Reading at Home

Reading at Over St. John’s

Reading is a fundamental skill, used to stimulate children's imaginations and where they learn to acquire a love for books. Teachers promote and value reading as an enjoyable activity and a life skill. At Over St. John’s, we encourage the daily reading and sharing of books at home. We carefully monitor the children’s reading at home and encourage parents to be fully active and engaged with us in this in order to support their child’s ongoing development. 

Reading diaries are checked weekly by an adult in school and reading is rewarded through our school raffle ticket reward system. For each read recorded in their diaries, children will receive a raffle ticket.

This year, we shall be playing a game of

READOPOLY

This page is situated in your child’s reading diary with all the information that you need. Children will need to read at least four times over one week to receive a stamp and move around the Readopoly board. One square will be stamped for every four reads. For every four reads, the children will receive a special Readopoly token to put in our Key Stage prize jars, which will be drawn at the end of each term.

On the Readopoly board, there are special challenges for the children to complete when they reach the challenge square. The challenges are explained around the ‘Readopoly’ board. On this week, the challenge square will be stamped. If your child chooses to take part in this challenge, they will receive five tokens for the prize jar. Evidence of completed challenges must be sent to reading@overstjohns.cheshire.sch.uk

Reading at Home

Children will bring home two reading books.One book will match their current stage of reading and the other book will be one that the children have chosen for themselves to read and share.  All children are expected to read at least four times a week which should be a priority. It is important that a child enjoys their reading book and your child's class teacher will be happy to give advice on appropriate choices. Reading can take any of the following forms:

• Sharing a book together either from school or at home. These books initially may have no words and the children will be encouraged to make up a story based upon the visuals.
• Answer simple questions about stories they have read or have been read to them.