Students must learn to read fluently with enjoyment and confidence if they are to make progress in their education, in their career and in life in general.
The skill of reading is a passport to future work and leisure.
How can parents help?
- Make time each day to listen to your daughter read. 10 minutes each day is a good start.
- To start with choose something which your daughter will find easy.
- Encourage your daughter and praise their progress.
- Don’t be too serious. Try to make it interesting.
- If your daughter finds a word difficult, try to get her to break the word up bit by bit, to look at the other words in the sentence then make a guess.
- Never let your daughter become completely stuck. If she really hesitates, pronounce the letters or words for her.
- Move on to more advanced books when you feel the time is right.
- Encourage your daughter to use software programmes in school which support reading.
- Encourage your daughter to talk about what she has read.
- Encourage your daughter to learn a number of spellings each week. The teachers will be giving her lists of key words to learn.
- Read newspapers together and share any articles which may be of interest to your daughter.
- The school library is open throughout the week. There are books to suit all students and new books are regularly added. Encourage your daughter to borrow at least one book every week.
