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Reading with your child

Steps to reading

• Talking – chatting lots and lots and lots (and

listening too)

• Breaking the code – decoding
• Fluency – punctuation
• Understanding

chatting

• The more words your

child knows and uses in everyday life – the easier reading is.

• Developing vocabulary

including categorising – e.g how many words for fruit does your child know? How many types

• f transport?
• Developing listening skills
• Developing memory –

both listening and visual

Breaking the code

Phonics

• Many words can be

‘sounded out’

• 44 phonemes
• 26 letters – combinations of

the letters make up the rest

• Pure sounds
• Some words are not

phonetic - said, would

• For longer words – syllables
• Beats in a word to split up

the word

Reading fluently and expressively

You are an important role model

Talking in sentences leads to reading in sentences which leads to writing in sentences.

• Making silly voices when there is

talking in a story

• Emphasising some words for effect –

changing your voice as you go

• Use facial expressions and actions
• Read the book to your child before

they have a go. Model how to read a sentence if they get stuck

• Re-read a short book several times

so they can practice this. Or re-read a few sentences.

Understanding

How do you know they understand?

• Asking questions – finding information
• Who, what where, when?
• How do you know that?
• How, why? Inference – clue finding
• What do you think will happen next? –

prediction

• Why do you think? – their opinion
• What does that word mean? Can you find a

word that means….?

• Why do you think that word has been used

there?

• What has just been happening?

Summarising

• If you were that character - how would you

feel/ what would you do? Etc

• Turn the tables - Get your child to make up a

question for you to find from the text

• Only one in three UK parents read to their children

every day, a new survey has found. The reason? Not because we don’t know how vital it is to introduce children to reading, but because we’re too busy and distracted.

So what can I do to help?

• Word games
• Rhyming games
• I spy
• Words starting with the same letter
• A to Z’s of animals etc
• Reading to your child – everything

when out and about, recipes, gardening, on-line, researching

• Keep audio-books in the car to

develop children’s listening skills - or tell a story you know well while you’re driving.

• Audio books from the library
• Join a library
• Make it habit – set time every day
• Before bed as part of winding down
• Have a dictionary and thesaurus at

home for your child ( age appropriate) – and help your child to find out words for themselves

• Invite your child to make up their
• wn story - maybe give them a prop

like a doll or a picture as a jumping

• ff point.
• Video your child telling their story

and play it back to them, or write a story book together all about them.

• Keep reading to them until the end
• f junior school

Practical strategies

5 mistakes on a page – the text is too hard for them to read independently

• Speed reading words – how

many in a minute

• Pause, prompt, praise
• 3 books on the go
• Reading beyond their

ability

• Book sharing

So what can stop your child being successful at reading?

• Hearing?
• Sight?
• Regular opportunity to talk and listen
• number of words they know
• Amount of practice at reading
• Speech and language difficulty
• Memory difficulty – listening, visual, working
• Visual stress
• Dyslexia
• Dyspraxia

“The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.”

• Questions?

Sitting down to read a story with your child is effectively a direct message that says ‘I really like your company, I value you and I want to share time with you’. Zoe Ball