Top Tips for Reading with your child
- Make reading enjoyable, in a comfortable and quiet environment.
- Show that you enjoy reading too – be a good role model.
- Choose texts that your child will be interested in for example; non- fiction books about topics they are interested in, instructions for games, recipes or comics. Reading does not have to be limited to school books.
- Make reading sessions short but frequent.
- Look at the title, author and illustrator.
- Read the blurb at the back of the book.
- Encourage them to use phonics to build up unknown words.
- Talk about the books to encourage them to think about what they are reading.
- Make sure they are successful at reading – maybe take turns at reading pages to help
- Give them time and support to make corrections when they make mistakes.
