Our favourite part of the day is when we listen to a story together. This helps children learn lots of reading skills which develop as as they learn to rhyme, clap syllables, retell a story using picture clues, recognise and use sounds and read words.
In our big learning each week we will also focus on being successful readers. We are all working at individual reading targets. Here are some ways that you can support this learning at home.
To be really successful I can:
- hold the book the right way (Mrs Fowler always tries to trick us by holding the book upside down!)
- turn the pages of the book – one page at a time!
- retell the story in my own words using the picture clues
- point to the title, the picture and the author
- understand that I read from left to right
- point to the words as I read them and find words and sounds when I am asked
- match a spoken word to one in print
- recognise some sight words
A really good game to play with your books at home is ‘retelling’ the story (whether you have a wordless book or one with words). Have fun as your child thinks about what happens at the beginning, middle and end of the story. Take turns to say a sentence each to make up the story. when one person is finished a sentence then the other person says what happens next until the story is finished.
Have fun with books – love them! Read, Read, Read š
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