Reading

Reading  

In Term Four, we will delve deeper into building our comprehension and fluency skills through the CAFE reading approach. Our CAFE Comprehension focus surrounds the strategy ‘Back up and Re-read'. Students will monitor their understanding of the text by asking if it makes sense, and if it does not to go back and re-read the word, sentence or paragraph to support comprehension. To support their comprehension further, they will deepen their skills surrounding reading fluency through focusing on the punctuation in the text, such as looking for full stops, exclamation marks and question marks, practising to pause or stop at these cues. Through exploring rich mentor texts, such as ‘Oi Frog!’, ‘Hairy Maclary’, English nursery rhymes and the author Dr Seuss they will also deepen their understanding of rhythm and rhyme within our poetry unit.

To support your child at home:  

• Play rhyming games with your child. For example, “I spy, something that rhymes with …”
• When reading, encourage your child to stop at a full stop, change their voice for a question and exclamation mark and change their voice to show when a character is speaking. 
• Check in with your child after reading the text – Do they remember what happened? Did they get all words correct (they may need to re-read once they know the words)