Reading information for parents

Please use the link below to visit the parents area of the Little Wandle website which gives lots of useful advise about how to support your children at home with reading. 

Little Wandle support for parents

Ask questions: When your child brings their reading practice book home, please find a quiet space if you can. Sit beside them and share the book between you. Give lots of encouragement as your child reads the book, and help them if they are stuck on a word (but do encourage them to use their sounds and sound out the word before reading it for them). In the back of the book there are suggested questions that you could ask your child about the story. For example: Turn to page 2. What is Mum doing at the start of the book?

Read more than once: Please do read the book more than once. The purpose of reading the same book more than once is to build fluency and confidence. They could read their book to other family members in order to further practise their skills, and to show off how good their reading is getting! 

Enjoy a story: We would also like you to read the library book your child brings home  (and/or books from home) with them. This is their opportunity to enjoy rich storytelling and develop their lifelong love of reading. Again, find a quiet spot if you can, and make this experience enjoyable. Can the two of you make up voices for the characters, make predictions about what will happen next, or make up alternative endings for the stories? You can include as many family members in this experience as you like.

These books will come home once a week, and should be returned the following week on the agreed day. 

In Year 1, shared reading books are sent home on a Monday and collected the following Monday.

Reading practice books are sent home on a Wednesday and collected the following Monday.

Please record all reading at home in your childs reading record. This should be done daily.