We encourage all children to read at home for enjoyment every day You can support reading by:
Reading to and with your child daily.
Helping your child when they need it - explore words they might not understand, relate them to real-world situations.
Ask your child questions about what you have read. Predict what might happen next.
Making reading enjoyable, show your child that you read, talk about books and go to the library together.
Visit the library or use Libby, Epic, or Borrowbox.
Your child will be learning to read using a structured literacy approach. This focuses on the sounds that letters make and how to decode words. Each week your child will bring home a book to read with you. Here are same ways you can help them. You will find more information in your child's literacy book:
Read the sounds with your child (eg ‘m’ words)
Segment/break up words and blend them together e.g. t-a-p, tap.
Learn the non decodable words ‘by heart’ e.g. I, my, the. These words are usually at the back of your child's book and on homework sheets.
Homework revision sheets may also look like these: