So that your child maintains good progress in reading, we strongly encourage regular reading activities take place at home. Children enjoy being read to and with, so please make time in your busy schedules to help your child.

Listen to your child read as often as possible. Support them, praise great reading and help them further by asking questions about what they have read.
You reading to your child would be another valuable opportunity. By sharing a variety of texts and demonstrating your love of reading, it will interest your child. You could also play audio stories for them to listen to or show story videos. The internet contains a selection of these e.g. Julia Donaldson Stories and Story Line Online. Explore Youtube for more!

Please record in their reading diaries whenever reading at home takes place. It is important that children have their reading diaries and books at school every day.

Click on the link below for extra support and advice on how to improve your child’s reading:

Springboard: A Parent’s Little Guide to Helping Children Read

Spellings

This document has a fantastic selection of activity ideas which you can use to help engage your child with their weekly spellings. Frequent practise of the high frequency words which you received in the parent pack would also benefit from using these activities:

Fun spelling activity ideas!

Phonics

This video shows how to pronounce all the sounds your child will need to know for phonics:

Sounds Video

These phonics mats show some of the sounds your child has been learning, lots of word games linked to these sounds would benefit their learning:

Phase 2 Phonics Sound Chart

Phase 3 Phonics Sound Chart

Phase 5 Phonics Sound Chart

Check out some of these phonics game websites by clicking on the links:

Youtube provides lots of additional phonics songs and videos to support the learning of different sounds and reading and writing of words for each sound.

Literacy Games Websites

Maths Games Websites

Times Tables

Knowing and understanding how to count in 2s, 5s and 10s is an important skill, therefore lots of practise and reciting of counting up in multiples would benefit your child. The 2s 5s and 10s times tables are the next hugely important skills for your child to learn.

Here are a variety of video links to support times tables development:

2 times tables videos

5 times tables videos

10 times tables videos

Plus click here for lots of fun times tables games:

Times table games

More times table games

Once they are confident, try testing times tables out of order.

Also check out the following links for other learning websites: