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Capel St Mary CEVC Primary School
With faith as small as a mustard seed, you can move mountains. - Matthew 13 verses 31 - 35
Early Reading
Reading practice book
This book has been carefully matched to your child’s current reading level. If your child is reading it with little help, please don’t worry that it’s too easy – your child needs to develop fluency and confidence in reading.
Listen to them read the book. Remember to give them lots of praise – celebrate their success! If they can’t read a word, read it to them. After they have finished, talk about the book together.
Changing Reading Books:
Reading books will be changed every Monday.
•The children apply their phonic knowledge to reading a decodable book.
•Books are carefully matched to children’s secure phonic knowledge.
•They read the same book three times in a week.
•The first time we work on decoding (sounding out) the words.
•The second time we work on prosody which is reading with expression – making the book sound more interesting with our ‘storyteller voice’ or our ‘David Attenborough’ voice.
•The third time we look at comprehension – understanding the text.
•We read the books three times at school because we want to develop the fluency. The more children see words, the more they begin to read them automatically without having to sound them out, which is the ultimate goal.
•Children’s book will then be sent home, so that they can practise their fluency further.
•We assess your child every six weeks to check progress.
•Any child who needs extra support has Daily Keep-up sessions planned for them.
•You will have noticed that your child’s books become more challenging as they secure more phonics.
•Once your child is reading a Phase 3 book, we encourage them to ‘blend in their heads’ – you will remember that this is one of the strategies we use to help develop children to become fluent readers. (Blending in your head means children say the sounds quietly in their heads and then read the whole word out loud. Eventually, this will become automatic and children can read words that they know fluently.)
•We will always communicate with you if we feel that your child is not blending accurately enough yet and needs additional support.
•As already mentioned, your child will bring home their phonics book, matched to their reading ability, which they will have already read in school.
•The purpose of this book is to practise their fluency.
•Children shouldn’t find reading their phonics book hard! We want them to bring a book home that they can read mostly fluently.
•If your child is finding a word hard to read, encourage them to sound and blend.