1. Reading in Key Stage 2 Wednesday 18th January,2017
The Bellbird Primary School

2. Aims
To provide an overview of how the reading books in key stage 2 are now organised.
To explain how reading is assessed and taught in Key stage 2
To give some guidance on encouraging children to read at home.

3. “Understanding reading is not rocket science: it is much harder than that!”

4. - - + + Good language comprehension, poor word recognition
Good word recognition, good language comprehension
Word recognition - +
Poor word recognition, poor language comprehension
Good word recognition, poor language comprehension -
Language comprehension

5. The Reading Curriculum includes;
Independent Reading – easy text, 95%-100% accuracy.
Guided Reading – instructional text, 90%-94% accuracy.
Shared Reading – a hard text, %-89% accuracy
The Reading Curriculum includes;
shared reading
guided reading
regular independent reading
- individual
- group and paired
home/school reading
hearing books read aloud on a regular basis
selecting their own choice of texts
reading whole texts and on screen
making close links between reading and writing
reading in other subject areas
All of these are essential because they offer different opportunities to develop fluent, enthusiastic and critical readers. 5

6. Michael Rosen
“Parents must remember it is not their job to teach kids to read, it is to encourage them to love books.”

7. Book Bands – Enjoy the journey

8. All reading should be enjoyable and successful

9. Practice + stamina + enthusiastic adults = a successful reader

10. Reading Aloud – Never Stop!

11. What is reading comprehension?
Making meaning from texts
Making meaning from texts

12. “To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
So, what’s it all about?
“To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
Edmund Burke

13. What are effective readers able to do?

14. Effective readers can:
Read quickly
Guess difficult words
Look for clues
Predict
Adapt the way they read for the task
Draw on previous knowledge
Pick up on hidden and not so hidden messages
Create mental images 11

15. How Can Parents Support children’s Reading at Home?
Look for clues in illustrations.
If the meaning is unclear, encourage your child to go back and reread a piece of text.
Encourage your child to visualise the story as they read it.
Check vocabulary

16. How Can Parents Support Children’s Reading at Home?
Predict what will happen next.
Practise retelling parts of a story.
Discuss responses to the book.
Visit the library and compare your book choices.
Be excited about books.

17. How Can Parents Support Children’s Reading at Home?
Magazines
Newspapers
E-books
Non-fiction
Poetry
Fiction – including picture books.

18. How Can Parents Support Children’s Reading at Home?
Encourage your child to look after school books.
Write in the school reading record.
Talk to the teacher.

19. How Can Parents Support Children’s Reading at Home?
After reading some chapters or the whole book discuss:
Likes
Dislikes
Questions/puzzles
Connections

20. Useful Websites

21. Useful Websites

22. The National Literacy Trust www.wordsforlife.org.uk

23. English Updates
The Norfolk Children’s book shop& talk for parents – Thursday 15th June from 6.30 pm
World Book Day – 2nd March 2017
Heffers bookshop – Wednesday 8th March from 2.30 pm
Readathon

25. Can you help?

26. Any Questions?