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R E A D!
We recommend that you read with your child as often as you can. This includes reading books to them as well as listening to them read.
Below are a list of a strategies and questions that you can ask your child during shared reading time at home.
- Before reading a new book, ask the child to look at the cover and title and make predictions about the book.
- Make links to other books with similar themes, characters, authors and illustrators.
- Flick through the book (picture walk).
- Encourage children to use their finger to follow the direction of the text (top to bottom, left to right).
- Identify and discuss the meaning of any unfamiliar words.
- Encourage children to use their phonics skills to decode and blend tricky words.
- Does the word make sense? Read the sentence again.
- Encourage children to use the pictures as clues to read words.
Below are a list of a strategies and questions that you can ask your child during shared reading time at home.
- Before reading a new book, ask the child to look at the cover and title and make predictions about the book.
- Make links to other books with similar themes, characters, authors and illustrators.
- Flick through the book (picture walk).
- Encourage children to use their finger to follow the direction of the text (top to bottom, left to right).
- Identify and discuss the meaning of any unfamiliar words.
- Encourage children to use their phonics skills to decode and blend tricky words.
- Does the word make sense? Read the sentence again.
- Encourage children to use the pictures as clues to read words.