Dear Parent/Carer
Your child is now on Reading Band Yellow Sunflower. Thank you for encouraging your child to read.
Targets
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listen to their reading, notice mistakes and correct
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use their eyes to follow the sentence
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make the reading sound interesting using punctuation
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relate the story to own experiences and other stories
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retell the story in detail
Always
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say, ‘You said ... Did that sound right? Fix it!’
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show different ways to read new words: what word would fit, sound it out, chunk it – play/ing, to/day
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ask, ‘What might happen next?’
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let them read the book again to make it sound smooth