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300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 85vw, 184px\" \/><\/a>A focus on early reading skills has been one of our priorities this year in Nursery. We would like to share a few suggestions to support anyone who feels they would like a little advice when reading to their children.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Find a comfy place to look at a book together ideally with no other distractions.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> \u2022 Encourage your chi<\/strong>l<strong>d to choose their own book to look at with you. Young children love to hear a familiar story again and again. This helps them to process the story and join in with the storytelling.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> \u2022 Show your child how much you enjoy reading through your voice and facial expression.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> \u2022 Talk about who is in the story. Use the clues on the cover of the book to help predict this.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> \u2022 Talk about what they think may happen next in the story, encouraging them to use the picture clues.<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>Use the terms &#8216;author&#8217;, &#8216;title&#8217; and illustrator&#8217; when starting to read a book. These may seem like sophisticated words for a young child but we use them in Nursery when reading a story and your child may well surprise you by knowing what they mean.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> \u2022 Talk about where the story is set &#8211; is it at the farm, in the woods &#8230; ?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> \u2022 Discuss how the characters might feel.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> \u2022 Can your child hold the book the right way up with the front facing him\/her?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> \u2022 Can he\/she turn the pages one at a time?<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>Can he\/she identify a picture and text?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> \u2022 Can he\/she read from left to right and top to bottom?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> \u2022 With support, can he\/she retell a familiar story using the pictures in the book as a prompt?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> \u2022 Create a new ending for your story.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> \u2022 Act out the story with his\/her family, toys or puppets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As well as books you may have at home, there are a range of websites providing online stories. As a starting point you could try these sites.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbookday.com\/\">https:\/\/www.worldbookday.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.topmarks.co.uk\/Interactive.aspx?cat=39\">https:\/\/www.topmarks.co.uk\/Interactive.aspx?cat=39<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cbeebies\/stories\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cbeebies\/stories<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above all, have fun reading together. There are so many wonderful stories out there waiting for us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A focus on early reading skills has been one of our priorities this year in Nursery. We would like to share a few suggestions to support anyone who feels they would like a little advice when reading to their children. \u2022 Find a comfy place to look at a book together ideally with no other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/2020\/05\/12\/early-reading\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Early Reading&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11919],"tags":[235,93,1745,234],"class_list":["post-29356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-2020","tag-confident-individuals","tag-family-learning","tag-literacy-and-english","tag-successful-learners"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29359,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29356\/revisions\/29359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}