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Inspiring Success Reading The Orchard School

Reading

Patience and Practice Understanding & Meaning Resilience- Risk taking Prediction Oracy Success Enjoyment, Engagement

Reading – what children need

Attitudes:

• Confidence
• Resilience- It’s ok to make mistakes and take risks
• Enjoyment
• Motivation!

Skills:

• Phonics
• Tracking
• Memory

Knowledge

• Language and Text
• High Frequency Words
• that “It’s worth it”!

Practice!!

Tips for Year 2 Parents

Talk!

• Ask your child to summarise what they have been

reading- main points, full sentences, not every detail

• Words!- meaning, power, similarities, phonics, rhyme
• Punctuation- what it means, why it is used
• Model expression
• Compare with previous books and authors
• Compare with experiences you have had.
• Laugh and enjoy a book together
• Ask open ended questions

Tips for Year 2 Parents

Questions and Discussion!

• Prediction
• Reasoning
• Evaluation..likes

and dislikes

• Fact vs opinion
• Justification of answers and opinion
• Homework

Tips for Year 2 Parents

Higher Order Thinking Skills

1.What did Goldilocks do in the 3 bears house? (knowledge) 2.Why did Goldilocks like the little bear’s chair? (comprehension)

• 3. In what ways are the three bears like people?

(analysis)

• 4. What do you think Goldilocks could have done to make

friends with the bears? What would you do if she came in to your house? (application)

Tips for Year 2 Parents

• 5. How would the story be different if it were

Goldilocks and the three fish? Make up a story about Goldilocks and the three bad

• beauties. (synthesis)
• 6. Was Goldilocks good or bad? Why do you think that?

(evaluation)

Tips for year 2 parents

Vocabulary to use and explain in talking about words,

sentences, texts, punctuation:

• Noun, noun phrase
• Adjective
• Verb
• Adverb
• Tense- Past, Present
• Apostrophe (Contractions and Possessive)
• Suffix (-ment, -ful, -less, -ly)

Tips for Year 2 Parents

Strategies

• Reading on to the end of a sentence or back

to the beginning

• Look for words within words
• Ask “Does that make sense?”
• Use phonics sometimes- NOT every word!
• Develop and encourage self- correction

Skills and Knowledge

• Reading is fun and useful!
• Common Exception words- (phase 6)
• Phonic knowledge to apply to new words (phase 6)
• Grammar (phase 6)
• Variety of genres and authors
• Use of books to find information
• Inference
• Prediction
• Expression
• Re telling (Summary form)

Tips for Year 2 parents

• Let your child see you read ! Talk about your reading
• Keep it a regular habit- daily or 5X per week at least
• Read together- even if your child is a capable

independent reader

• Read aloud
• Find a comfortable, quiet place- no distraction
• Explain strategies- NOT always phonics!
• Talk about the book…Open Ended questioning

Inference, Prediction

• Ask your child to summarise
• Continue to read TO your child

regularly

Any questions?