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SKILLS NEEDED FOR READING
and activities which help develop those skills
wanting to read Understanding that books and stories are fun and are interesting
Borrow books from the library and share books and stories with your child - read aloud as often as you can to your child - go for variety - funny books, fairy tales, tales from other lands, adventure stories, historical stories, poems and rhymes - the list is endless! - so is the enjoyment and sharing books with your child will do more than anything else to make her/him want to read.
language skills Being able to talk about everyday experiences and about pictures and stories
Shared talking about anything and everything, doing the shopping, going to the park, what happened on the T.V. programme, what will happen at the weekend.
listening skills Awareness of sound - especially sounds in words
Games such as "I Spy", sound lotto, "Simon Says".
looking skills Awareness of what is the same and what is different, awareness of detail.
Games such as picture snap, picture lotto, picture dominoes, snap with playing cards, number lotto, dominoes
sequencing Understanding of order
Jig-saw puzzles board games such as Ludo, Sorry, Monopoly etc.
memory Memory for sounds, pictures, shapes
Games such as pelmanism (pairs), snap, "I went on holiday and I took..." "I went to the zoo and I saw..."
Check out our "do's and don'ts for parents" or look at a paired reading scheme we have initiated at "Paired Reading". Also check out advice to parents from the National Literacy Trust.