Library

Burnham-On-Sea Library is open from:

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 10am-5pm
Wednesday & Saturday 10am-1pm

It is free to become a member- pop in and sign up!

Re-reading books to build fluency

Re-reading books is an important element to your child building up their reading fluency. Children, particularly on the Book Band Books, will benefit from reading a text more than once. The latest Reading Framework [The reading framework: teaching the foundations of literacy] supports this…

‘Practising to gain automaticity in decoding needs to focus on accuracy. This means children must first work out a word by sounding and blending. Most of them have to do this several times before they can read it accurately ‘at a glance’. Re-reading a text, therefore, gradually increases the number of words in it that they can read ‘at a glance’. Urging children to read at speed will not increase their fluency: they can read only at the speed they can decode.’

Please do not be afraid to keep hold of a book for your child to continue to practice, we are encouraging this!

Terminology

You may see the following words/phrases in your child’s reading diary… Here is a short round-up of what they may mean!

Segment- Breaking down the words into sounds.

Blend- The ability to put the sounds they have segmented together to form a word.

Pace- Speed at which the child reads.

Fluency- How accurately your child reads with pace.

Accurately- Reading with few errors.

Self-correction- Child going back and correcting themselves if the word they initially read does not sound correct.

Share a Story Sacks for KS1

I have created Share a Story Sacks for the children in Key Stage 1. This is to promote story sharing and reading at home!

How will it work?

Every week each Teacher in Key Stage 1 (Mrs Chrystall, Mrs Williams, Mr Fisher & Miss Berry) will choose 1 child who has really impressed them with their reading. The chosen child will take home the story sack on Friday and share the story with their family/friends over the weekend. The sack will then return to School on Monday.

Children are encouraged to share the story and enjoy it alongside their class bear and a tasty hot chocolate treat!

Please then fill in the story journal- your child might like to draw a character, write about their favourite part, review the story, link it to another they know or just write who they shared it with. Parents might need to support children with this. We are not expecting essays just a comment/photo to show it has been shared and enjoyed!

What’s inside the sack?

Class Teddy Bear

Hot Chocolate & Marshmallow Cone

Class Story

Reading Journal

Please take care of the sack and return it in the condition you had it in. Everything should be present other than the hot chocolate cone.

We would like to thank Tesco, Burnham-on-Sea for their kind donation of hot chocolate and marshmallows!