Early Reading

We have been feeling very grown up in Reception lately as we are now taking home reading books to share with our important adults! The children have loved selecting their own books and feel more inspired to read if they have had a choice of what book to take home.

We have met our Oxford Reading Tree family, Mum, Dad, Chip, Biff, Kipper and Floppy. Not only do the children love these characters, parents are enjoying feeling nostalgic as many of them remember reading the books themselves when they were young!

Sharing your child’s reading book with them is one of the most important things you can do at home to help their progress in Literacy. To ensure that you and your child make the most of this special shared reading time together, the following tips might help:

• Talk about the pictures. Look at the front cover. Who/What can they see? What does your child think the book is going to be about?
• What sounds does your child know? Can they see any of the sounds they know in the text? Point to them together and make the sound.
• Sound out each word together by pointing to the letter and making the sound. Can your child hear the word when sounded out?
• When you finish the book, review it together. Was it about what your child thought it was about? Can you make up a different ending together?

But most of all have fun sharing the book together! We would love to hear how you get on.

Happy Reading!