How to hear your child read OR Supporting your child’s reading development

In today’s meeting we will look at: The range of skills that are involved in learning how to read Questions and activities that can support your child’s development of these skills How to create a wider reading culture Materials from school to support your child’s reading

Do everything you can to ensure that your child enjoys their reading time with you!

Reading skills: DCSF Guidelines AF1 Use a range of strategies including accurate decoding of text, to read for meaning AF2 Understand, describe, select or retrieve information, events or ideas from texts and use quotation and reference to text AF3 Deduce, infer or interpret information, events or ideas from texts AF4 Identify and comment on the structure and organisation of texts, including grammatical and presentational features at text level AF5 Explain and comment on writers' uses of language, including grammatical and literary features at word and sentence level AF6 Identify and comment on writers' purposes and viewpoints and the overall effect of the text on the reader AF7 Relate texts to their social, cultural and historical contexts and literary traditions

Reading Skills: In ‘real’ terms AF 1 for an emerging reader Recognising some key words Being able to blend sounds they know Taking some account of basic punctuation This will progress to Fluency and expression in reading, taking a wide range of punctuation into account Use of a range of strategies to decode unfamiliar words

Reading Skills: In ‘real’ terms In addition to being able to read tackle a range of words with a good level of independence: Be able to infer or deduce facts from the book Explain how we can tell the time or place a book is set in and the impact this has on the text Talk about what the moral, message or purpose of a piece of writing might be Recognise common features of language in different text types

Creating a wider reading culture Choose a wide variety of texts that your child will enjoy: Comics and magazines Online books or educational websites The instructions for toys or games Recipes and menus Shopping lists Road signs and travel timetables Holiday brochures or leaflets

Creating a wider reading culture Share reading with your child Let them see you using and enjoying reading Visit the library / local bookshop Have a special place for ‘books we are reading’ Stick up new, interesting or ‘wow’ words on the fridge door Make reference to what you have been reading together in everyday life

Materials from School Big Cat Phonics reading scheme Year Two ‘free choice’ readers Reading targets Blue reading records Links on the school website