SUPPORTING YOUR CHILD’S LEARNING in ENGLISH
- Listen to your child read their reader book each night and ensure that all books are returned to school, in the folder, each day.
- Engage your child in authentic and meaningful conversations with your child. Ensure they are looking at and listening to you as this happens.
- Correct, by modelling, any incorrect pronunciation and grammatical structures when speaking with your child.
- Review high frequency words (sent home in a ziplock bag), daily.
- Engage in rhyming songs and games with your child. E.g. ‘hat and cat’, ‘tail and whale’ are rhyming words because they sound the same at the end.
- Draw your child’s attention to words that begin with the same initial sound. E.g. leg and lump.