Helping children at home

1. USEFUL
TIPS TO
HELP
YOUR
CHILD AT
HOME

2. LITERACY TIPS FOR
READING AND
WRITING

3. • Story-telling
• Wordless picture books

4. • Making picture books
• Create writing
opportunities. E.g
shopping lists,
reminders, greeting
and birthday cards
and thank you notes
• Story/book
summaries

5. READING
Ask inference and deduction questions
• How do you think the character was
feeling?
• How can you change the story ending?
• What do you think is the main message of
the text or story
• Who were the main characters names?

6. NUMERACY TIPS

7. Everyday Math
• counting items bought after shopping.
• reading and adding numbers on car number
plates when driving.
• looking out for shapes around them.

8. Ask investigative questions
• how could we measure this?
• how do we find half?
• what is the best way to share this?
• finding change during shopping
Mental Math
• Times tables
• Number bonds
• Addition and subtraction facts.
• Multiplication and division facts.

9. TIPS FOR
FOUNDATION
SUBJECTS
• Discuss topics learnt each week.
• Give related topics to research on the
internet.

10. USEFUL WEBSITES
• www.mathisfun.com
• www.ixl.com
• www.gamequarium.com
• www.primarygames.com
• www.funbrain.com
• www.ictgames.com
• www. sheppardsoftware.com