Dunbar Unplugs and Reads

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

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!

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

“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!

“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.)

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