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Home Based Learning

Reading at Home. 

Reading for at least 20 minutes every day is an essential educational task. Making sure your child does this is vital to maintain their reading skills.

Having your child do more reading at home is a wonderful opportunity for you to promote a love of books and to share reading experiences with them.

The following resources will allow you to access plenty of reading materials at home.

Read Write Inc.

Click on the RWI logo to go to our dedicated Read Write Inc page.
​This page explains how to undertake RWI lessons at home.
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Sunshine Readers online.

Student can go online to access reading materials that are matched to the books we regularly send home.
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Supporting Your child's Reading.

How you respond to your child' reading errors has a strong influence on how they feel about reading and the decoding skills they will develop.

Here is support sheet to guide your responses.

It can be downloaded as a printable file to keep as a reminder when listening to your child read.
reading_at_home_1.pdf
File Size: 566 kb
File Type: pdf
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Developing Reading Comprehension skills

ReadTheory is an online reading comprehension development site.
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Your child can join this site for free and after taking a test, to work out their reading level, it provides them with online comprehension tasks.
Click on the logo above to visit the site and register for free.

After reading a text students are asked to answer a series of questions by selecting from a multiple choice list.

Rather than letting your child do this exercise alone consider sitting with them and asking them what their thinking was behind their choice of answers, be they right or wrong.  By doing this you can gain insight into how they engage with texts. Are they guessing answers? Do they actually read the question properly? What sort of questions do they have most difficulties answering, factual or inferential?
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Empowering students to create positive futures through high quality teaching.​