This document provides parents with ideas to support early reading development at home, such as playing word games that focus on sounds, rhyming, and reading together to develop a positive view of reading. It directs parents to the school blog for additional reading videos and tips, such as allowing choice in texts, discussing texts beyond a child's reading level, and helping the child understand what was read by asking questions about sequencing, characters, and settings. Parents are also encouraged to help their child start interpreting pictures and read "between the lines" with adult support.

1. Early Level

2.  To give parents/guardians some ideas to
support reading and learning at home.
 To share resources available to
parents/guardians which are on the school
blog.

3.  Listening to sounds in words
 Beginning, middle and end sounds
 Rhyming
 Playing with sounds (games)
 Pure sounds

4.  Other useful reading videos will be available
to parents/guardians to view from today on:
 Mid Calder school blog
 Information for Parents
 Supporting Reading

5.  It is important to allow children to select their
own and a variety of texts (newspaper,
magazine, comics, recipe books, shopping
lists).
 It is also valuable to read to your child if they
choose a text that is beyond their own ability
and discuss it with them.
 Reading together encourages your child to
have a positive view of reading.

6.  It is important that the reading focus is not
always on fluency and reading with
expression.
 There should also be an understanding of
what has happened in the text (sequencing,
retelling, characters and setting).

7.  It is also important to encourage children to
read between the lines of the text.
 At Early Level, children would need support
and modelling from an adult as it is a difficult
skill develop at this stage.
 Pictures are the main focus for developing
this skill.