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Reading with your child at home
What can your child learn to read?
Story books
Information books
Poetry books
Rhyme books
Newspapers
Recipes
Signs and labels in the environment
Comics
By talking and reading with your child, you will be doing a great deal to develop their reading skills. You can support your child to develop these important skills by:
Matching: when we read, part of what we do involves matching. Children learn to match shapes, patterns, letters and, finally, words.
Rhyming: research shows that children who understand about rhyming words have a head start in learning to read and, even more, to spell.
Letter skills: as well as recognising letter shapes, learning the most common sounds that each line and which direction to go in.
Motor skills: practising writing letters and words as they learn to read them will help it all to sink in, so a good pencil grip and control is useful.
Concepts of print: this is all about knowing how to handle books—holding them the right way up, turning the pages in sequence, exploring the pictures, knowing that the words can be read to tell a story.
Language skills: the more experience children have of language, the more easily they will learn to read. Your child needs to hear and join in with conversations (with adults and children), and listen to stories and poetry of all sorts.
Questions to ask your child when reading with them at home
Who? Who is in the book? What are the characters names and what are they like?
What? What is happening in the picture? How do you know? What do you think will happen next?
When? When did a certain event take place in the story?
Why? Why did a character behave in a certain way? Why did the event take place? Why did the book end in the way it did?
Where? Where is the story set? Is it in a school. garden etc? Can you describe where it is?
How? How would you like the story to end? How was a particular character feeling?
Suggested websites:
The following links provide information for parents/carers:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/the-alphablocks-guide-to-phonics https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qhslb/alphablocks-series-1-1-alphablocks-az
The following websites have games and activities to support your child with their phonics and reading:
Letters and Sounds
Phonics Play
Teach Your Monster To Read