BEFORE - Activate prior knowledge by asking a question (choose one)
- What happened last time we were reading this?
- What do you know about this topic?
- What happened in the last chapter?
- What have you learned about... at school?
- Do you remember when we watched... and found out about...?
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DURING - Encourage your child to develop fluency by:
- Reading with expression – say it like you mean it. For example, read this sentence aloud but with emphasis on different words: ‘I never said she walked home.’
- Making the punctuation audible – let me hear the full stop. For example, use the commas to pause for effect: ‘I looked, I turned, and I ran.’
- Re-reading difficult passages or parts they stumbled on – read it again.
- Working out what an unfamiliar word means by reading the rest of the sentence and looking for clues.
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AFTER - Summarise and make predictions by asking a question (choose one)
- What is the main thing that happened or changed?
- What do you want/expect to happen next?
- Is there anything that we are still waiting to find out?
- Was there anything that particularly surprised or interested you?
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