How to hear your child read Supporting your child ’ s reading development

1. How to hear your child read Supporting your child’s reading development

2. Think about: • The range of skills that are involved in learning how to read • Questions and activities that can support your child’s development of these skills • How to create a wider reading culture • Materials from school to support your child’s reading

3. Do everything you can to ensure that your child enjoys their reading time with you!

4. Reading skills: Assessment Guidelines • AF1 Use a range of strategies including accurate decoding of text, to read for meaning • 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

5. Reading Skills:In ‘real’ terms • AF 1 for an emerging reader • Recognising some key words • Being able to blend sounds they know • Taking some account of basic punctuation • This will progress to • Fluency and expression in reading, taking a wide range of punctuation into account • Use of a range of strategies to decode unfamiliar words

6. Reading Skills:In ‘real’ terms • In addition to being able to read tackle a range of words with a good level of independence: • Be able to infer or deduce facts from the book • Explain how we can tell the time or place a book is set in and the impact this has on the text • Talk about what the moral, message or purpose of a piece of writing might be • Recognise common features of language in different text types

7. Creating a wider reading culture • Choose a wide variety of texts that your child will enjoy: • Comics and magazines • Online books or educational websites • The instructions for toys or games • Recipes and menus • Shopping lists • Road signs and travel timetables • Holiday brochures or leaflets

8. Creating a wider reading culture • Share reading with your child • Let them see you using and enjoying reading • Visit the library / local bookshop • Have a special place for ‘books we are reading’ • Stick up new, interesting or ‘wow’ words on the fridge door • Make reference to what you have been reading together in everyday life