Parents will often ask teachers what they can do to support their child at school and improve their child’s results. Teachers universally will tell them the most important thing they can do is to read to their child and later when they are able to, ensure their child reads for between ten and twenty minutes independently every day.
Reading is vital to increasing knowledge, improving concentration, developing critical thinking and increasing vocabulary and language skills. It is also important that children see their parents as Readers.
At school we support Reading in every class and have a dedicated Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) time after lunch for ten minutes. It is also an expectation that reading will happen at home and I would strongly endorse all parents to ensure quiet Reading time happens at home too. As a parent, it was always part of our bath, bed, book routine.
Books may be borrowed from the library and will be sent home by many grades as part of their Home Reading/homework routines.
