1. Supporting Your Child with Reading
Parents Meeting 4th December 9am
Reading to Learn
Welcome
Years 3, 4, 5 and 6

2. Supporting your Child’s Reading Development
Facts about Reading
Reading is a vital life skill in our society
Reading is not easy to learn or to teach- it is a complex set of skills
Reading is needed for all areas of learning in school
Reading is not just using phonics to decode words
Reading can enrich your life and imagination- not just your knowledge, understanding and vocabulary
Children who can read well have higher self esteem
Reading leads to a natural progression into writing
Life Skill? Imagination? Natural progression into writing?

3. Central to all of it is a love for reading and that starts early
Central to all of it is a love for reading and that starts early. Babies love books!

5. How we teach reading at school
Time to love books (book areas, library, time to read and browse through books, book swap shop)
Through all curriculum areas
Guided reading sessions
Teachers read aloud to children-class text
Power of Reading
DEAR/quiet reading sessions
Games/ resources/ activities
Shared reading and text analysis sessions
Accelerated reading programme
Reading comprehension
Book Week/Author visits/Author Focus
Interventions when necessary

6. How to help your child at home
Video demonstrations
Questions and Comments

7. What can parents do?
With children of all ages there are things parents can do to help ALL children to be the best readers they can be:
* Read to your child
* Listen to story CDs/ MP3s – in the car or at home
* Let your child see you reading for fun and function
* Talk about stories
* Tell your child stories
* Read lots of different types of things- news papers, magazines, recipes, online books, maps, cereal boxes, kindles, print in the environment etc etc etc…..and books!
* Listen to your child read their reading book and return it on time
* Go to the library
* Play the games and use the suggested websites
Talk about what you read, get your children to read to younger/older siblings as an exert

8. Using the internet to support your child’s reading There are many free resources and games on the web….