HOME READING HINTS:

• Listen to your child read as often as you can
• Find a quiet time to share reading
• Sometimes bedtime is best
• Read to your children

Reading at home should be for fun and it should revise skills. It should not be a chore; reading should not be hard work. Sometimes it is necessary to tell the child the word or read one page to them, rather than create disharmony and lose meaning.

Questions parents could ask their children to support their reading include:

1. Does that make sense?
2. What word might make sense?
3. Can you re-read that to see if it makes sense?
4. Can you read on (read further in the text) to see if you can work out that word?
5. What letter/sound does that word start with?
6. Can you see any little words in that big word?
7. Can you break that word into parts/chunks?
8. Put your finger over the ending of the word. What does it say?
9. Ask them to think of a similar word, maybe tell them a rhyming word.

A GOOD READER BALANCES 5 COMPONENTS:

PHOEMIC AWARENESS, PHONICS WORD ATTACK SKILLS, SIGHT WORDS, FLUENCY AND COMPRHENSION.

REMEMBER AS PARENTS WE MODEL POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE ATTITUDES TO READING. TELL YOUR CHILDREN HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO READ!

Reading Helpers Needed                      

We still need a few more volunteers for our READING INTERVENTION programs. If you have 45 minutes available on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, we would love your help!