Guided reading year5 do they do it?

[mebaasmum]

Ds2 age 9 says he hasnt done any guided reading since Christmas. Is it normal to still be doing guided reading at the top end of juniors or not. We have parents evening coming up and I want to be sure before I start complaining!
Thanks

you mean as opposed to free readers?
chose what you like?

dd choses her own books, i think theyprobably all do in year 5.

At our school dd age ten does it with more complex texts eg a Michael Morpurgo book this term. They are read a bit, read a bit to each other plus discuss comprehension. They still do it in ability groups.

They have all been free readers for some time as far as the books they bring home are concerned.

and they do group reading, to the teacher, i spose that is guided ?

Hi , By guided reading I mean reading in groups with the teacher and going through the text for comprehension. He has been a free reader since year1

of coruse,

oh, in that case dd still does.

does he not do any guided reading at all now?
or perhaps with TA?
have they been particularly busy?

Before Xmas he reckons they did it everyweek and knows which group he was in but insists there has been nothing since. Plenty of silent reading. I am just a bit concerned as he reads well but his comprehension isnt that good. I guess its on the list of what to talk to the teacher about!

At my DDs prep they become 'free readers' sometime in Year 2 but have one session a week guided reading in groups up to and including Year 5 (I go in and help with the Years 4 and 5 sometimes). They work their way through a set list of books (fiction, non-fiction, plays, poems etc). At some stage in Year 5 they reach the end of the list and start reading longer books together. I think it all stops in Year 6 and they do plays etc instead.

To be honest I'm glad they do this and I also wish they continued sending them home with set reading texts for a bit longer than Year 2. My two DDs are apt to choose a ridiculously easy reading book one week and a ridiculously hard one the next.

Yes, he should still be doing guided reading, though schools will do it in different ways.

Guided reading may be used within the English lesson, or as part of reading time. At my last school, where I was Deputy, each child would take part in a guided reading session once a week, which would be led by an adult. This worked wonderfully within the morning reading session and our reading results across the school improved greatly within just one year!

I suggest that when you go to the parent's meeting, just ask the teacher how they organise their guided reading sessions. If they do it within English lessons, they may not have done it since Christmas because they haven't been focusing specifically on reading comprehension this term.

Thanks, that is helpful