Reading @ Home
Please try to read with your child each day. This could be:
reading using the apps/websites below
reading books at home and rereading books again
reading books or magazines virtually from the Christchurch City Libraries
making your own wee readers and drawing the pictures or making them on a device
completing the daily activity that your child's teacher assigns via Seesaw to help with reading at home.
accessing Te Kura (the information is below).
No device or internet, then try these ideas:
using recipe books to read and cooking or baking
follow instruction to create or draw things e.g. crafts, paper planes
making treasure hunts and using clues
write out sight words (a, I, it, the, was, and, in, my, to, we, in, at, had, of, that, up, but, he, on, then, went, for, is, she, there, when, got, me, so, they, you) in chalk and get your child to find them as you call them
make your own books
make up bingo boards and play sight word bingo as a family
make playdough and make sight words out of playdough
scavenger hunts
read signs and numbers on your daily walk
read a appropriate chapter book to your child
look at the digital posters as they have lots of offline activities
alphabet hunts - find something in the house that starts with each letter
Ideally your child would be reading to you and you reading to them as well. Reading is like a sport and needs to be practised.
