Supporting Reading at Home

Reading Together - Creating a positive environment for reading at home. Fantastic opportunity to build relationships with families.

Home Reading is about a reading experience, rather than just hearing a book.

Home reading should not be new or unknown.

Vital that this is followed up - How are teachers ensuring they are monitoring within their programmes?



Vary the reading -  who reads, you do, I do, we do. 5 day cycle
Reading to your child, listening to stories, poem books, song books

TEaching Reading
Strategies from prompting and supporting readers
Comprehension strategies model

Thinking critically about texts - student views, author views and justification.  pg 21 Reading Book
Great to use with proverbs to prompt inference.

Cracking the Code - visual information
using all the visual information available

• Decoding - phonics
• Chunking - prefix, suffix, base word word work, word building grid
• Analogy - rhyme - 

Need to see word in context - using cues around it for self-monitoring




Movie soundtrack - I'm still standing. Video clip with words to read along - add to class music

Follow up Activities
Reading Book templates


To do:
retelling prompt strips
Oral Lang symbols to use in conjunction with Big books
Juxtaposer - putting themselves into a book.

Home Reading/School Reading - PURPOSEFUL, ACKNOWLEDGED AND FOLLOWED UP ON.