Dear Parent/Carer 

Your child is now on Reading Band Red Tomato.  Thank you for encouraging your child to read.  

Targets 

• make sure it makes sense and sounds right  

• make the reading sound like talking – not like a robot 

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

• read words they know automatically 

• re-tell the story including all the main parts 

Always 

• if the reading doesn’t make sense ask them what they can do to fix it 

• if they get stuck say, ‘go back and try that again’ or ‘sound it out’