Homework

Home Reading

Children benefit greatly from daily reading at home.  If you want your child to make good progress, it is essential that they practice their reading every day. Please do not make this a chore but a special time away from distractions where your child can be supported with prompting and praising. This reading time can include your child reading books they have brought home from school, poems, library stories  and  any other material that you may choose to read to them.

 

 

Try to ensure that your child gains an understanding of what has been read through questioning and by getting them to retell.  Every Monday to Thursday your child should bring home a new text they have read in class. They may require extra help with this book as it is at their guided reading level. They may also wish to bring home other books from their browsing boxes. Please sign their notebook after listening to them read, in order to show the home learning has been completed. Feel free to add any comments into their reading notebook as a means of communicating with me.

SPELLING

Make word writing fun!

  Our spelling will be based on the words the children are using in their own writing. During our literacy program we also  aim to develop our understanding of words, word families, endings and spelling patterns.

 To have your child feeling successful in learning words is paramount, so the maximum number of words will be 5, with some children just starting with two or three to learn.  These words will be written in the back of their notebook. It will benefit your child if you help them to undertake activities at home with these words.

Activities could include :

· Making flashcards

· Looking for the words in home readers

· Writing the words out using a variety of mediums, chalk, in the sand, with a water bottle…

· Writing the word on scrap paper then cutting it up and remaking it.

· Play Hang man with the words.

· Using dough to make the words.

• Putting the  words into spellingcity.com and undertaking a variety of online learning activities with them.

  

  Playdough words

 

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  Writing our words on the concrete with chalk

Many young children prefer to learn in tactile and kinesthetic ways  ( with movement) so be creative.

Thank you in advance for your efforts at home .