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READING AT JOHNSTON C.P. SCHOOL

May 16th 2023

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Thank You!

  1. Thank you to the Friends of the School who have purchased £2,700 of books.

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  • Thank you to everyone who has supported us at Bingo and other events.

With the Friends’ support, we are planning on using the money to replace the chairs in the school.

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“Reading and exposure to words helps kids maximize their language and cognitive capacity.”

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Data from the National Literacy Trust’s annual Literacy Survey, used in the report, showed children and young people’s enjoyment of reading was at an all-time low at the beginning of 2020, with less than half (47.8%) of those aged 8-18

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Home Reading Videos

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Nursery Lending Library

  • Once a week children have the opportunity to choose one book from our classroom lending library and bring it home to share with their parents/carers. They keep and enjoy the book for a week before returning it to class on Friday, which is “Library Day”.

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  • This experience provides parents with a great chance to read new texts to their child and engender a love of reading! Remember:
  • There is no app to replace your lap!

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is a way of teaching children how to read and write. It helps children hear, identify and use different sounds that distinguish one word from another in the English language.

Understanding phonics will also help children know which letters to use when they are writing words.

Phonics involves matching the sounds of spoken English with individual letters or groups of letters. For example, the sound k can be spelled as c, k, ck or ch.

Teaching children to blend the sounds of letters together helps them decode unfamiliar or unknown words by sounding them out. For example, when a child is taught the sounds for the letters t, p, a and s, they can start to build up the words: “tap”, “taps”, “pat”, “pats” and “sat”.

Phonics:

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Reception to Year Three

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Creating a Positive Attitude to Reading

  • Put aside a special time.

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  • Pick a nice quiet place where your child won’t be distracted.

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  • Keep the atmosphere fun and positive.

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  • Give lots of praise!

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It’s All in the Timing!

  • Choose the reading time carefully.

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  • Put aside 15 – 20 minutes daily.

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  • 5 - 10 minutes reading.

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  • 5 – 10 minutes discussing the text.

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Hearing Your Child Read

  • How to deal with new or unknown vocabulary.
  • Reading strategies:
    • Use the pictures for clues.
    • Sound out and blend the letters.
    • Go back and read it again if you don’t understand.
    • Read on to see if you can make sense of the word.
  • Let your child work it out!
  • Repeat as often as necessary!

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What Makes a Good Reader?

  • Decoding the words independently.
  • Self-correction
  • Expression
  • Observing punctuation:
    • Full stops
    • Question marks
    • Exclamation marks Bold Print
    • Bold print

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Comprehension�(Fiction)

  • Comprehension means understanding what you’re reading.
  • As your child reads, discuss:
    • Predictions
    • Opinions
  • After reading, discuss:
    • Feelings
    • Settings
    • Events
    • Characters

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Comprehension�(Fiction) cont’d

  • Make your questions increasingly difficult as your child progresses through the reading scheme.

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  • How do you know that Jane is happy?
    • Jane was feeling happy as she skipped down the street.
    • Jane was smiling as she skipped down the street.
    • Jane skipped down the street.

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Comprehension�(Non-fiction)

  • Discuss the facts.

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  • Discuss the layout.

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  • Use the text features:
    • Contents page
    • Index
    • Glossary

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Let Us Know About Your �Child’s Home Reading!

  • Use the home/school book to record what reading they have done and how well they have done it.

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  • Quality not quantity!

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  • Let us know if you have any problems or need advice.

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  • Bring the reading book and home/school book to school every day.

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Reading for Pleasure

  • Don’t just read school reading scheme books.

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  • Let your child choose their own reading materials.

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  • Let them read it on their own and ask for help

if they want it.

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Fluency is the Key

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How would I support children (aged roughly years 3-6) ?

Fiction

Read out loud, for twenty minutes every night.

Ask you child questions like:

Why do you think… did this? How do you think that… might have felt? Why?

Can you give me a summary of the story so far?....

Vocabulary Building

Use a note book and cut loads of flashcards.

Pick two or three words a night – which they may have difficulty reading, or they do not know what they mean. Build a deck of cards to develop their vocabulary.

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How would I support children (aged roughly years 3-6) ?

Non-Fiction

  • Earlier on, I mentioned the importance of knowledge. To understand non-fiction, it is important that children build their general knowledge.
  • I would avoid using the internet too much. Educational research shows us that children become distracted.

Begin with title.

Focus on linking knowledge.

Focus on Vocabulary.

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Example!

  1. Look at the title. What is this text going to be about? What do you know about the topic? Activate your prior knowledge.
  2. Can you find three facts from the text?
  3. Why was… such an important event?