Home Reading

We are so excited to have started our Take Home Reading Program this week! Take Home Readers are an opportunity for students to reinforce concepts learnt within their classroom at home and further develop their reading skills. At NPS, we suggest students read their Take Home Books either independently or with an adult for 10 – 20 minutes per night. For students taking home short reads, we recommend reading these texts multiple times as it consolidates letter-sound knowledge and supports developing fluency.

You can support your child’s reading at home by encouraging them to point to each word as they read, blend through the sounds in a word and recall their knowledge of sounds and letters. Reading should be a positive experience filled with praise and encouragement. To support your child when they make an error, prompt them to reflect on whether what they read makes sense and encourage them to self-correct.

For students who are fluent readers, making meaning of what they have read is the ultimate goal. You can support your child’s comprehension at home by prompting them to:

• Make predictions before, during and after reading and confirm or disconfirm predictions made 
• Recall key details from the text
• Summarise a story
• Make inferences, i.e. character thoughts and feelings, message of the story
• Ask thoughtful questions before, during and after reading and reflect on the answers
• Making personal connections to the book
• Making connections between the book and another text
• Making connections between the book and the world

Reading picture story books and short novels to your child is a wonderful way for you to enjoy books together and foster a love of reading. This is also an opportunity to model what fluent reading sounds like by using expression, intonation and pace. Additionally, you can build comprehension skills by using the prompts above.

Happy Reading!