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

2. 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

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

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