We are trying to promote Reading & Understanding and in order to do this we need your support when you listen to your child read at home.

We aim to achieve this by using thorough questioning to ensure the book they read they understand and can recall information from, rather than just being able to read the words alone.

Please use these questions with your child:

Predict: What do you  think this book/ chapter will be about?

Clarify: Which words did you not quite understand? Can you read around the word to  work out what it means? What do you already know that could help you figure out what it means? How does checking words help you understand the story better?

Question: Why is this important? What would you do if you was the character? What do you think about this chapter? How do you feel about the characters? Has what you have read changed your opinion of any of the characters? How did that page/ chapter make you feel? What does the author do to make you think or feel this way? Has this changed your opinion of anything, if so what?

Summarise: What are the key parts of what you just read? Was your prediction correct? Use some of these sentence starters to help:

This page was about...

The main points were...

The moral of the story is...

The author is telling me...

I think the author wants me to think...