Reading at Home

Below are some ideas you can use at home to complete your child’s daily 10 minutes of reading. More specific tips, such as useful prompting
questions, will be posted once we introduce the various reading strategies in class. These ideas are designed to be fun and promote your child’s
love for reading!

Find a special reading
buddy (a toy of your
choice). Tell your reading
buddy what you read
about.
Create your own Retell part of the story to Stop reading half way Act it out – perform the
dictionary. What new someone using a different, through the book and storyline with the help of
words have you read? exciting voice. create your own ending. your toys.
Write the new words in a Use your imagination!
scrapbook. Draw a picture
to accompany the new
words.

Voice record your child
reading and play it back to
them. They love hearing
their own voice! This will
also help with their
reading fluency.
Get a cheap magnifying Create a special, cozy
glass and be a detective! ‘reading place’ for your
Find something child. Make sure their
interesting. reading place is quiet and
distraction free.
What is the book about? Use the “your turn, their
Stop reading after a few turn” strategy. Read one
pages and research the page to your child, and they
topic together. Create an read one page to you. This is
information poster! a particularly good strategy
for reluctant readers. It also
allows them
to model
your
intonation.

It would also be beneficial to check the weekly highlights on the blog. You may be able to link your child’s reading with our current learning.
Over the past few weeks, we have been learning about verbs and how to write correct sentences. The following are two ideas:

• Write down all of the verbs on the page. How many verbs are there?
• Does each sentence start with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark? Check!