Learning and Teaching 

Tips for Reading with your child

As we begin our next phase of remote learning, it is important for every child to be reading daily. Miss Wilkinson has put together some tips for parents when reading the take home books with their children.

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

During reading:

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.

Please note that the books we have sent home are to be read more than once over the course of the remote learning. Re-reading books that children are familiar with is important as it helps them to make their reading sound fluent.

Deborah Courtney

Director of Teaching and Learning