Dear Parent/Carer 

Your child is now on Reading Band Pink Flamingo.  Thank you for encouraging your child to read.  

Targets 

• understand stories make sense and sound right 

• find the title, turn the pages, start reading  on the left 

• read each word as they point to them 

• guess what might happen in a book 

• use what they know about letter sounds to read words 

Always 

• ask them about the story and talk about the pictures  

• say ‘Where do we start reading?’ 

• let them hold the book and turn the pages themselves 

• if they get stuck ask; ‘what would make sense?’ or say, ‘sound it out’ or ‘go back and try again’