As we move further into the Autumn term, I wanted to send a reminder to everyone about reading as much as possible. We want all children to love reading and feel an important part of this is reading at home and reading books they enjoy.

As a school, we have sent home reading records for the children to record their reading along with a comment. Please remember we would like at least 4 entries a week.

As your child progresses through their reading journey, they will become a free reader. This means they will bring a reading for pleasure book from the school or class library and read these at home. They can do this independently or with you.

Alongside a reading for pleasure book, your child may come home with a floppy phonics book or a banded book (these can be seen on the side of the book and are different colours). If you child has both, please read the reading for pleasure book with them as they may well need help with decoding the text. If your child has a phonics/banded book then please listen to your child read and let them attempt to sound out the words first before helping them. The best way of helping them is to break down words into separate sounds – this process is further explained on our English page here. 

We also send out word lists of vocabulary that we would like your children to learn. These vocabulary lists are to widen children’s knowledge of words and their meanings – they are separate to our spelling lists. You can find all of the vocabulary lists here.(There are tabs at the bottom of the Excel sheet labelled KS1 for yrs1-2 and KS2 for yrs 3-6).

If you have any questions please talk to your child’s class teacher.

Thank you for supporting your child with their reading.