Dear Parent/Carer 

Your child is now on Reading Band Yellow Sunflower.  Thank you for encouraging your child to read.  

Targets 

• listen to their reading, notice mistakes and correct  

• use their eyes to follow the sentence  

• make the reading sound interesting using punctuation 

• relate the story to own experiences and other stories 

• retell the story in detail 

Always 

• say, ‘You said ... Did that sound right? Fix it!’ 

• show different ways to read new words: what word would fit, sound it out, chunk it – play/ing, to/day  

• ask, ‘What might happen next?’ 

• let them read the book again to make it sound smooth