Reading for Pleasure

As well as the ‘learning to read’ book that your child will bring home they will also bring home a book for sharing with you.  This book is SO important. This is how we are going to give them the WILL to read. 

It is vitally important that we foster a love of reading from a young age. To enable us to do this we have our own library in Unit 1 which contains a wide selection of both fiction and non-fiction books. The children will have the opportunity to choose a book from the Unit 1 library every week. This sharing book is a book they have chosen for you to enjoy together.

To enable children to become lifelong readers, it is essential that they are encouraged to read for pleasure. The desire of wanting to read will help with the skill of reading.

Involving the children in the choice of books is also very important and by doing this it will help to encourage them to choose books that interest them. 

We do not expect your child to read their library book independently so please do not try to get your child to do so. Read it to or with them. It is good to talk about the book with your child, you can discuss the pictures and what is happening in the story, predict what might happen next, use different voices for the characters, explore the facts in a non-fiction book but it is also important not to turn the discussion into a test. The main thing is that you have fun!

Please read with your child as often as you can – at least once a day if possible.

Of course this does not mean they only have to read books from school. They can also choose to read an information book, a library book, magazines, comics or internet articles. Please feel free to write what materials they have read (or you have shared) at home in your child’s reading record, we would love to see all the fantastic texts they are reading outside of school.

Changing Books

The children will be given the opportunity to change their Unit 1 library book every Monday.