1. Parent Reading Workshop
How to be a good reading partner at home.

2. WORKSHOP AIMS:
To understand your child’s reading experience in Whitehall Primary
To understand your child’s end of year reading expectations
To understand the elements of reading:
Decoding (How to read words)
Comprehension (Reading for meaning)
Develop vocabulary
To ask questions, discuss and enjoy!

3. National Curriculum 2014
Skilled word reading involves both the speedy working out of the pronunciation of unfamiliar printed words (decoding) and the speedy recognition of familiar printed words.
Good comprehension draws from linguistic knowledge (in particular of vocabulary and grammar) and on knowledge of the world. All pupils must be encouraged to read widely across both fiction and non-fiction to develop their knowledge of themselves and the world in which they live, to establish an appreciation and love of reading, and to gain knowledge across the curriculum.

4. Whitehall’s Reading Diet
Children working individually, in groups or as a whole class to use and apply their reading skills to complete a range of tasks
Children working with self-selected material including familiar text
Children working in small groups with text selected by teacher so they can apply their reading strategies
Children working with challenging text and the teacher models reading strategies
Reading across the curriculum
Personal Reading
Guided Reading
Shared Reading

5. End of Year Expectations
See handout

6. KTC – Knowledge Transfer Centre
ESSENTIAL READING STRATEGIES (see handout)

7. Video
Becoming a more confident reader
Things you can do at home

8. Your time to have a go!
Task 1 – Reading strategies
Task 2 – Questions you can ask your child
Work with a partner!

9. Our vision:
Competent readers develop knowledge, a repertoire of strategies, and awareness that enable them to:
Decode
Construct meaning effectively
3 Think critically as readers

10. Reading assessment is ongoing:
Guided Reading
PM Benchmarking
Reading Tests
Parent feedback & targets
(reading record books)
Year 1 Phonics Screening Check
Year 2 SATs
Year 3 Teacher Assessments

11. Make reading FUN! VISIT THE LIBRARY! Books – Fiction & Non Fiction
Magazines
Newspapers
Websites
Comics
Poetry
Jokes
Signs around us
VISIT THE LIBRARY!

12. Questions