Homework – Spelling lists will go home every week as part of their homework. The rules will be learnt in school and children will test one another using our clued spelling process.

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Reading at home Share - take turns reading. Model reading aloud. Choice – magazines, comics, information books. Find somewhere cosy – make it a special time. Sign reading record at least once a week. Make comments about your child’s reading and how they are progressing i.e. pages read and books completed. Teachers will keep you up to date with progress in their quizzes through the reading record.

Rewards

Reading Journeys

Promote children’s love of reading at St John’s Accurately assess the most suitable books for your child. Children complete a quiz when they finish the book. Every quiz passed is a step on their reading journey (earning prizes). 100% entry to a termly lucky dip draw to win a Kindle Fire. Children may want to read books which are not stored on Accelerated Reader. They will still be rewarded by progressing on their reading journeys.

Children complete an online reading assessment which gives them a book level range. For example: Child A, has a book range of 2.3 – 3.5. They start by reading books at the lower end of that range and progress to the upper end. Teachers will closely monitor how they do in the quizzes to ensure they are selecting the correct level of books.

Looking for books at home… Go to www.arbookfind.co.uk Go to advanced search. Put in the interest level of your child. Select your child’s level range (ATOS). Click search.

You can see a list of suitable AR books. Alternatively you can use the ‘Quick Search’ to see if books are AR and therefore quizzable.

How we teach reading… We are using class novels linked in with our topics to model reading aloud to the class.