Right from the start, the time you spend reading to your children will make books and stories come alive. Don’t forget board-books and bath-books may be their first books.
- Teach your child how to handle books, how to turn the pages
- Share a book together, talk about the story and the pictures
- Children enjoy hearing the same story again as it helps to build confidence. They will eventually recognise words on the page.
When children first start Nursery our aim is for them to develop a love of reading and an interest in books.
- To encourage this, the children can choose a book to take home each week from our home loan library
Older Nursery children are introduced to “Jolly Phonics”. As your child becomes confident with each letter sound, more sounds are added.
- Each child has a letter sound book in their reading folder to work on at home. The children who achieve the most success are those whose parents support this work at home.
In addition to the letter sounds book, these children will take a “story sack” home each week.
- Story sacks are a valuable resource, bringing each book to life with an appropriate non-fiction text and a related game
Children learn by watching and copying you. Words don’t just belong in a book.
- Let them see you enjoying a book, newspaper or magazine, share these or catalogues and comics together
- Point out signs, shop names and labels
- Share in finding TV programmers, telephone numbers etc
- Read labels when you go shopping
- Share in writing and reading shopping lists, birthday invitations and notes to members of the family
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