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Reading

One of the most important forms of home learning is reading. We would like all children to read for at least 20 minutes (to you or to themselves if they are older). Ask them questions about what they've read (italics for more challenging questions):

What happened? (Can you summarise in four sentences? First... Next... Then... Finally...)
Were there any words you didn't know/ you need to clarify? (Encourage children to re-read the sentence with the word in it to try to understand if from the context themselves before telling them what the word means - they can also look at pictures to help with what it means, and think of words they do know that are similar to it).
What characters were there? What were they like? (How do you know this?)
What powerful word/ phrases did the author use? What's the effect of this on the reader?
What's one sentence that stood out to you? What makes it so powerful?
What do you predict will happen next? What clues in the book make you think this will happen?

Reception and KS1 parents: The Oxford Owl website has e-books of the right colour band for your child, so you can make sure they're reading books of the right level: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/ The Collins big cat website also has book banded e-books: https://collins.co.uk/pages/big-cat-ebooks

Other e-books:

https://sooperbooks.com/sooper-books/

Extra Support with Reading:

Take a look at the videos made by our teachers which go through the 6 key reading skills that we teach at School21:

Miss Aladejare Vocab Vera.mp4

Miss Gourley Inference Icarus.mp4

Miss McCartney Predicting Pascal.mp4

Mr. Modini Summarising Sam (1).mp4

Ms Berends Explanation Elizabeth.mp4

Simon Rupert Retriever.mp4

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