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Helping at Home with Reading
Reading
Learning happens wherever children are, at home, nursery or in their local community. As a parent you are your child’s first and most important teacher. You can help your child take those first vital steps to reading.
Literacy is the key to learning. Your efforts can help your child start school in August with confidence and enable him or her to feel ‘at home with reading’.
It’s good to talk……………….
Take time to:
Answer your child’s questions
Encourage questions
Chat about everyday things
Let them tell you how they feel
Value their opinions
Discuss likes/dislikes
Encourage talk/play with other children
………………….and to listen
Focus on listening by:
Making time for nursery rhymes
Recognising and singing along with familiar T.V jingles and adverts
Identifying various sounds around them
Following simple instructions
It’s good to be Word wise
Point out signs and words when you go shopping together
Draw their attention to names on packets, tins, cereal boxes etc
Help them recognise letters in familiar logos such as McDonald’s and Esso
Play ‘I Spy’ …… identifying by colour, shape and size
Find familiar things which start with the same letter
It’s good to be Book wise
Make story time part of your routine at home
Read favourite or special books time and again
Encourage your child to ‘read’ a picture book to you
Talk about the Title, Cover and Pictures
Point out left to right reading direction
Take them along to join the library
Help them choose books to take home
Lourdes Primary School
150 Berryknowes Road
Glasgow
G52 2DE
Phone: 0141 882 2305
Fax: 0141 891 5926