Reading at Home

Team Bennett absolutely love reading at school - whether it is reading with a friend, listening to a story, or reading with an adult. However, we are noticing that children are not reading as much as they could be at home.

The adults in Team Bennett read with every child of the class at least once a week to track their reading ability. However, reading is a skill that needs practising and is a skill that they will need for the rest of their lives. This means that the children should be reading at home as well as at school, otherwise they will not progress. Our reading policy at RAPS says children should be reading at home at least 4 times a week. This can include listening to your child read or reading with them and discussing what is happening in the text. 

The Literacy Trust says that reading with your child "has astonishing benefits for children: comfort and reassurance, confidence and security, relaxation, happiness and fun. Giving a child time and full attention when reading them a story tells them they matter. It builds self-esteem, vocabulary, feeds imagination and even improves their sleeping patterns." (National Literacy Trust, 2020)

When you read with your child please record this in their reading record. We would also ask that you make sure your child's reading book is in school every day so that we can read with them and track their reads. Can we also politely ask that you remind your children it is their responsibility to change their own books.