and her need in terms of 1:1 input from the teacher and the TA is not as great.

I would expect your dd to be read with by the school more than once a week, and if I were you I would ask to have a word with the teacher. At your school do they do the thing of each child relentlessly ploughing through the ORT scheme - i.e. finishing each box before moving onto the next?

Dd has 'guided reading' once a week, which is in a group of about 5 of them (banded by ability). She reads to me most evenings, and seems to read to a teacher about once a week or once a fortnight. She is on 'purple' whatever that means (seems to be about ORT 7-9 or so), but tbh most of her reading is done at home with me, which is fine by me, I like hearing her read. If I think she's on the wrong level then I put a note in her book.

My dd is Y1 too. She does guided reading once a week and reads to the teacher / TA once a week when she changes her home reading book over. I think her group are all on stage 9 books. The less able readers do get to do reading more frequently as she has a friend in a different group who has extra help with literacy twice a week. I suppose they want to get all the class to some kind of similar-ish level by the end of the year? However, a lot of reading goes on in the class in other ways. They learn different spellings with the teacher, they write stories and poems and think about vowel sounds etc. This term their topic is 'instructions' and dd told me that yesterday they had to read out various different kinds of instructions from leaflets / objects and practise writing those words. So I'm sure you'll find that your dd is getting a lot more reading experience at school than you think.

My daughter is in reception. She has 4 books a week and is listened to 4 times a week. I actually feel this is too much. They even sent 2 books home at half term.

At DD's school all Y1 children get heard (individually) reading daily. In all of infants they do it daily as much as possible, with use of teachers and TA doing it.

In reception/Y1 the get books sent home daily too, but in Y2 just once a week.

Ditto Hulababy - every day by either teacher or TA. She has just changed from doing ORT (not sure what level but her most recent Magic Key book was about a shipwreck) to Ginn which is a completely different type of book altogether (just read about a helicopter crash).

We quite like the variety.

My ds is in reception. 4 books a week and listened to every day although TA off sick this week so no books at all and probably no listening to either.

Yr 1.
at school - no idea, his teacher has written in or initialled his reading record most weeks, but only responded to my comments, not noted that he had read to her.
at home - most days, or if I don't listen I ask about what he is reading to ensure he understands it.

In the FS2 class I help in the aim is to hear them all read once a week - but it's often a parent helper (me for eg) rather than a teacher.

I've said it before but for a teacher to spend 10 mins 1-1 with each of 30 children hearing them read is five hours or in other words a whole school day.

I'd rather my DCs' tecahers didn't spend a whole day each week doing something I can do at home. IF is right - yr dd will be doin glots of other reading (phonics work etc too). Sound slike you are giving lots of practice at home too which is great.

Learning to read is like learning to drive. You have a lesson or two (guided reading, for example) then you practice, practice, practice(that's why reading at home and filling in the reading record is so important.

Seeker is right but if your dd is on stage 1+ of ORT and is struggling she may need extra help with her sounds -sounding out and decoding words. Might be worthwhile mentioning to her teacher that you are concerned and asking her what you can do to help. The teacher should have noticed that she is still on Stage 1+ and be making sure that her reading is checked - by her or TA - or even parent helper. She/he (teacher) is possibly doing this through guided reading, observations onunderstanding etc just not writing it down in the home/school reading book. If she is confidently and fluently reading 4 ORT books to you a week I can't undertstand why she is still on stage 1+ - IMO she should be tried on at least stage 2 by now. Ask the class teacher to assess her without being like a pushy munm. These early books can be kinda 'boring' (e.g. a story which reads "Floppy Floppy, Floppy, Floppy Floppy") to children who can read them OK and can turn some children off reading them. Your dd needs to understand the storya nd use the pictures but I'd still speak to the teacher!

In ds's new entrant class the teacher heard them all (18) read every day. Once ds was doing sustained silent reading she sent him to the next class where they were heard less.

I have no idea what he does now.

At my DS's school the teachers were really struggling to listen to each child read as it is quite time consuming. A v.keen mum has organised a big group of parent volunteers to go into the school each morning so the children can read at shcool more often. Why not suggest it to the school?