Reading at home for children and parents.
A love of reading.
We hope all children love to read and want to read.
Here you will find links and magazines to encourage reading and to give ideas as to what is out there to read!
Reading suggestions and reviews The Reading Jacksaw -A website dedicated to feeding hungry readers and creating an appetite for reading through a range of book lists, library and classroom resources, recommendations and reviews.
Read like an author - If you like.... Try ....
Well-known authors provide suggestions as to what to read if you liked their work (see below).
Top tips to encourage reading at home By Tara Parker, Senior Early Years Programme Manager at the National Literacy Trust
Our top Tips...
- MODEL. MODEL. MODEL.
- Provide a distraction-free reading space – make it inviting and quality time with your child. When is your child most likely to engage?
- Set challenges – Can they read so much in a certain time? Can you share the book and compete to do the best voice for a certain character? Can you tally who makes the least mistakes in reading?
- Allow children to read around the text to develop meaning from what else is written down.
- Use word wheels to develop a deeper meaning of newly acquired language.
- Once you have read a chapter/book storyboard, help children summarise what they have read and take away the main points.
- Give them 3 events from the text and ask them to order them.
- Make it fun – if they didn’t like the story, can they rewrite the ending?