How often does your rec child read at school?

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My ds only gets to read once a week or even less with the teacher/ assistant but brings home a book each day. I dont think its enough imput from the teachers, what do you think?
I feel as if its down to me to teach him to read........

About 3 times a week individually plus guided reading in a group of about 4.

Ds is in an independent school and hte class has a full time TA.

Dd is now in Year 2 and reads less often but brings home a new book regurlarly which I know she reads.

OK fm, my apologies then.

I guess if he can read really well then it's not an issue. My general appeal still stands tho.

I had to go last night.

Feenie, Gladbag, Oxo, your replies are really interesting and I think we all agree in the end -- probably quite passionately about this subject. I'm absolutely not worried about the lack of "qualified" people listening to children at all, so long as there's a decent literacy there.

Yes I used to drag my Y5 son from a school that finished earlier to read with Y1. The challenging and unenthusiastic boy non readers would always race to read to him.

And then here was the poster who said it just wasn't working out and I can easily see how that can happen too.

I can imagine a significant problem must be having parent helpers CRB checked. Does this happen? It was never necessary for me.

Some schools have a 'bank' of parents who are CRB checked. It's not necessary unless they are going to be on their own with children

Oh we were usually in a corner of the classroom.

Twice a week here in Reception - One to one with teacher on Monday then TA or parent helper hears them on Thursday.

Parent helpers have to do a short training session with the literacy co-ord.

Dd, in reception reads every day with teacher or TA - and this has been the case since day 1. This is a prep school and they also expect parents to read the book in the evening with our child too and if they think we aren't doing it we get notes!

I would be very unhappy with once a week at most, but in state schools there are often double the number of children in a class.

My current reception child dd3 doesn't read at all yet so doesn't have reading books (she only started school 2 weeks ago). but the other two read to the teacher/TA once a week in reception. It didn't seem much, but the school must have been doing something right because they learnt to read perfectly well, and we weren't that rigorous about practising at home (when dd1 was 4 I had a toddler and newborn and a full time job, reading practice wasn't a high priority).

I think that reception teachers tend to know what they are doing far more than parents give them credit for.

And I am quite happy for the TAs to focus on the children who are struggling or not picking up reading after a few months or years, and/or aren't getting parents helping them at home. Not to spend too much time on the children whose parents will clearly help them with reading at home.

At the school my dd goes to someone has to listen to them read before they can change their book. When she started she read everyday now it is three times a week. I know she also reads with others (out loud) during guided reading but I'm not sure how often. The school does have a lot of TAs though so I can see how they can do this when other schools may not find it possible.