| General Description
Transitional readers can recognise many words automatically and therefore read familiar texts fluently and with expression. They use a variety of ways to work out unknown words such as slowing down, re-reading, reading on and sounding out. Transitional readers change the way they read to suit different texts or purposes. |
- Read to your child regularly. Transitional readers still benefit from hearing ‘good’ readers. This is also an opportunity to share and discuss opinions about information presented in texts.
- Encourage your child to choose texts to read on a daily basis. Expose your child to a wide variety of texts and give encouragement to read new material, e.g. books by a new author, texts on different topics.
- Give encouragement and praise whenever your child chooses to read.
- Ensure your child sees other members of the family reading, and talking about their reading.
- Talk about characters, people, settings, plots, events and information found in texts.
- Encourage your child to discuss how characters or people are presented in texts, and make comparisons with people in real life.
- Encourage your child to express and justify their reactions to texts, and listen to the opinions of others.
- Point out and discuss words related to different topics and subjects, e.g. ‘perimeter’ in maths, ‘environment’ in science.
- Talk about how to find information in different texts, e.g. using the index, looking for headings.
- Support your child in completing research work.
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