1. Parents’ Meeting Reading Workshop
Aims:
To enable parents to better support their children’s reading at home
For our children to enjoy reading and become independent readers

2. Creating a climate for reading
Find a quiet, comfortable place to read
Read aloud to your child
Make sure you it is uninterrupted time
Talk about the book and what is happening – the characters
Ask questions to help them understand the story
Remember little children get tired

3. Ways to practice reading
Pair reading
Echo reading
Reading aloud
Reading silently

4. How you can help Don’t expect your child to know every word.
Let the child:
Hold the book
Point to the words
Look at the pictures for clues
Give the child time to think
Try again
Use their sounds e.g. t r a m
Look at the first sound and think about what would make sense
Don’t expect your child to know every word.
Remember use lots of praise

7. What are High Frequency words?on
his go
dad up to an I
back
him as
mum if
had
can
big
but in
off
the of no
not it at
got
and

8. What are tricky words? the, she, said, when

9. Comprehension In a jungle there lived a big lion. He
was strong. He was the king of the jungle. All the other animals were afraid of him. They would run and hide, when they heard the lion roar.
Questions:
Where did the lion live?
Was the lion strong or weak?
Why were the animals frightened of the lion?

10. Useful Websites

11. Workshops
1. Letters & sounds/actions - blends & Phonic games 2. High Frequency words/Sight words/Tricky words 3. Making sentences