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Helping your child with their reading. Our children as readers:. What Do We Want for Our Children?. To be able to summarise what has been read. To be able to choose what they would like to read for themselves. To read for pleasure. To read with understanding. To read with expression.
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Our children as readers: • What Do We Want for Our Children? To be able to summarise what has been read To be able to choose what they would like to read for themselves To read for pleasure To read with understanding To read with expression To have reasons for preferences in what they read
Changes • Book corners in all classrooms • Improved library area • New fiction books in all classrooms
Children at Bonnygate will experience • Guided reading sessions • Individual reading time with the class teacher and LSA • Opportunities to visit the school library • Opportunities to bring school books to read at home • Daily phonics lessons • Access to Bug Club in school and online at home • Days dedicated to books and reading (Roald Dahl Day, World Book Day)
Levels and Book Bands • All children will be accessed as they enter Bonnygate and put onto the correct book band/level • They will then move thought the books within the book bands at home and in school. • Reception and KS1 – Bug club phonics, Rigby Star Phonics • KS2 – Rigby Star Navigator, Bug Club and Pocket Reads • Other schemes used • Fantastic Forest • Story Street • Wellington Square
10-15 minutes reading at home each day makes a big difference
Top tips • 1. Choose a quiet time • 2. Make reading enjoyable • 3. Maintain the flow • 4. Be positive • 5. Success is the key • 6. Regular practice • 7. Communicate • 8. Talk about the books • 9. Make use of the Library • 10. Variety is important