ideas for supporting children at...
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Ideas for supporting children at home with reading
• Children love to share books with each other and with you. • Retell using drama/role play.• Take trips to the library to choose books.• Plays are great ways of interacting through a book as
each person can play a different character.• Share comics/magazines and so on – it doesn’t
always have to be a book!• Look for and share books on topics that you know
your child is interested in – e.g. insects, cookery or sport.• Revisit familiar books• Share the reading! • Take turns to read a sentence or a page each• Agree with your child that you will read
each sentence and they will read the final word.• Get your child to read the parts for certain
characters, or speech bubbles/labels etc and you read the rest of the text• Be explicit about how you work out unfamiliar words• Lots of praise – try not to overcorrect• Questioning and talking about words in the
environment• Pointing out print in the environment such as
Morrison’s, Tesco’s etc• Help with the shopping – e.g. I need a tin of beans,
can you find them for me?• Make your own books about topics your child is
interested in