Reading at Portsdown

Reading is one of the most important skills your child will learn at primary school. With your support, we want every child to grow up to be a confident reader so that they can be successful at Portsdown Primary and beyond.

We use an exciting range of quality books in English sessions to get the children talking and learning new language. Themes of friendship, nature, feeling like an outsider, migration and conservation feature in many of the books we use to allow children to extend their knowledge of the world around them.

There is lots of good information to help you support your child on the 'BookTrust' website: https://www.booktrust.org.uk 

Here you will find good advice about sharing books together, reading aloud to your child or supporting your child if they are not enjoying reading at home.

Top Tips for Reading at Home:

• Little and often is best
• Make books part of your bedtime routine
• Find things to read that they enjoy
• Visit your local library
• Read to your child as well as listening to them read
• Talk about the book together
• Use phonics (letter sounds), picture clues and thinking about what the book is about to help work out unfamiliar words

If your child is struggling with reading or you're not sure how to support them, please pop in and see us. Helping your child to be a good reader is one thing that you can do that will really make a difference to how successful they are at school. 

Little Wandle Letters and Sounds