Corpus Christi School Newsletter 

Learning and Teaching 

Home readers

As part of homework, all children across Prep-Year 6 should be reading each night. 

  • Prep-Year 2 - average 10-15 minutes
  • Year 3 and 4 - average 15 minutes
  • Year 5 and 6 - average 20 minutes

Your child may bring home a reader from school or for our older children, may use a book from home. 

 

Learning to read is about listening and understanding as well as working out print. Through hearing stories, children are exposed to a rich and wide vocabulary. This helps them build their own vocabulary and improve their understanding when they listen, which is vital as they start to read. Sharing a book with your child allows you to share adventures and experiences in the safe world of the book. It allows you to ask questions, talk about what has happened and decide what you think together. 

 

Tips for reading with younger readers

Before your child starts reading one of the take-home books:

  • Read the title and look at the picture on the cover of the book, ask your child to tell you what the story might be about
  • Look through the book together and talk about the pictures
  • You might use some of the words you see in the text when talking about the book

As your child is reading the book, encourage him/her to look at the picture first and to refer to the picture if they get stuck. 

Please never cover the pictures. Children gain a lot of information from the pictures, which helps them to solve words when reading.

 

Questions to Help Your Child When Reading:

  • What does the word start with?
  • You said … does that look right?
  • What word would make sense?
  • Can you see something in the picture that starts with that letter?
  • Does that sound right?
  • That was a really good try, but read it again and look more closely.

Learning Communities Term Overviews

Each term, the year level teaching teams create an overview of the teaching and learning plan for the term. You can read about what the plans are for your child’s learning community in the Term Overviews below.

Year Prep Community

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L8XoobjDp3xrJ5wpvU7Pj7eBg8EgXdte/view?usp=sharing 

 

Year 1 and 2 Community

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lfg4Iqymo1USxQ6ycYdbzM0F8N93hqo-/view?usp=sharing 

 

Year 3 and 4 Community

https://drive.google.com/file/d/158xfBPAgcTh6Dp6yFJs_V6EbczpawVww/view?usp=sharing 

 

Year 5 and 6 Community

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cVoA6C7SVvbTkXb1X6vQwwRTHucjAqWm/view?usp=sharing 

 

The overviews are also available on the Curriculum Overview page of the Corpus Christi School website.

 

Deborah Courtney

Director of Learning and Teaching