Literacy


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This Poetry Book contains a variety of poems at different levels. Each week your child will have one new poem or nursery rhyme added to their poetry book. Each weekend your child needs to read the poems in their book both new and old.

It is important to …


 * Ø listen to, as well as read interesting poems
 * Ø meet new words and sentence structures
 * Ø encourage your child to retell the poem
 * Ø think, feel and talk about the poems
 * Ø read the poems again and again
 * Ø join in together, take turns, have fun!

Feel free to finish off decorating the poem if we haven’t had time to finish it in class.

Thank you for your support. Tracey Galloway ||
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Your child will be bringing books home to read with you. With encouragement from home as well as from school your child will become a better reader.

Praise … Do not compare your child with another. Remember we are all individuals.

Do not expect your child to know and remember every word. Your child may use picture clues, sentence clues or initial letter clues to recognise a word.

Would you please see that the books are returned to school the following day.

Books may possibly come home 3 or 4 times. This helps with fluency, phrasing and intonation. Different levels of difficulty in their reading books serve different purposes in reading.

It is important to …
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Ø encourage your child to retell the story
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Ø think, feel and talk about the story
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Ø join in together, take turns

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Thank you for your support Tracey Galloway || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">

Please help your child in learning their spelling words each week. These words come from the errors they have made in their Essential Word test and sometimes from the errors in their story writing. Varying the learning activities from week to week will help you to keep the learning interesting.

Here are some ideas: ü Write out each word several times. ü Write each word in a sentence or a silly story or poem. ü Write a list of words that start the same way – this there, them ü Write a list of words that rhyme with the word – cat, rat, bat ü Find the words in the newspaper/magazine, cut them out and glue them in your book. ü Play hangman. ü Draw a picture with your spelling words hidden in it. ü Write your words in glue and stick sand or glitter over the top. ü Word Art (make your words look cool).

When checking if your child has learned a word, get them to write it down rather than testing them orally. They will be tested at school each Friday.

Happy Learning Tracey Galloway