Interesting words, phrases or sentences.

The most important thing you can do is read to your child. Let them hear you read, listen to unfamiliar words and talk about them together. You’ll be opening a whole new world for them and helping them to become better speaker, readers and writers! Not bad for 10 minutes a night of cosy parent child time!

To help children develop their love of books, understanding and inference talking about words, phrases or punctuation is really important. They no longer have to read, we can read to them and enjoy the book together - thinking like an author.

What's Roald Dahl done that's not that good? Can you think of some other words together that would be better than just ‘said’?

Read together and decide what words are really good. Scrumple – what does it mean. Commanded – why’s it good?

What great short sentences to show that something dramatic has happened and show how Zoe is feeling.

What words or sentences do you like or want to find the meaning of on here? Why have they used a question?

What’s a monotone? Find out together – look it up in a dictionary/google. Use it lots when you can – they’ll love hearing and using new words. What does tedious and mourners mean?