Reading

CURRICULUM FOCUS

This week in Reading, we are learning to use reading strategies to help us read. 

VOCABULARY

Reading Strategies - techniques we use during reading to help support decoding and comprehension. 

Decoding - seeing written words on a page and reading them out loud. 

Comprehension - understanding what you have read.

ACTIVITIES YOU CAN DO AT HOME TO SUPPORT YOUR CHILD'S LEARNING

Ask your child to tell you a range of reading strategies they have learnt about and/or used to support their reading so far this year at school. 

Some of the reading strategies they may talk about are:

-1:1 - reading one oral word for each written word on the page and touching each word as you say them.

-Pattern - recognising the same word pattern on each page and using it to read each page. Eg: I see a cat. I see a ball. I see a box.

-Initial Sound - saying the first sound of an unknown word out loud and scanning the pictures to see if anything in the picture begins with this sound/letter.

-Sliding Through (Segmenting & Blending) - saying each sound in the word out loud and then blending those sounds together to read the word. 

-Chunking - using known digraphs and blends to segment/blend and read unknown words. Eg: chop shot drink

Ask your child to tell you what their current reading goal is. Support your child to read their books from their satchel utilising this reading goal to solve unknown words to understand the text as they read.