1. Perivale Primary School & Children’s Centre
Early Reading

2. Reading to your Child Perivale Primary School & Children’s Centre
Research shows that children learn to read earlier
and better, when they are read to regularly from
an early age.
Modelling
Enjoyment
Read to them 10 minutes every day
Let them choose books
Make it fun

3. At Perivale General provision Nursery Mobile library Reception
Reading areas/Book corners/tents inside & outside
Storytime daily
Labels/posters/signs/word mats around classroom
Phonic sessions
Nursery
Mobile library
Reception
New books every week-increased amount since Spring term
Guided reading every week
Individual reading as and when

4. Plastic letter games Perivale Primary School & Children’s Centre
Help them recognise letters really fast
Multisensory
Fun
Ideas
Letter sorting
Finding letters
Making words
Matching pairs

5. Direction Children may not know that: The story is in the print
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Direction
Children may not know that:
The story is in the print
We read from left to right
We go down the page
Say:
Where do we start?
Which way do we go?

6. Pointing Perivale Primary School & Children’s Centre
Children need to be able to point to each word as
they read as this helps them:
Match spoken word to print
Notice spaces
Distinguish words from each other
Find the first letter of a word
Say:
Point to each word as you read
Did you run out of words? Try again
Hold their hand if necessary.
NB: When they can do it well, let them stop as it slows them down.

7. Preparing for reading Picture walk Difficult words Read first page
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Preparing for reading
Picture walk
Difficult words
Read first page

8. Prompts Perivale Primary School & Children’s Centre
Things to say when your child gets stuck:
What’s this letter?
Does the picture help?
What could it be?
Try it again and see what
would fit
Where is Spot looking?
NB: If they can’t get it after a few seconds don’t worry, just tell them and move on.

9. Prompts When your child makes a mistake:
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Prompts
When your child makes a mistake:
Let them read on – they might notice the mistake themselves!
If not, go back to it and say:
You said .....Does it look like....?
You said .....Does that make sense?
They will begin to listen to their own reading and correct themselves.

10. Helping your child read at home
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Helping your child read at home

11. Top Tips Perivale Primary School & Children’s Centre
Read your child’s book with them little and often
Read the same book lots of times until they become
fluent at it
Support your child to avoid them feeling stressed. This may mean you reading it to them the first few times.
Make it enjoyable
Praise them

12. Thank you for coming Any questions?
Perivale Primary School & Children’s Centre
Thank you for coming Any questions?