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How to DEVELOP YOUR CHILD’S READING

How to DEVELOP YOUR CHILD’S READING. What Can You Do to Help Your Child?. Be a great role model: Let them catch you reading Let your children see that you get pleasure from reading Share your favourite books /reading material with them Show them the value of being able to read

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How to DEVELOP YOUR CHILD’S READING

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  1. How to DEVELOP YOUR CHILD’S READING

  2. What Can You Do to Help Your Child? Be a great role model: • Let them catch you reading • Let your children see that you get pleasure from reading • Share your favourite books /reading material with them • Show them the value of being able to read • Do the Bedtime Story every night!

  3. What Can You Do to Help Your Child? • Make the experience pleasurable • Find a comfortable place • Give plenty of time • Avoid interruptions (no TV; siblings (unless purposeful choice); cooking dinneretc) • Keep the time positive • Stay clear of ‘competition’ and comparisons with the ability of others ‘

  4. What Can You Do to Help Your Child? Provide a wide range of reading material A school reading book is only one part of a child’s reading repertoire • Books (picture books; short stories; chapter books); magazines; comics; annuals; membership handbooks • Information books; brochures; catalogues; flyers; newspapers; guide-books • Websites ; take-away menus; instructions; • Visit the library and or bookshop

  5. What Can You Do to Help Your Child? Recommended Websites: www.booksforkeeps.co.uk www.cool-reads.co.uk www.ukchildrensbooks.co.uk www.booktrusted.com www.redhouse.co.uk www.lovereading4schools.co.uk

  6. What Can You Do to Help Your Child? Recommended Books: Who next?: A Guide to Children’s Authors Book Trust: Best Book Guide Waterstone’s: Guide to Kid’s Books 70 Tried and Tested: Great Books to Read Aloud

  7. How Do We Teach Reading At School?

  8. How Do We Teach Reading At School? Making meaning from text Decoding print What is reading?

  9. How Do We Teach Reading At School?

  10. Think about why the writer has used certain features e.g. layout and words Make predictions or give opinions, then decide if we are right Decide whether we think it is a good book or not Work out the main characters and the main themes Think of questions that we want to find out the answers to What do we do when we read? Compare the book to others that we have read Try to understand what the author’s message is Decide whether we agree with what characters do, or how our lives are the same or different to theirs

  11. Assessing Reading At School We use the following assessment focusses How Do We Teach Reading At School? AF1 Use a range of strategies including accurate decoding of text, to read for meaning (until NC Level 3, then not assessed) AF2 Understand, describe, select or retrieve information, events or ideas from texts and use quotation and reference to text AF3 Deduce, infer or interpret information, events or ideas from texts AF4 Identify and comment on the structure and organisation of texts, including grammatical and presentational features at text level AF5 Explain and comment on writers' uses of language, including grammatical and literary features at word and sentence level AF6 Identify and comment on writers' purposes and viewpoints and the overall effect of the text on the reader AF7 Relate texts to their social, cultural and historical contexts and literary traditions

  12. Setting Targets Each child is given a target with which to develop their reading. It may be that they have to find a new author. Practise their fluency. Look up new words that they meet. Read a range of genres

  13. How to DEVELOP YOUR CHILD’S READING Enjoy reading with and to your child all the way through primary school! You will make a huge impact on their success at school by encouraging your child to read every day.

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