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Ideas for supporting children at home with reading • Children love to share books with each other and with you. •Retell using drama/role play. • Take trips to the library to choose books. • Plays are great ways of interacting through a book as each person can play a different character. • Share comics/magazines and so on – it doesn’t always have to be a book! • Look for and share books on topics that you know your child is interested in – e.g. insects, cookery or sport. •Revisit familiar books •Share the reading! • Take turns to read a sentence or a page each • Agree with your child that you will read each sentence and they will read the final word. • Get your child to read the parts for certain characters, or speech bubbles/labels etc and you read the rest of the text • Be explicit about how you work out unfamiliar words • Lots of praise – try not to overcorrect • Questioning and talking about words in the environment • Pointing out print in the environment such as Morrison’s, Tesco’s etc
