Good morning,
Welcome to April. This week’s focus has been Reading with helpful hints on how to support reading and reading for meaning. As we are all at home I have included some helpful hints on how to create a reading environment and continue to foster a love of reading in our own houses.
- Routine: Make reading part of your daily routine. This links in well with our Sound Sleep advice. It could be part for our evening and downtime hour to allow us to switch off in preparation for sleep.
- Read at home: Reading regularly at home promotes a love of reading and supports your child in becoming a great reader. Your children could even read to their siblings, pets and even toys!
- Make a special reading spot: Designating a special reading spot for your child to read with you is not only fun, but is also a great way to create a distraction-free zone where they can concentrate.
- Be a great reading partner: As parents you could read aloud and track the words with your finger as you are reading. Read the story over and over and try using different voices to do this. Ask questions as you are reading. You can find hints on how to do this on yesterday’s reading blog.
- Bring books everywhere: Bring books wherever you go. In the car, on a picnic, in the garden
- Be a positive example: In school we have ERIC time which is everyone reading in class, this includes the teacher. A good way to continue this is by us as parents being caught reading and also during that downtime hour reading our own book as our child reads theirs.
Have a great Wednesday and as always stay safe.
Mrs Docherty
