We collect 4 home readers on Monday and return them all on Friday.
Choose one book you really like the look of and read that one every night. Repeated readings of the same book improve your fluency!
Read another book each night as well as your repeated book.
Home Reader Questions
Here are some ideas for how to use Home Readers effectively with your child.
Recalling Events
1. What is the title of the text?
(Point to the title on the cover and the title page inside the cover)
2. Can you retell me the main parts of the story?
3. Who were the main characters? Did they do things they would normally do in real life?
4. Where was the story set?
What is the Purpose?
1. Who wrote this text / book?
(Point to author’s name on front cover)
2. Why do you think they wrote this book?
(To teach people, to make people laugh etc…)
3. Who would read this book?
(Children, Adults, Babies)
4. Did you learn anything new from tis book?
What did you learn?
Relating to your own experiences
1. Have you ever been to a place like the one in the story?
2. Have you ever met a person or animal like the one found in the story?
3. Have you read or watched a story like this one before?
4. Would you like to do something that happened in the story? Why?
Predicting
QUESTIONS 1&2 NEED TO BE ASKED BEFORE AND DURING THE READING
1. What do you think this story might be about?
(Look at the front cover and title)
2. What do you think might happen because of this?
(Choose an event during the story)
3. How else could the story have ended?
(Talk about different ways the story could have ended)
Searching the Text
1. Were there any groups of words that kept being repeated during the text? What were they?
2. Did you read any new words? How did you work out how to read them?
(Sounded them out, used the picture clues)
3. Were there any words that you thought were really tricky?
4. Were there any words written differently to others? Why do you think they were written this way?
(wiggly or thicker, bigger or smaller)
Looking at Pictures
1. Who illustrated / photographed this text?
(Point out the illustrator’s / photographer’s name on front cover)
2. What colours can you see in the pictures? Are they bright / dark?
3. Why do you think they chose these colours?
(If it is a scary story the colours might be dark etc…)
3. Choose a particular page in the book. Why do you think the picture is next to this text (writing)? What other picture or photograph could be placed on this page?
4. Is the background the same in any of the pictures?
Punctuation
1. Count how many full stops there are in the text.
2. Count how many capital letters there are in the text.
3. Count how many sentences there are in the text.
4. Find out if there are any question mars or exclamation marks in the text.
