The Lakes South Morang College Newsletter CURRICULUM
HELPING YOUR CHILD READ
Part One: Reading together
Reading together is a valuable thing to do. Reading increases your child ’ s vocabulary, expands your child ’ s understanding of the world, and gives them confidence when using language. Reading helps children make the connection between written words and spoken words. This demonstrates the explicit link between reading, writing, speaking and listening.
Some helpful hints to help your child to read:
Talking is important in building a range of vocabulary, and confidence with varied sentence structures. These are essential to be successful in reading and writing. Reading can be hard work, and your child needs to be praised often. Encourage your child to choose books, magazines, catalogues and online texts according to their interests. Share wordless picture books to develop imagination, ideas and vocabulary by naming and describing things in pictures.
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Look for rhyme, rhythm or repetition in books. This will help your child experience some fun with language. Point out important features about a book – for example, the words and pictures, the front cover, the spine, the contents page, or the title. When reading to your child, read stories with expression, or try putting on the voices of characters.
Encourage your child to take over some or all of the reading if they feel confident. If your child is confident with their reading, allow them to read without interruption. Fluency is gained with confidence.
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Give your child the opportunity to re - read books.
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Explore words using a dictionary.
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