1. The Dingle Parent Reading Workshop
Do you know why reading is so important?
Is reading at home regular and something you look forward too?
The Dingle Parent Reading Workshop
Tuesday 5th March 2019
Do you know how to improve your child’s understanding of reading?
Do you know how to help your child improve their reading ability?
Are you aware of how reading is taught at school?

2. Why Is Reading Important?
Creating a love of reading in children is potentially one of the most powerful ways of improving academic standards in school.
There can be few better ways to improve pupils chances in school, or beyond in the wider world than to enable them to become truly independent readers.

4. Reading requires two skills
Phonics and Word Recognition
The ability to recognise words presented in and out of context.
The ability to blend letter sounds (phonemes) together to read words.
Understanding
The ability to understand the meaning of the words and sentences in a text.
The ability to understand the ideas, information and themes in a text.
If a child understands what they hear, they will understand the same information when they read.

5. Reading in School The Teaching of Reading
Phonics
Shared reading
Guided reading
Independent reading
Focused reading activities
Reading across the curriculum
Comprehension through videos and drama
Class novels and stories
School readers Home readers

6. Reading in our School The Teaching of Reading
In EYFS and Year 1, children are heard to read individually at least once a week. Children read banded books and when the teacher feels their accuracy and understanding is developed, they will move on to the next band. It is not about rushing through the bands.
Children are taught daily phonics sessions – reading and writing.
From Year 2 upwards, there is much more focus on developing reading comprehension and children understanding the text that they are reading. Children take part in specific focused reading skills sessions at least 3 times each week. From year 2 onwards, most children are not heard to read on a one to one basis.

7. Early Reading Phonemic awareness Phonics – segmenting and blending
Fluency
Vocabulary
Comprehension

8. Reading at home makes a huge difference!
What can you do at home?
Talk to your child
Make reading fun
Read every day – even 5 minutes!
Set an example
Talk about books
Listen to your child read
Show that you value your child’s efforts
Reading at home makes a huge difference!

9. What to do if your child is stuck
Use phonics first. What sound does the word begin with? Can you say the sounds in the word? Blend them together.
Read to the end of the sentence. What would make sense?
What is the text about – what might fit here?
Does it sound right?
Look at the picture. Does it help?

10. How to use these strategies at home
John let his pet frog go. It ******across the grass. What is the first sound? It h***** across the grass. What would make sense? It hopping across the grass. Does that sound right? It hopped across the grass. Use phonics and pictures to help and support.

11. Understanding the text
Being able to read does not mean you understand what you read.
Your child might sound like a good reader but may not necessarily understand what the text means.
The best way to develop understanding is to talk about texts.
Using short videos is a really good way of building up comprehension skills.

12. Comprehension at school
Children from Year 2 upwards take part in 3/4 reading skills sessions each week. Children will spend around a week focusing on part of a text. We will read the text and discuss its language features and vocabulary.
Children will then answer comprehension questions independently on the text based on a different comprehension focus each day.
VIPERS –
Vocabulary
Inference
Prediction
Explaining
Retrieval
Summary

13. Comprehension at school

14. Reading at Home – Enjoy!
Introduce your children to different types of books; classic fiction, chapter books, short stories, joke books, poetry, non-fiction.
Read them the book that was your favourite when you were a child.
Read slowly, with expression. Try to use different and funny voices for characters.
Follow the words and read the story using the pictures.
Talk about what is happening and what might happen next. Leave the story on a cliffhanger!

15. Reading at Home – Enjoy!
Understand it is not a test and it is not a race.
Create a quiet and comfortable reading environment.
Make reading visible; have books available in your home for different purposes.
Talk about books don’t just read them.
Explain the meaning of unknown words.
Ask open ended questions top encourage discussion.
Sit and listen - don’t do chores around the reader!
Use VIPERS skills when watching videos, adverts and TV shows.
Sign reading diaries to say that your child has been reading. Children are rewarded at school for having diaries signed.

16. Understanding (Comprehension)
Finding information on the page.
Discussing word meanings. Find a word which means the same as…
Being able to find information that is not on the page. Looking for clues.
Thinking about situations and predicting what might happen.
Putting yourself in a character’s shoes and understanding what is going on from their viewpoint.
Book talk to make your child think.

17. Closed Questions! Do you like this book? Do you like this character?
It’s a good story isn’t it?
Do you like reading?
Are you good at reading?
Do you like this kind of story?
Change these questions so that the answers cannot be yes or no.
What do you like about this book?
What do you think of this character?
Why do you think this is a good story?
What’s great about reading?
Why are you a good reader?
What is it about these stories that you like so much?

18. Talking about books It is not a test! Do you like this book; why?
Who is your favourite character?
Tell me about a character in the book.
Which words tell you what the character is like?
How would you feel?
What do you think will happen next?
What would you do?
What have you learned about …… in your book?
What can you tell me about…?

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20. Thank You, For Your Continued Support
We hope that this workshop has helped and has given you some supportive and useful information.