Reading at St Peter Chanel

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How can you support your child to read? Read to your child This is just as important as listening to your child read. By reading to your child you model many important strategies including how to be fluent, how to use expression and how to correctly read punctuation. Inspire, challenge and empower: so through Christ we can make a difference.

Fluency Fluency is crucial for children’s reading because if a child is not fluent in word reading, they will find it difficult to comprehend what they have read. Inspire, challenge and empower: so through Christ we can make a difference.

Unfamiliar Words If your child comes across an unknown word, give them the opportunity to work out the word by encouraging them to use their phonics sounds to sound out the word. Ask them if they can see any words within that word that they already know. Help them to break the word down into sections by concentrating on part of the word at a time and covering the rest of the word. If your child misreads a word, ask them why the word they read can’t right e.g. reading ‘park’ as ‘pank’ Why can’t that word be ‘pank’? They should identify that ‘park’ does not have an ‘n’ in, if they don’t point this out for them. Praise your child if they self correct a misread word and ask them how they knew to correct the word they misread. Inspire, challenge and empower: so through Christ we can make a difference.

Different Genres Predominantly we read fiction books but it is equally as important for children to read non-fiction, plays and poetry too. Inspire, challenge and empower: so through Christ we can make a difference.

Question Talk to your child about what they have read as this will help them to comprehend what has happened in the book. Inspire, challenge and empower: so through Christ we can make a difference.