Home Learning

Reading at Home

Reception and KS1

The following video shows you can help your child when they are Early Readers (beginning to read).

At Beechcroft, we use SoundsWrite to teach children to read and write.  Here is a link to a free course on how to support your child with reading and writing.

How do we use 'decodable readers'?

Your child will be using 'decodable readers' at school, and bring them home to read.

These are books that enable your child to practise the sounds and spellings that they are learning. Most of the words are words that they can decode because they contain spellings they have already learnt.

When your child reads these books to you, please let them have a go at reading all of the words by themselves. Sometimes, your child may need help with a word, but before you step in, please give them a few seconds to work it out for themselves.

If your child gets stuck, a great prompt to use is: 'Say the sounds (pointing to each of the ‘sounds’ in the word) and read the word' (slide your finger along, under the whole word).

You can also ask your child questions about the stories they read to you.

Some of the words in these 'decodable books' might contain spellings your child hasn't learnt yet. At the back of the book, you'll see a list of the words that your child might need help with. When your child comes to one of these words in their book, simply read it for them. If the word was 'the' and your child didn't know how to read that word, you could simply point to the word and say: 'This is 'the', just say 'the' here.

Times Table Rockstars

Times Table knowledge is essential to being good at maths.  At Beechcroft, we use TT Rockstars for our Home Learning.