Year R - Supporting your child with reading at home this summer.

At Southborough School our children use and build their phonic knowledge every day. Your support over the summer holidays can help your child maintain and embed this knowledge, helping them make a confident start to Year 1.  

To help you to support your child:

1).  Sheets of Set 1 and Set 2 sounds are being sent home in book bags on Thursday 18th July. These can be cut up to create sound flashcards which can be used to practise individual sounds or create words to practise blending. See the PDF of games suggestions at the bottom of the page.

2). Fred the Frog Films - click on the relevant PDF at the bottom of the page to access fun, short films for:

• Each of the Set 1 sounds (25 single sounds plus ch, th, sh, qu, ng, nk, ck)
• Each Set 2 sound (ay, ee, igh, ow, oo, oo, ar, or, air, ir, ou, oy)  

In addition, you can:

3). Read to your child.

Read books that are appropriate to your child’s age but beyond their reading ability. This can help build their love of reading and provides a more exciting and detailed story line to chat about, helping to develop their comprehension skills. You can ask questions such as: 

 - What colour was the boy's hat? Where did they see the duck?

- Why was the puppy sad?

- What do you think will happen on the next page?

The following websites provide great ideas for books appropriate to your child’s age which could be requested from your local library.

https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/our-recommendations/

https://www.thereaderteacher.com/reception

https://wordsforlife.org.uk/

4). Visit your local library and join the Marvellous Makers Summer Reading Challenge.

Southborough and Tunbridge Wells have great childrens' libraries, both of which are participating in the Summer Reading Challenge. See the details at https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/#library