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Reading Parent Workshop 10.10.12 Welcome! Please feel free to look at the books and help yourself to drinks and snacks. “Reading is the single most important thing you can do with your child.” Outcome:- By the end of this session you will:- Have had the opportunity to share favourite books Have an overview of how reading is taught at College House Junior School. Information about our new library service which can be accessed from home! Have an increased understanding of how to support your child. One of you will get a £20 book voucher! Why is reading so important? Links to writing. Good readers are usually good writers. Develops language and vocabulary. Develops imagination and creativity. Reading is about enjoyment. Opens up children’s worlds and enriches their life. Reading is essential in developing a good self image. Marked advantage in education. What is your favourite children's book? Why? My 3 favourites VIDEO How we teach reading at College House Junior School:- • Guided Reading • During English lessons • Reading Targets – show APPHow you can support them at home. (handout) • Homework- reading challenge New library service! Discuss on your table, barriers you encounter when getting your child to read. “Kate finds reading really hard and I don’t want to put her off altogether!” “Reading just doesn’t come easy to him.” “Why do I have to teach him to read, that’s schools job!” Start off by reading to them. Encourage children to read the pictures. Encourage children to start joining in with words. Read a sentence each. Encourage your child to do more of the reading, if they are stuck on a word then just carry on reading. (Come back to the stuck word at the end.) Teach your child the tricky words on the page before it is read. Read pictures. Read to them, then ask questions. “My child can read but just doesn’t want to!” “It’s such a battle getting them to sit down and read!” “They are just not interested in books!” What to do if your child refuses to read?- enjoyment Get the enjoyment back • Look at books that interest them:Picture books/ multi modal books? •Allow children to read and reread the same book more than once. •Let them see you read and enjoying books. •Non Fiction, magazines, comics- what they are interested in. •Listen to audiotapes; read from kindles. •Read to them •Make a deal!!! •Show video- Rosen 5:00 • Mags “Billy just picks out books that are too easy/ hard for him!” Go to the library and choose together. Let them have the easy/ hard book but Choose another one at the appropriate level. “My son can’t seem to find any books that interest him.” Books for boys! (handout) “My child is already a very able reader.” “I hardly ever read with my child because they read before bed.” “My child happily reads to themselves every night.” What if my child is an able reader? Read one page from their book then discuss it, ask your child questions around comprehension:- Retrieving information from text inferring (reading between the lines) Talk about what happened in the previous chapter/ whole book. Encourage independence. Introduce to new vocabulary. (If children come across a word they don’t know they should look it up.) “For books to have optimum level of challenge children need to be able to understand 95% of the words.” Teach inference! How do I teach Inference? What can you infer from this picture? Pamela waltzed through the final of the dance contest and the audience’s cheers brought her to the stage for an encore. “Every step she takes is so perfect and graceful,” Alesha said grudgingly as she watched Pamela danced. What is the word in this text that gives the text a whole different meaning? What inferences can you make regarding Alesha’s feelings towards Pamela? What we would like YOU to do! Government requirements:Years 3 and 4: 1.5 hours per week Years 5 and 6: 30 minutes per day “Children that read with their parents have a MARKED advantage than the rest of the children.” Important to work together! “Reading is the single most important thing you can do with your child.”