Reading
Learning to read confidently and fluently is vital to your child's learning and academic progress.
Our Little Wandle reading system is perfect for developing confident readers. Please ensure you listen to your child read for 5 minutes every day, celebrate their fantastic reading and complete an entry in their reading record.
Your child will also have sounds and tricky words to practise that they will bring home. Please spend time with your child daily practising these too. Be as creative as you like, you could attach the sounds or words to your cupboards or doors at home and ask your child to say them whenever they open it. Or maybe you could hide them around a room once your child is asleep for them to find and say in the morning?
Their are also some excellent websites for children to practise their phonics/reading through games. See the links below:
Make a prediction – Look at the front cover. What do you think this book will be about? What do you think will happen next?
Clarify – Are there any words that you haven’t heard before? What do you think they mean? Can we think of another word that means the same thing? Should we find a picture of one?
Questioning – Why did they say that? What might they be feeling? How do you know?
Summarise – What has just happened on this page/in this story? What has happened so far? Retell the story in your own words or draw/talk about your favourite part of the story.