1. Dunbar Unplugs and Reads

2. Too much screen time has been linked to
Irregular sleep
Behavioural problems
Obesity
Impaired academic performance
Violence
Less time for play

3. We know reducing screen time can be a challenge
 ‘Dunbar unplugs and reads’ can help because as a whole school community we will be supporting reading as a regular alternative not a replacement to IT.
Lots of events will take place within the school and community from 3rd October.
Author visits, book swaps,
competitions, storytellers and
lots more!

4. Look out in the Nursery for our Lending Library
Take home a book to share
Find a quiet space and time
Cuddle up
Read a book to your child
Talk about the story
Look at the pictures
Discuss the words
Enjoy

5. Share a book review Create a book review with your child
What did you enjoy about the book?
Who was your favourite character?
Who would enjoy reading this?
What did you learn from your book?

6. Visiting the library All children will have a visit to the library
Children will be encouraged to join
Bookbug sessions: story, song and
rhyme sessions for babies, toddlers,
pre-school children and their families,
Wednesday 9am and 10am

7. Rhyme-time Monday and Fairy-Tale Friday
Recognition of rhyme is a key early literacy skill
Great way to work on early phonics skills- hearing sounds
Improving vocabulary
Helping children learn sequence/ story structure

8. We Need Your Support…..
Children spend 15% of their lives from age three to 16 in school and 85 % with their families, parents and communities
Parental involvement has the greatest effect in the early years
Feinstein and Symons (1999) found that parental interest in their child’s education was the single most powerful predictor of achievement at age 16.

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Did you know that....
A child needs to hear 1000 stories before he or she is able to read independently?
Story Time

10. “Children who are read to three times per week or more do much better in later development than children who are read to less than three times per week.”
(Arnold, R., & Colburn, N. (2004). A script for success. School Library Journal, 50 (9), 39.)
If you read only one bedtime story every night for three years you will have read 1095!

11. “The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.”
(Richard C. Anderson, Elfrieda H. Hiebert, Judith A. Scott, Ian A.G. Wilkinson, Becoming a Nation of Readers: The Report of the Commission on Reading (Champaign-Urbana, IL: Center for the Study of Reading, 1985, p. 23.)

12. Thanks for your support