Quick Poll: your experiences of reading books and reading records please

[Overmydeadbody]

I have concerns with regard to this with DS, but I don't know what is the norm, so:

1. How often does your DC's reading book get changed/how often do they bring home a reading book from school?

1. Do they have a reading record that you fill out and does the teacher look at it and/or leave comments in it too?

1. Twice a week (yrR and yr2 for dcs)

1. Yes, comments looked at and responded to if necessary, teacher also puts comments on guided reading

Your school should have a literacy policy on this if you're concerned.

twice a week? wow

now I'm really concerned

DS is in Yr 3 now but since Reception they get a reading book and their reading record book and it is checked every day. If you sign that the book has been read it will be changed. Or you can ask to keep it for another day or so.

We tend to read a book every night but now he is on Stage 11 they are long so we may only do half one night and finish the next.

The teacher writes in the book whenever she listens to them read which isn't that often really. I go in as a parent reader and I write in the record book that the child has read with me up to page whatever.

One book a week. None at half term or holidays. No option of getting anymore. Sometimes get the same book home.

No reading record or any other home-school communication tool.

Is very frustrating, but school say they get results, so they are happy with what they do.

What are your specific concerns OMDB?

Oh, and unless in the 'bottom' set, no individual reading at school (well, maybe once a term). Group reading once a week/fortnight. This is R to Yr2.

There is more support for those struggling though.

Ok, now I'm getting angry and upset

DS hasn't had a book home since january. He's had four books home since september. I know for a fact some of his friends get a new book every week.

I am going to start a different thread about it.

Keep the replies coming.

Ours are changed once a week (dd2 in reception). This seems to be standard in the schools my dc have been in. She gets two books a week though. The TA hears them read and writes in the reading record. I don't think the teacher does that herself, as far as I can see. Again this seems to be standard (3 dc across two different schools).

The friends who get a new book every week -- are they in the same school/class? If so, I'd have a word with the teacher pronto.

1. Potentially twice a week, two books each time (Y1), although if reading record is not signed, books won't be changed.

1. Yes - person changing the books will check the record (see 1) and then pull any out that have specific comments for the teacher. Teacher/TAs also put in comments re any reading done in school.

Get some butt-kicking done OMDB! That's unacceptable.

DS had a reading record (now defunct). His book got changed whenever he read with someone (usually a volunteer or parent) - usually once a week, but he could change them if he wanted to more regularly. We wrote in the reading record but I doubt anyone looked at it! Teacher left a comment when she assessed him and moved him up a level.

Did you ask what had happened when one week went by without a new book? It sounds as if something has gone wrong somewhere.

I have a confession. As an NQT I had a card index system which I worked through in order to hear my readers. One poor child did not get any reading for four weeks as his card had fallen down the back of the desk.

It still haunts me

Reading book and record brought home every night. Dd (y1) is expected to read for 5 - 10 mins each night and then I, or whoever listens to her, writes a comment. When her book is finished, it's changed, whether that's one a day or one a week. Ds1 (y3) is expected to read 10 mins per night from a book he chooses from the school library and then he writes his own comment about what he is reading and I sign it - he has to remember to change his own book when it is finished, which he doesn't always do.

gggrrrrrr

I fear DS is just being overlooked

DD1 in Reception

Reading book once a week - Rigby Rockets

No 'reading record' or anything for me or the teacher to make notes in

But dd has come back with a different level of book 3 times so I assume the teacher is monitoring her reading progress

My DD(yr2) has the responsibility at school to change her own reading book when we've finished it so it all depends on whether she remembers/can be bothered/isn't too busy chatting at book change time.

They have guided reading potentially once a week with either a teacher or a parent helper, all depends how busy they are. Its all recorded in her reading record.

Speak to school about it, the situation won't get changed unless you pipe up and say something.

Which year is he in Overmydeadbody? DS is in Y3 and reads chapter books now so changes them when he is finished but in the infants he used to change them daily. However it was something that he was supposed to do himself before or after school so I don't know what happened if they didn't do it themselves. You definitely need to talk to the teacher. Ds's teacher or TA heard him read about once a week individually and he also did guided reading in a group once a week and had a library club session once a week where they read in groups and then did activities based on the book. We had a reading diary which we filled in every day after he read to us and the teachers/TAs filled in when they did anything with him.

lol Humphrey. I did mention it, they said "yes we'll send one home", but nothing came. Then DS started taking his own books into school and that was it, no more books home.

Wilbur I tohught maybe DS had to change the book himself, but he said that no, an adult does that, otherwise he would have been bringing books home for sure!

as a teacher i would say not good, ours are changed every day/when finished, but they certainly take a book home every day, with a reading record. BUT i would check first before you go in guns blazing, your dc may be responsible for changing their own book (I'm not sure how old?) and the teacher may have got fed up of nagging!!

Weekly (as posted on other thread)
Pretty sure record is checked because I will ask for him to go up a level and it generally happens, or ask NOT to be given certain ranges of books because he finds them too boring!

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ask for an appointment to see tacher. If no different after couple weeks see the head

MrsBartlet he is in Yr1. Part of me thinks maybe it is because he moved bweyond all the biff and chip books so now they think that because he can read he doesn't need books home? It's not on.

He devours chapter books at home.

I have made an appointment to see the teacher tomorrow. Should I be fuming?

A friend's son is a free reader (.i.e he picks his own books), but they still do it weekly and they still fill in the reading record...

If he is a confident free reader they probably won't change his books but ask him to choose his own. That's what happened to mine anyway

My DD is in Yr 1 and on chapter books too. She brings 3 books home once a week (usually one chapter, one information and one of her free choice), we write in record (nearly) every day and it gets read at school each day too.

DS2 is in Yr R

It was changed daily but now the books are getting a bit longer they are changed twice a week but DS has the chance to bring home a free choice book too(from his current level). We are supposed to hear him read at home at least 5 times a week - the school is very hot on this. They started to push it when DS1 was in Yr 1 and reading ages rose significantly as a result so it is worth it.

We do have a reading record. I do record when DS has read to me and she responds if I leave a comment, usually on the days she hears him read and she has his book out.

DS1 (Yr 4) doesn't have a reading book and I don't hear him read but I do record when he reads at home so he can have his merit for having read every day. He is always reading. He can change his book when he wants but he doesn't bother with school books.