Week 1 Lesson 3

Reading - All About Me: How I Am Growing Up

 

OBJECTIVES:

To know some ‘good reading’ habits.

To read aloud with increased accuracy, fluency and expression.

RESOURCES:

Laptop, PC or tablet | Pencils | Pens | Max is Brave Phrases | Good Reading Habits 

VOCABULARY:

reading | story | like | dislike | author | phrase | storyteller | habit

phoneme | grapheme | PGC | sound | letter | blend | segment | capital letter

 

WhatGetReady.png What to Get Ready

Before today’s lesson, watch the YouTube video of story Max the Brave and have it ready to watch with your child in the lesson.

WATCH - Max the Brave (YouTube) Links to an external site.

Print out the Download Max is Brave Phrases

document or have it ready to view on your laptop or device. Print out the Download Good Reading Habits document.

Introduction Icon.png Introduction

Watch the YouTube video of story Max the Brave by Ed Vere.

WATCH - Max the Brave (YouTube) Links to an external site.

When you have watched the video, ask your child to think about how the storyteller makes the story enjoyable to listen to. Notice that she reads groups of words in ‘phrases’, without big gaps between them.

Ask your child to read the short phrases from Download Max the Brave Phrases

like a storyteller.

 

Reading Skills

 

Glossary Icon.png Developing Reading Skills

Show your child the printed document Download Good Reading Habits

. Do they know what a ‘habit’ is? If not, explain that habits are things we do regularly to help us to achieve something we want to achieve. These habits are designed to help us to be good readers and we should try to do them regularly.

Read through the habits on the sheet. Are there any that your child thinks they do already? Are there any that they think would be challenging?

Tell your child that this sheet needs to become a poster for them to put up either in their learning space or their bedroom to remind them of their Good Reading Habits. To make it into a poster, tell your child that they need to make it eye-catching. Their task is to decorate the poster with colourful illustrations. These could be related to reading and to the nine habits listed.

While your child decorates their poster, talk to them about how these Good Reading Habits could become part of their everyday routine.

You could ask, for example:

  • ‘When would be a good time for me to listen to you read and you to listen to me read?’
  • ‘Are there any other people you would like to read aloud to, or that you would like to read aloud to you?’
  • ‘How could we remember to take a book with us when we go out?’

When your child has finished their poster, stick it up somewhere they will see it regularly and ask them which of the habits they would like to start working towards first. Make a plan for fitting one or more of these habits into your daily routine straight away.

In the next lesson, your child will be starting their own Reading Journal so there is no need to begin one today.