Originally Posted by ndw
Sounds awful and restrictive. If you are worried about more of the same being sent home, and that thought crossed my mind too, then say nothing to the school. Let your DD read the easy book in five minutes and then encourage her to read whatever she wants. Schoolbook read, tick. 30 mins of reading done, tick. 25 mins of that time will actually be useful.
This is what I would do.

And it is what DS's teacher did in 1st grade. District told her all kids should had to read through a set of readers. She knew that her top reader reading group all read WAY beyond those those books. So in their reading group time she gave them the gave them the books and gave them 5 minutes to read it silently. Once they had all finished she moved on to something harder. She followed the rules and got the kids on to something more interesting.