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    This document provides guidance for parents on how to have meaningful discussions about stories when reading with their children. It recommends reading together for just 10 minutes per day and suggests asking questions to support different reading skills, such as retrieving information, making inferences, predicting outcomes, and evaluating vocabulary choices. A variety of question types are outlined to help children understand characters and events as well as the author's intent. The goal is to make reading time an enjoyable experience that boosts comprehension and long-term benefits for children.

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    This document provides guidance for parents on how to have meaningful discussions about stories when reading with their children. It recommends reading together for just 10 minutes per day and suggests asking questions to support different reading skills, such as retrieving information, making inferences, predicting outcomes, and evaluating vocabulary choices. A variety of question types are outlined to help children understand characters and events as well as the author's intent. The goal is to make reading time an enjoyable experience that boosts comprehension and long-term benefits for children.

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    This document provides guidance for parents on how to have meaningful discussions about stories when reading with their children. It recommends reading together for just 10 minutes per day and suggests asking questions to support different reading skills, such as retrieving information, making inferences, predicting outcomes, and evaluating vocabulary choices. A variety of question types are outlined to help children understand characters and events as well as the author's intent. The goal is to make reading time an enjoyable experience that boosts comprehension and long-term benefits for children.

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    Hello KS2

    Reading with your child now can have long-lasting benefits for their future
    and there are lots of simple ways that you can help your child get more out of
    reading a story. In partnership with Twinkl, we’ve put together this useful leaflet
    to help you make the most out of sharing a story together. The great news is that
    reading together for JUST 10 MINUTES a day can make all the difference. It should
    be a fun experience for both of you so simply use this as a guide for discussing the
    exciting events that are unfolding within the pages of the book. Have fun!
    SPONSORED BY

    IN ASSOCIATION WITH

    STRIVE to make your child a more COMMENTARY


    The following questions will help your child to
    confident reader by following these discuss the contents of a paragraph/story and
    easy strategies... compare events and characters:
    • Compare one character to the other. How are they
    SUPPORT: Give your child lots of positive different or similar?
    praise, support and encouragement before, • Why might someone choose to read this book?
    after and during reading. • How has the character changed during the story?
    INFERING
    TELL: Can your child tell you what they
    The following questions will help your child hunt for
    think will happen next? clues in a story about how someone might be feeling
    RETRIEVE: Can your child retrieve or why something is happening:
    information from the text if you ask questions? • What does … think/feel about …? What makes you
    think that? Give evidence for your opinions.
    INFER: Can your child use clues from the • How was … different after …?
    text (infer information) to say how someone • What impression do we get about …? Why?
    is feeling or why something might happen? PREDICTING
    VOCABULARY: Can your child discuss why The following questions will help your child to see
    the future and predict what might happen using
    the author used certain vocabulary in a text?
    clues in the story:
    EVALUATE: Can your child evaluate what • Who is on the front cover? What is in the
    they have read: Did they enjoy what they background? How might these details give us clues
    read? Why or why not? about the content of the book?
    • Based on what you know about the character/event,
    Asking your KS2 child questions as you read what do you think will happen next in the story?
    together at home is an essential tool to help • The character is in a tricky situation. What will the
    them develop a deeper understanding of a character do next? What would you do? Why?
    text. Here are some easy ways that you can AUTHOR INTENTIONS
    ask different types of questions about what The following questions will help your child to spot
    your child has read: ambitious vocabulary and description and to see how
    the words and phrases used by an author can add to
    VOCABULARY
    the meaning of the story:
    The following questions will help your child look
    • Can you spot a word/phrase that tells us … is feeling
    at how authors have chosen to use certain words
    anxious? Angry? Delighted?
    and phrases:
    • How has the author’s choice of words created a
    • What does this word tell us about the character/
    feeling of tension? Suspense? Happiness?
    setting/atmosphere?
    • Why did the author use the word … to describe …?
    We hope this has helped you to get the most out of
    • Can you find a word in the text that means the
    sharing a story with your child. For a list of great
    same as …?
    books to read together for all ages, find the nation’s
    RETRIEVING top 100 stories to share @ worldbookday.com.

    Happy reading!
    The following questions will help your child to go
    into a story and retrieve the facts:
    • Where/when is the story set?
    • What are the names of the characters in the
    book? Describe them.
    • What did … do when …? What happened when?

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