My child is 6. I have them do 10-20 min of guided reading daily, meaning I sit with them and help where needed. They read mostly on their own though. I started because school was basically not teaching anything and giving half assed explanations why not.
How much do you do? Wondering if I’m an asshole parent 😅
My 4 year old finished the 1000 books before kindergarten program in 1 year. We read almost every day, usually before bed. She started reading at 3 years old. Most nights she reads us a book, we read a picture book to her, and we read a chapter in a chapter book to her. She’s currently reading her first chapter book to us. It’s been a little bit of a struggle so I may change to where she reads a page, I read a page. I will also bring books for her to read when we have activities like gymnastics. We’re usually around 15 minutes early, so she’ll read a book to me while we wait for her class. I’m not going to say that she loves reading and wants to do it all the time, but I try to make it enough of a routine that she doesn’t have meltdowns over it. She’s transitioning to no nap right now so we’ve skipped several nights because she just needs sleep. Our philosophy for school is that they can teach her the standards they need to and we’ll do everything else. She’s been in daycare and preschool/preK since 6 weeks old. They didn’t teach her the letters or sounds or how to read. By the time she was learning that in class, she already had them mastered (a lot of it she learned by herself from different toys/activities, I just would check in to see what she knew).
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My 4 year old finished the 1000 books before kindergarten program in 1 year. We read almost every day, usually before bed. She started reading at 3 years old. Most nights she reads us a book, we read a picture book to her, and we read a chapter in a chapter book to her. She’s currently reading her first chapter book to us. It’s been a little bit of a struggle so I may change to where she reads a page, I read a page. I will also bring books for her to read when we have activities like gymnastics. We’re usually around 15 minutes early, so she’ll read a book to me while we wait for her class. I’m not going to say that she loves reading and wants to do it all the time, but I try to make it enough of a routine that she doesn’t have meltdowns over it. She’s transitioning to no nap right now so we’ve skipped several nights because she just needs sleep. Our philosophy for school is that they can teach her the standards they need to and we’ll do everything else. She’s been in daycare and preschool/preK since 6 weeks old. They didn’t teach her the letters or sounds or how to read. By the time she was learning that in class, she already had them mastered (a lot of it she learned by herself from different toys/activities, I just would check in to see what she knew).