Every week, parents in Receptionreceive a home learning letter containing focus sounds and words from the week’s learning with suggested games and activities to embed them. In this section Sentence-by-sentence reading slows the text right down and allows you to demonstrate how to tie ideas together rather than skimming the surface. Model the way in which the text works before the children work in pairs using the same strategy. Chatter Books - children take ownership of the session under the guidance of the class teacher, participating in informal book talk activities such as recommending texts, drama and exploring authors and illustrators. The aim of the lesson is to foster an intrinsic love of reading whilst enhancing teacher knowledge of children's reading practices and preferences, so they can develop children's 'reading diets'.

The balance between short terms gains and long term viability means tough decisions will have to be made in the coming days, weeks, and months. In the short term, everything has to be set on avoiding relegation this season. With so many problems mounting, relegation and the loss of revenue that comes with it would be an absolute disaster. But in the long term, there’s a club and team to rebuild regardless of the division they end up in. You don’t always need to read the words in books. Looking at and talking about the pictures is a great way to encourage your child to enjoy books. If you speak a language other than English, talk about the pictures and story in your own language. We’re also expanding the early years Professional Development Programme, enabling 10,000 more practitioners to train in the latest communication and language teaching techniques. Time spent reading together is not just a great opportunity for parents and carers to bond with their children - it helps with brain development too, which is particularly important in the first two years of life.Attempts to ask the club for clarification on Joorabchian’s involvement were met with ‘no comment’, the only official line in the past being that Joorabchian is a personal acquaintance of Mr Dai’s. However, a source with knowledge of the situation has informed the Chronicle that they believe the agent is still heavily involved at Reading. I know people are quite critical of the EFL, but I know of quite a few people you wouldn’t want near a football club who they have proven to be undesirables and not managed to acquire the club, ironically including another person who was involved in an energy drinks company trying to take over Morecambe about six months ago. They are doing their best and operating within the parameters of their own constitution, but the EFL of 2023 is a far more robust organisation than the one of 2018 or 2019. There is a new team in town, and they take their role seriously, as we’ve seen at Reading with all the points deductions. TalkTalk I still have no Internet. Been 6 hours now and not one person has responded to me. I tried calling customer service and they told me they can't help and will send an engineer at my cost..... but no answers.

Familiarity with great books provides core book knowledge. This is the school’s Reading Spine; a mapped-out book curriculum that provides the basic entitlement to experience great literature (narrative, nonfiction and poetry). Picturebooks Introduction – read the text aloud fluently a number of times and ask the children to share first responses and ideas. Carry out initial work on vocabulary so that soon everyone can reread the text with basic understanding. Picture books can be an ideal place to begin to develop deep thinking about texts. Because words are accompanied by images, everyone will have something to say. Pictures make it seem simpler and so children gain confidence. I would suggest starting with: PEER is an acronym to help guide you through one possible example of the dialogic reading process. It works equally well with children of all ages, from young learners to their older siblings, and is even utilised in university settings.Meanwhile, the outgoing business has hardly been much better. The Reading academy continues to produce talented players at a remarkable rate but the club is not reaping the rewards this work warrants. Home learning - parents are expected to hear their child read daily even when they are fluent readers. There is guidance for parents in the Reading Records and weekly letters.Parents are encouraged to record all reading experiences in the Reading Record which are counted towards the half-term reading challenges. Do you like watching TED Talks? Here are 8 TED Talks About Reading and Books! TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking Many people love TED Talks, so I thought it would be great if I wrote a post that focused on TED Talks About Reading and Books. For those of you who read The Invisible Mentor Blog, you will notice that I started off 2019 with a bang writing about reading and books. Most of the blog posts so far are about reading more of the right book in 2019. The traffic on my blog went down substantially because I did not blog regularly in 2018. This year, my goal is to read more of the right books. But a goal that is more pressing, is to solve problems that my reading have about reading and books, and the books they need to read to accelerate their careers. The quotes state that Mr Dai watches every Reading game at home on Royals TV, but fans have heard little more than those 153 words from their club’s owner since he arrived and there have been no follow-up statements with more detail since. The NELI is a language programme for children in nursery and reception who are struggling with learning to talk and, as a result, are at risk of having trouble with reading. Extra support for parents and carers helping children to read:

explains the importance of systematic phonics teaching for older pupils who are at risk of failing to learn to read because they cannot decode well enough We can also explore ways in which we can make the points discussed in these meetings come alive with a bit of audio-visual, maybe including comment from a member of the club’s hierarchy. Mix and match the types of questions you ask - use all of the CROWD prompts at different times to keep things fresh and interesting. Through the Family Hubs programme, we’re funding local authorities to train early years practitioners to support parents in talking, playing and reading more with their children at home. Effective schools loiter with great books and texts. Once a child has spent time with Anthony Browne’s Voices in the Park, for example, working for a week or so considering the four characters’ viewpoints, the book becomes a frame of reference for exploration of other narratives. This enables pupils to discuss how texts can be seen from the author’s viewpoint, the narrator’s, and different characters’, as well as how different readers might view a text.

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Questioning – this might arise from you or the children. The most powerful questions are usually open-ended and lead into a meaty discussion based on careful rereading of the text. They could be built around literary concepts, e.g. What is your impression of the author’s viewpoint of the subject? Is the author biased and how do we know? How does the character’s emotional journey through the text link to the theme of sacrifice? Drama – use this to deepen and strengthen emotional engagement with the text. This might involve hot seating, freeze frame, and re-enacting a scene or interviews by journalists about key events. It can be helpful to use ‘one minute drama’ whereby the children perhaps say a sentence aloud with emotion, provide an action for a sentence, mime a section, chat with a partner in-role as characters, or conduct a phone call in-role about a key event. Jane Eyre (Bantam Classics) Cheaper by the Dozen (Perennial Classics) The Good Earth (Oprah's Book Club) The Power of Myth The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life The Way of Chuang Tzu (Second Edition) Tao: The Watercourse Way The Griffin & Sabine Trilogy: Griffen & Sabine/Sabine's Notebook/the Golden Mean (3 Volumes – No Slipcase, 1, 2, 3) The Company: A Novel of the CIA by Robert Littell (2002-04-22) Your mega summer reading list: 200 books recommended by TEDsters : This TED Talk list of book recommendations is a few years old now, but it is an impressive reading list. Some of them are definitely the right books to read. There are several classics on the list. This will get you started on your learning journey.

With older children, you might want to try and gear your questioning towards a more analytical approach. The older the children, the more complex lines of discussion can be had. Chances are, they’ll bring something different and interesting to the table, that could allow you to view the text in a new light too! Training the children how to have a good discussion also involves developing the following approaches. They should be ready to: Try to always have a book in your bag. Reading together can help pass the time on a long journey. It can be very calming and will help your baby recognise the sound of your voice.Why not get creative and help them design their own bookmarks with these Editable Bookmark Templates before starting? It will give them something lovely to mark their place in a book for when you return. Digital library services also provide access to online materials, including audiobooks and ebooks. You can find out more about digital library services and resources with Libraries Connected. W prompts - these are all the classic 'w' questions, like who, what, where, why, and when. These can be really useful when you want to target a specific element of the text, and are great for testing comprehension.