Dear Parent/Carer 

Your child is now on Reading Band Blue Bird.  Thank you for encouraging your child to read.  

Targets 

• read longer and more complicated books 

• be able to say why they like or don’t like the book 

• take turns to talk about a wide range of stories 

• notice and fix mistakes quickly 

• re-read to make it make sense and sound like talking  

Always 

• ask, ‘What’s your favourite part?, ‘Why?’ 

• say, ‘Check it’, ‘Does it make sense and look right?’ 

• tell them to go back and try it again to check 

• show how punctuation changes the way you read