Building a Reading Culture

Celebrating Reading

Congratulation Aiden for achieving 25 nights of reading – Well done.

Congratulations Avelyn and  Mileka for achieving 50 nights of reading – Well done.

Congratulations Aria for achieving 75 nights of reading – Well done.

Come Read with Me

During this time the children are engaging with literature and their peers. It is a time to communicate and connect.

Parents are reading with their children, friends are reading together, children are reading independently and Educators are reading with children – it is a busy time. It is also an important time. This is how we start our day and this is how we establish a culture of positive readers. We allow time for children to read, to engage with books as  it demonstrates how much we value reading.

Shared Text

While the children are enjoying their brain food we read a shared text to the children. Reading a book  extends the children’s experiences through literature, they engage with different characters and settings, they notice the different crafting techniques the authors use (for example Big and Bold, speech bubbles). The children get ideas for their own books that they are writing and importantly the enjoy the time of sharing a book.

Here are some of the titles we enjoy reading together:

It is so important that this reading continues at home, each day.

Reading at Home

Ideas to help with reading at home.

• Read to your child.  If your child is a little tired after a busy day – read the book to your child – pointing to the words. Talk about the picture and what might happen next.
• Read with your child. Read the book together. Pointing to the words and say the words together.
• Your child reads the book independently to you or their big brother or sister or to a teddy bear.
• Re – read the book. Read each sentence at least 3 times, especially if it is a new book. Repetition is the key to some children remembering and building upon their word knowledge.
• Look at the picture for clues for words the children don’t know.
• Say the first sound of the word for words that they don’t know – e.g.   sun  (it begins with a sssss sound)
• There are some words the children just need to remember e.g. the, was (these words are also in their purple books)
• Make reading fun. Take it in turns reading a page. Read in the car.
• Find a time and places when your child enjoys the experience of reading. Get into the routine of reading everyday.
• If your child doesn’t know the word – go back to the beginning of the sentence and reread. Have a go at predicting the word – does it make sense?

The more your read – The more words your child will learn.

Have a lovely evening

Michelle and Paul