Good afternoon and welcome to the Treasure
House reading information session.
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Please take a handout and take a seat.
Miss Drumm
26th February 2016
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Children in KS1 should read their individual
books every night.
Children in KS2 should be encouraged to read
a wide variety of texts.
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Children should read regularly at home.
KS1 children 20 minutes a day.
KS2 children, ideally at least 20-30 minutes a
day.
For children who have reading records, they
should be heard by an adult at home and
comments should be provided about how the
child has found the particular story/text.
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Get your child to do the work!
Encourage children to use the picture clues.
Encourage children to listen to the sentence
they have just read – does it sound right?
Allow the child to continue reading if they
make a mistake – can they self correct?
You can re-read the sentence as the child
read it. Can the child identify what went
wrong?
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What your child can do:
They can recognise and identify punctuation
and know what it means.
How you can support:
Demonstrate pausing for commas, using
expression for exclamation marks and
questions and changing your voice for speech
marks.
What your child can do:
 Children can be fluent for 2 – 3 word
phrasing
I am a
cat. I am a dog. I am a
frog.
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How you can support:
 Model reading with and without fluency.
 Ask your child, “Can you read this more
quickly?”
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Comprehension Questions
How is this character feeling?
What might happen next?
How would this feel if it happened to you?
Why do you think this happened?
What did you think about this?
Where did this take place?
When did this happen?
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Why did you choose this book?
Do you know any of the characters in this
story?
What do you do if you get stuck on a word?
Do you like this book? Why?
What books have you read at school?
Do you think you are a good reader?
Who is your favourite author?
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Children should be looking for the hidden
meaning in texts.
They should be considering the author’s use
of language-why did the author choose that
word to describe how the character was
feeling?
It is important that new vocabulary is
discussed with children.
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Setting
Character
Events
Who is the author?
What is an illustrator?
Where would we find the blurb?
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All children, including young children, should
be reading fiction and non-fiction books.
They can read poetry, comics, magazines,
catalogues, cereal packets, road signs, signs
in supermarket aisles…
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By the time children reach KS2, our aim is
that they are becoming more confident
readers, who read both for pleasure and for
information.
They should be developing a range of
strategies to work out unfamiliar words,
building on their phonic knowledge. Children
will also start to widen their reading
repertoire and comprehension skills,
so that reading supports their work
across the curriculum.
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Each classroom has a ‘reading corner’ which
encourages children to look at a wide variety
of fiction and non-fiction books.
We also like the children to read books
connected with the current class topic and
there will be books on display in each
classroom to that effect.
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Confident readers become confident and
expressive writers.
Through studying texts in depth, children
pick up a rich variety of language that they
can use in their own writing.
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Make the experience pleasurable…
Find a comfortable place.
Give plenty of time.
Avoid interruptions (no TV; siblings (unless
purposeful choice); cooking dinner; other
cars on the road etc)
Keep the time positive.
Stay clear of ‘competition’ and comparisons
with the ability of others.
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But my child is a reluctant reader…
Use different incentives.
Would they be more comfortable reading to a
sibling (older or younger)?
Use Treasure House reading comprehension
activities.
Let them choose what they read to you.
Have reading routines that work for your
family.
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As part of our drive to improve standards in English
across the school, we have invested in a new online
technology that allows teachers to set children
online activities to complete independently at home.
These activities include: comprehension,
composition, punctuation and spelling.
Children will still need to continue to read their
individual reading books daily.
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The idea of the Treasure House resource is to
enable children to read a short text and
answer questions related to it in order to
enhance their comprehension skills.
Children should be encouraged to read the
text themselves with adult support if
necessary.
They can read the text aloud and have a
discussion about any new vocabulary.
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The homework activities will include
comprehension, grammar, spelling and
punctuation tasks.
These will provide extra practise for new
spelling/grammar rules that the children have
learnt in class and will provide examples for
the children before they complete the activity.
An example of spelling practise can be seen above.
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Teachers will set this as a homework activity for your
child.
 Collins Connect activities are available at
https://connect.collins.co.uk
To log in click on the link above and select ‘student.’
Enter the school name in the box that appears.
You will then be asked to enter in some information
about your child – usually date of birth, first letter of
surname and year group. Occasionally it will ask for a
password. This password is the same as your child’s
Mathletics password.
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We appreciate your continued support and
hope that the children enjoy this new
homework resource.
Thank you for attending today’s session.