Top Tips For Reading with Your Child at Home
As we all know, there is a lot more to reading than just reading! Here are some tips to help during reading sessions with your child at home.
- Read 10 minutes every night with your child.
- Discuss the illustrations. What do they think is going on? Why?
- Predict what may happen. What would be good/bad etc?
- Make up alternative endings.
- Discuss what your child’s likes/dislikes are about the text.
- What did we learn from the story?
- Was there a moral, did it give them any information?
- Was it factual or a fiction story?
- Can you change your voice for all the characters?
- Be guided by your child’s interests- Read your own stories as well as school books.
- Become an explorer- Read fact, fiction, rhymes, poems, and picture books.
- Ask questions about the story.
- Discuss the sequence of events. Can you recall the events?
- Most important keep it short, enjoyable, and fun
