Dear Parents/Carers,

 

Reading with your child has so many benefits; improves vocabulary, develops imagination and creativity, expands knowledge, improves mood and decreases stress levels, as well as the fundamental skill of reading itself.

Shared reading is a great way to develop children’s language and communication and to boost their reading skills. Regular reading routines can offer lots of opportunities for learning during school closures, especially if set literacy tasks are being met with resistance from your child.

Attached are some simple tips for reading at home with your child, sharing a text and discussing it together- developing a host of skills while spending quality time together.

Nursery rhymes, songs and storytelling are all excellent methods of developing communication and language skills.

We hope you find these tips useful and appreciate all the hard work and effort being made by carers and pupils with remote learning- we can’t wait to see you all back at school again.

We will leave you with a quote from Julia Donaldson…